ky

See also: -ký, .ky, KY, ký, kỳ, and Ky.

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English ky, from Old English cȳ (“cows”), plural of cū (“cow”). Cognate with West Frisian kij (“cows”), Dutch koeien (“cows”), German Kühe (“cows”), Danish køer (“cows”), Icelandic kýr (“cows”). More at cow.

Alternative forms

• kye

Noun

ky

1. (dialectal and Scotland) plural of cow

Derived terms

• kine

Etymology 2

Noun

ky (uncountable)

1. (UK, naval slang) Alternative form of kye (“cocoa”)
   • 2005, Patrick Halliday, Survival (page 24)

     I put on a big fanny of Ky, that is a straight-sided pot of cocoa for them returning.

Etymology 3

Abbreviation

ky or kyr

1. (metrology) Symbol for kiloyear, an SI unit of time equal to 10³ years.

Anagrams

• YK

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Albanian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *k̂(e)i, *k̂(i)i̯o (“this”). Cognate to Ancient Greek κῆνος (kênos, “that”), Latin cis (“this side, this way”), Old Norse hann (“he”), English he.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky/

Determiner

ky m

1. this

   Ky është libri im. — Ky libër është imi.

   This is my book. — This book is mine.

Declension

declension of ky

	singular			plural
	masculine	feminine		masculine	feminine
nominative	ky	kjo		këta	këto
accusative	këtë	këtë		këta	këto
genitive/dative/ablative	këtij	kësaj		këtyre	këtyre

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Cornish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kiː], [kəi]

Noun

ky m (plural keun)

1. (Standard Cornish) dog

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Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /kiː/
  • Conventional anglicization: ky

Noun

 m f

1. other, another

Usage notes

Though a noun in Egyptian, ky frequently describes another noun, standing before it in apposition, and it is therefore often best translated into English as a determiner.

ky is an old dual noun, but its ‘dual’ forms are used with singulars when in apposition.

Inflection

Declension of ky

	masculine	feminine
singular	—	—
dual	ky	, kt, kty
plural	, , , kjwj, kwj, kw	kt

By the end of Old Egyptian, the feminine plural fell out of use and the masculine plural became a general plural.

When ky stands alone rather than in apposition, it has a different plural form, kt-ḫt or kt-ḫj .

Derived terms

• ky-ḏd

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 64.
• Gardiner, Alan (1957) Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs, third edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, § 98, page 78

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Finnish

Noun

ky

1. Alternative form of Ky (“(initialism of) kommandiittiyhtiö”)

Anagrams

• YK

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Middle English

Noun

ky

1. Alternative form of kie