different between kye vs pye

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

Noun

pye (plural pyes)

1. Archaic spelling of pie (pastry food).

Anagrams

• YEP, yep

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French pied (“foot”). 

Noun

pye

1. foot

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Medieval Latin p?ca (“pie”), from Latin p?ca (“magpie”).

Alternative forms

• pie, peye

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pi?(?)/

Noun

pye (plural pyes)

2. pie (pastry dish)

Descendants

• English: pie
• Scots: pie
• Yola: pee

References

• “p?(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-18.

Etymology 2

From Old French pie, from Latin p?ca (“magpie”).

Alternative forms

• pie, peye, py, pi?e

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pi?(?)/

Noun

pye (plural pyes)

2. magpie (bird in the family Corvidae)
3. Someone who is cunning or wily.

Descendants

• English: pie

References

• “p?(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-18.