kene

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kene (comparative kener or more kene, superlative kenest or most kene)

1. Obsolete form of keen .

• Enke , Keen , keen , knee , neek

kene

1. alternative form of kenne ("to know")

ke- +‎ -ne

kene

1. (command) you will (soon)

• kopwene

kene

1. again

• "kene", in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

From Old English cēne ("keen, fierce, bold, brave, warlike, powerful; learned, clever, wise "),^[1] from Proto-Germanic *kōniz ("knowledgeable, skilful, experienced, clever, capable "), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh3- ("to know ").

• IPA ^(key): /ˈkeːn(ə)/

kẹ̄ne

1. 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:^[2]

     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.

• English: keen
• Scots: keen
• Yola: keen , keéne

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

kene m

1. melody, tune
2. (poetry ) meter

• 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

• IPA ^(key): /ceˈne/
• Hyphenation: ke‧ne

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish كنه (kene), from Proto-Turkic *kēne ("tick").

kene (definite accusative keneyi , plural keneler )

1. tick, a tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida

   Synonym: sakırga

• "kene", in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), "kene", in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük , a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), "kene1", in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2548
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), "kene", in Nişanyan Sözlük

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

kene (definite accusative keneyi , plural keneler )

1. alternative form of keme ("big rat")

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), "kene4", in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2548

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