kie

• kee
• kine
• ky, kye

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

• IPA^(key): /kaɪ/

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• Rhymes: -aɪ

kie

1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) Alternative spelling of kye, plural of cow
   • 1567, Ovid, “The Seconde Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC:

     And if thou zawest any kie come royling through this grounde,
     Or driven away, tell what he was and where they may be vownde.

• “kie”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• EIK, Ike, Kei

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈkie]
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• Rhymes: -ie
• Hyphenation: ki‧e

kie (accusative kien)

1. where

   Tie li trovis post unuhora promenado kaj pridemandado la ponton, kie li trovos sian feliĉon.

   There he found, after one hour of walking and interrogating, the bridge, where he would find his happiness.

kie (accusative kien)

1. where

• kie ajn (“wherever”)

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

• kye, ky

kie

1. plural of cou

• ⇒ Middle English: kyne, ken, kein, kien, kiin, kuin, kun, kyen, kyn
  • English: kine
  • Yola: keeine, keene, keéne, khyne, kyne, keyen

From Proto-Uralic *ke.

kie

1. who

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

From Middle English keye, from Old French kay, cail.

• IPA^(key): /kiː/

kie

1. quay
   • 1867, “JAMEEN QOUGEELY EE-PEALTHE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 110, lines 7-8:

     'choo'd drieve aam aul awye to Kie o' Cress Farnogue, an maake aam cry, 'Rotheda Palloake !' "

     I would drive them all away to the quay of Cross Farnogue, and make them cry, 'Rotten Palluck !' "

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 50