# ky
## Translingual
### Symbol

ky
* (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Kyrgyz.

## English
### Etymology 1

From Middle English ky, from Old English cȳ (“cows”), plural of cū (“cow”). Cognate with West Frisian kij (“cows”), Dutch koeien (“cows”), German Kühe (“cows”), Danish køer (“cows”), Icelandic kýr (“cows”). More at cow.

#### Alternative forms

* kye

#### Noun

ky
* (dialectal and Scotland) plural of cow

##### Derived terms

* kine

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

ky (uncountable)
* (UK, naval slang) Alternative form of kye (“cocoa”)
** 2005, Patrick Halliday, Survival, page 24:I put on a big fanny of Ky, that is a straight-sided pot of cocoa for them returning.

### Etymology 3
#### Symbol

ky
* (metrology) Symbol for kiloyear, an SI unit of time equal to 10$^3$ years.

##### Related terms

* kyr

### Anagrams

* YK, Yk, Yk., yk

## Albanian
### Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *ka-ei, based on a pronominal element *ka and a demonstrative (see ai).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ky/

### Determiner

ky m
* this
    Ky është libri im. — Ky libër është i imi.
       This is my book. — This book is mine.

#### Related terms

* kjo

### References

* ↑ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “ky”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 208

## Cornish
### Alternative forms

* (Standard Written Form) ki

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [kiː], [kəi]

### Noun

ky m (plural keun)
* (Standard Cornish) dog

### Mutation
## Egyptian
### Pronunciation

* (modern Egyptological) IPA: /kiː/
** Conventional anglicization: ky

### Noun

m f
* other, another [since the Pyramid Texts]

#### Usage notes

Though a noun in Egyptian, ky frequently describes another noun, standing before it in apposition, and it is therefore often best translated into English as a determiner.
ky is an old dual noun, but its ‘dual’ forms are used with singulars when in apposition.

#### Inflection

By the end of Old Egyptian, the feminine plural fell out of use and the masculine plural became a general plural.

#### Derived terms

* ky-ḏd
* ky-zp
* kt-st

#### Descendants

* Coptic: ⲕⲉ- (ke-), ⲕⲉ (ke), ⲕⲉⲧ (ket), (plural) ⲕⲟⲟⲩⲉ (kooue)

### Noun

m
* a kind of monkey

#### Derived terms

* kyt

### References

* Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 110.4, 110.7–112.6
* Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 285
* James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 64.
* Gardiner, Alan (1957) Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs, third edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, § 98, page 78
* Junge, Friedrich (2005) Late Egyptian Grammar: An Introduction, second English edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, page 61

## Finnish
### Noun

ky
* Alternative form of Ky (“(initialism of) kommandiittiyhtiö”)

### Anagrams

* YK

## Hupa
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kʲʰ/

### Letter

ky (upper case Ky)
* A letter of the Hupa alphabet, written in the Latin script.

## Lutuv
### Pronunciation

IPA: [kɯ̄ɯ̄]

### Verb

ky
* to dry up

### References

* Amanda Bohnert, Kelly Harper Berkson, Sui Hnem Par (2022) “Vowel Sounds in Hnaring Lutuv”, in Indiana Working Papers in South Asian Languages and Cultures‎, volume 3, number 1

## Mam
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kʲ/

### Letter

ky (uppercase Ky)
* A letter of the Mam alphabet.

## Middle English
### Noun

ky
* Alternative form of kie