kev

See also: Kev, keV, and KeV

Translingual

Symbol

kev

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Kanikkaran.

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Kanikkaran terms

Volapük

Noun

kev (genitive keva, plural kevs)

  1. cave, cavern

Declension

Declension of kev
Singular Plural
Nominative kev kevs
Genitive keva kevas
Dative keve keves
Accusative kevi kevis
Predicative1 kevu kevus
Vocative o kev o kevs
  1. Introduced in Volapük Nulik.

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[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, pages 80-1.
  1. ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010), Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Canberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 275.
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