different between kye vs kie

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

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

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

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