kyy

kyy

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Kambaira terms

From Proto-Finnic *küü (compare Estonian küü), possibly from Proto-Uralic *kije (compare Erzya гуй (guj), Moksha куй (kuj), Hungarian kígyó), or alternatively an old clipping for kyykäärme (see the Proto-Finnic entry for more).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkyː/, [ˈk̟yː]
• Rhymes: -yː
• Syllabification^(key): kyy
• Hyphenation^(key): kyy

kyy

1. common European adder (Vipera berus, the only natural species of viper in Finland)
2. viper (Viperidae)

• kyykäärme

• “kyy”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• kiyy, kyyi, kyyin, kiyya, kiyyin

Inherited from Proto-Berber *kayy^[1] or *ḱăkk (“thou”).

Cognate with Tuareg kăy(y) (“thou”), Ghadames šăgg (“thou”), Zenaga kǝk(k) (“thou”), Awjila ku (“thou”), Sokna šik (“thou”), Nefusa šək (“thou”), and Siwi šəkk (“thou”), and Proto-Chadic, whence Hausa kai (“thou”).

kyy m (feminine kmm, Tifinagh spelling ⴽⵢⵢ, Arabic spelling كيّ)

1. you (second-person masculine singular free pronoun)

   كيّ كا ف تكّلغ، آ يلاهي.

   kyy ka f tkklġ, a Ylahi .

   it is only on You that I rely, o Lord.

• Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 2 f—l (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/2) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1262