kev

See also: Kev, keV, and KeV

Volapük

Noun

kev (nominative plural kevs)

  1. cave, cavern

Declension
declension of kev
singular plural
nominative kev kevs
genitive keva kevas
dative keve keves
accusative kevi kevis
vocative 1 o kev! o kevs!
predicative 2 kevu kevus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

White Hmong

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *kləuX (“road, way”).[1] Cognate with Western Xiangxi Miao [Fenghuang] geud, Iu Mien jauv.

Possibly related to either Old Chinese 街 (OC *kreː, *kreː, “street, way”) or 道 (OC *[kə.l]ˤuʔ) (B-S), though whether via borrowing or via inheritance from a common source is unclear.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ke˧˦/

Noun

kev (classifier: txoj (lengths), tsem (sections of road), ceg (sections or directions of a journey))

  1. road, street
  2. matters, business, affairs
    Koj muaj kev dab tsi? ― What is your business? What do you want?

Classifier

kev

  1. used to nominalize the word it modifies, used to indicate "the way of ...": -ness
    kev mob kev tuag ― sickness and death

References
  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, pages 80-1.
  1. Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 275.
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