different between bye vs kye

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Homophones: bi, buy, by

Etymology 1

Variant form of by, from Old English b? (being near).

Noun

bye (plural byes)

1. The position of a person or team in a tournament or competition who draws no opponent in a particular round so advances to the next round unopposed, or is awarded points for a win in a league table; also the phantom opponent of such a person or team.

   Craig's Crew plays the bye next week.

2. (cricket) An extra scored when the batsmen take runs after the ball has passed the striker without hitting either the bat or the batsman.
3. (obsolete) A dwelling.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Gibson to this entry?)

4. (obsolete) A thing not directly aimed at; something which is a secondary object of regard; an object by the way, etc.

   • The Synod of Dort in some points condemneth, upon the by, even the discipline of the Church of England.

5. (card games) A pass.

Derived terms

• (cricket): leg bye

Etymology 2

Shortened form of goodbye.

Interjection

bye

1. (colloquial) Goodbye.

Derived terms

• tatty bye

Descendants

• ? Greenlandic: baj
• ? Faroese: bei

Translations

Etymology 3

Alternative forms.

Preposition

bye

1. Obsolete spelling of by

Noun

bye

1. Obsolete spelling of bee

Anagrams

• Bey, Eby, bey

Afrikaans

Noun

bye

1. plural of by

French

Etymology

From English bye

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baj/

Interjection

bye !

1. bye

   Allez bye ! À la revoyure.

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From English bye

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baj/

Interjection

bye

1. bye, goodbye

Synonyms

• alvida
• orevwar

Middle English

Noun

bye

1. A ring or torque; a bracelet.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VII:

     And Kynge Arthure gaff hir a ryche bye of golde; and so she departed.

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²by?.?/

Noun

bye f or m (definite singular bya or byen, indefinite plural byer, definite plural byene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by byge

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• bya, bøya, bøye

Etymology

From Dutch bui.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²by?.?/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

bye f (definite singular bya, indefinite plural byer, definite plural byene)

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Derived terms

References

• “bye” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Yola

Alternative forms

• buye

Etymology

From Middle English boye.

Noun

bye

1. boy

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English ky, kye, from Old English c? (“cows”), plural of c? (“cow”). Cognate with Dutch koeien (“cows”), German Kühe (“cows”), Danish køer (“cows”), Icelandic kýr (“cows”). More at cow.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?/

Noun

kye

1. (archaic or dialectal) plural of cow
   • 1836, Joanna Baillie, Witchcraft, Act 1

     Ay, that I do, to my cost. She and her black cat, too, live owre near my milk kye, Brindle and Hawky gi' but half the milk they should gi', and we wat weel whare the ither half gangs to.

   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 23:

     devil the move would the factor at Meikle House make to […] mend the roof of the byre that leaked like a sieve on the head of Mistress Munro when she milked the kye on a stormy night.

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• ki
• ky

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?/

Noun

kye (uncountable)

1. (Britain, naval slang) Cocoa (the drink).
   • 2013, David Arnold, Hursey in Conflict: A Story of Love and Victory (page 73)

     Then he walked back to the wheelhouse. Guido arrived with three cups of kye and a plate of hot buttered toast.

Etymology 3

From Korean ?(?) (gye).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kje?/

Noun

kye (plural kyes)

1. A Korean fundraising meeting.

Anagrams

• Key, key

Middle English

Noun

kye

1. Alternative form of kie

Scots

Etymology 1

From Old English c?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kae/

Noun

kye

1. plural of coo

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?j/

Noun

kye (plural kyes)

1. (South Scots) a key