kene

kene (comparative kener or more kene, superlative kenest or most kene)

1. Obsolete form of keen.

• Enke, Keen, keen, knee, neek

ke- +‎ -ne

kene

1. (command) you will (soon)

• kopwene

kene

1. again

• “kene”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

From Old English cēne (“keen, fierce, bold, brave, warlike, powerful; learned, clever, wise”),[1] from Proto-Germanic *kōniz (“knowledgeable, skilful, experienced, clever, capable”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeːn(ə)/

kẹ̄ne

1. keen
   • c. 1370–1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman; published as “Passus XVII”, in Walter W[illiam] Skeat, editor, The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman, together with the Vita de Dowel, Dobet, et Dobest, Secundum Wit et Resoun, by William Langland (about 1362–1393 A.D.): Edited from Numerous Manuscripts, with Prefaces, Notes, and a Glossary, [...] In Four Parts, part III (Langland’s Vision of Piers the Plowman, the Whitaker Text, or Text C; Richard the Bedeles; The Crowned King), London: Published for the Early English Text Society, by N[icholas] Trübner & Co., 57 & 59, Ludgate Hill, 1873, →OCLC, page 285, lines 82–85:[2]

     For men knoweþ þat couetise · is of ful kene wil, / And haþ hondes and armes · of a long lengthe, / And pourte is a pety þyng · apereþ nat to hus nauele; / A loueliche laik was hit neuere · by-twyne a long and a short.

     For men know well that Covetousness has a keen will / And a very long reach of hands and arms / And Poverty's just a tiny thing, doesn't even reach his navel, / And a good bout was never between tall and short.

   • c. 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knightes Tale” from The Canterbury Tales; published in A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, volume I (Containing Chaucer, Surrey, Wyatt & Sackville), London: Printed for Iohn & Arthur Arch, 23, Gracechurch Street; Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Co., [1795], →OCLC, page 17, column 2:

     Before hire ſtood hire ſone Cupido,
     Upon his ſhoulders winges he had two,
     And blind he was, as is often ſene;
     A bow he bare and arwes bright and kene.

     Before her stood her son Cupid
     Upon his shoulders, he had two wings
     And he was blind, as is often seen
     He bore a bow, and arrows bright and keen.

• English: keen
• Scots: keen
• Yola: keen, keéne

From Proto-Tocharian *kene (whence Tocharian A kaṃ), probably from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂n- (“to sing”).

kene m

1. melody, tune
2. (poetry) meter

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “kene”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 206

From Ottoman Turkish كنه (kene), from Proto-Turkic *kēne (“tick”). Cognate with Azerbaijani gənə, Kazakh кене (kene), Kyrgyz кене (kene), etc.

kene (definite accusative keneyi, plural keneler)

1. tick (arachnid)

   Synonym: sakırga

• “kene”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kene”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN