# kene
## English
### Adjective

kene (comparative kener or more kene, superlative kenest or most kene)
* Obsolete form of keen.

### Anagrams

* Enke, Keen, keen, knee, neek

## Chuukese
### Etymology

ke- +‎ -ne

### Pronoun

kene
* (command) you will (soon)

#### Synonyms

* kopwene

## Crimean Tatar
### Adverb

kene
* again

### References

* “kene”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

## Middle English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkeːn(ə)/

### Adjective

kẹ̄ne
* 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:
    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.

#### Descendants

* English: keen
* Scots: keen
* Yola: keen, keéne

### References

* ↑ “kẹ̄ne, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
* ↑ William Langland, George Economou, transl. (1996) “Passus XVI”, in William Langland’s Piers Plowman: The C Version: A Verse Translation (Middle Ages Series), Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 143.

## Tocharian B
### Etymology

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

### Noun

kene m
* melody, tune
* (poetry) meter

### Further reading

* 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

## Turkish
### Etymology

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

### Noun

kene (definite accusative keneyi, plural keneler)
* tick (arachnid)
    Synonym: sakırga

#### Further reading

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

### References

* 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