different between kie vs kife

English

Alternative forms

• kee
• kine
• ky, kye

Etymology

From Middle English ky, from Old English c? (“cows”), plural of c? (“cow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?/

Noun

kie

1. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) plural of cow

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Anagrams

• EIK, Ike, Kei

Esperanto

Etymology

ki- (interrogative and relative correlative prefix) + -e (correlative suffix of place)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kie/
• Hyphenation: ki?e
• Rhymes: -ie
• Audio:

Conjunction

kie (accusative kien)

1. where

Adverb

kie (accusative kien)

1. where

Derived terms

• kie ajn (“wherever”)

Usage notes

Like other interrogative and relative correlatives, kie can be combined with ajn, the adverbial particle of generality. Kie ajn thus means wherever.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• kye, ky, kyn, kyen, kun, kuin, ken, kein

Noun

kie

1. plural of cou

Descendants

• English: kine
• Yola: keene, keeine, khyne

Ter Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *ke.

Pronoun

kie

1. who

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English keye.

Noun

kie

1. quay

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

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Verb

kife (third-person singular simple present kifes, present participle kifing, simple past and past participle kifed)

1. (slang) To steal.

Anagrams

• Fike, Kief, fike, kief

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kif/
• Homophones: kif, kifent, kifes

Verb

kife

1. first-person singular present indicative of kifer
2. third-person singular present indicative of kifer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of kifer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of kifer
5. second-person singular imperative of kifer

Anagrams

• kief

Hausa

Verb

kif? (grade 4)

1. to turn something over
2. to overturn
3. to tip over, to capsize