kī

From Proto-Semitic *kV- (like, in the manner of). Cognate with Arabic كَـ (ka-) and Biblical Hebrew כְּ־ (kə-).

• IPA^(key): /kiː/

kī (from Old Assyrian/Old Babylonian on)

1. (interrogative) how?

   𒆠 𒈠𒍢 [kī maṣi?] ― ki ma-ṣi ― how many/how much?

   𒆠𒄿 𒀀𒈾 𒍣𒊑𒅀 𒆷 𒋫𒀠𒆷𒅗𒄠

   [kī ana ṣērīya lā tallakam]

   ki-i a-na ṣe₂-ri-ia la ta-al-la-ka-am

   how does it happen that you're not coming to me?

   𒆠𒄿 𒄩𒉈 [kī ḫabil!] ― ki-i ha-bil ― How has he been wronged! (= What a pity!)

• kē, akī, akē

kī (from Old Akkadian on)

1. as, like, in the manner of, according to

• kē, akī, akē

• “kî”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)‎^[1], Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1956–2011
• Black, Jeremy; George, Andrew; Postgate, Nicholas (2000), “kī”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, via the electronic Babylonian Library

IPA^(key): /ˈkiː/, [ˈtiː]

From Proto-Polynesian *tii (“ti plant”), from Proto-Oceanic *jiʀi (“ti plant”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *siʀi (“shrub of the genus Cordyline or Dracaena”).

kī

1. ti (Cordyline fruticosa)

From Proto-Polynesian *tii (“throw; spurt”).

kī(transitive)

1. to shoot
2. to aim
3. to squirt
4. to blow from the mouth, to spit
5. (Kauaʻi) to travel fast, to hurry

From English key.

kī

1. key

From English tea.

kī

1. tea

• kī in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.

kī

1. Rōmaji transcription of キー

• IPA^(key): /ki³³/

kī

1. (Patsho) live
2. (Patsho) state of having something

From Proto-Finnic *küü.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkiː/, [ˈkiː]

kī

1. grass snake, Natrix natrix

   Synonym: vie’dūška

• Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “kī”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎^[2] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra

• IPA^(key): /kiː/

Inherited from East Polynesian. Compare Rapa Nui kī, Hawaiian ʻī, Tahitian i.

kī

1. to say, speak, express, utter, call, mention, tell, designate

kī

1. saying, word

Inherited from Tahitic. Compare Tahitian ‘ī.

kī

1. (stative) to be full

Borrowed from English key.

kī

1. key

kī

1. to lock
2. (stative) to be locked

kī

1. grass