kev

See also: Kev, keV, and KeV

Volapük

Noun

kev (nominative plural kevs)

1. cave, cavern

Declension

declension of kev

	singular	plural
nominative	kev	kevs
genitive	keva	kevas
dative	keve	keves
accusative	kevi	kevis
vocative 1	o kev!	o kevs!
predicative 2	kevu	kevus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only

White Hmong

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *kləuX (“road, way”). Cognate with Western Xiangxi Miao [Fenghuang] geud, Iu Mien jauv.

Possibly related to either Old Chinese 街 (OC *kreː, *kreː, “street, way”) or 道 (OC *[kə.l]ˤuʔ) (B-S), though whether via borrowing or via inheritance from a common source is unclear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ke˧˦/

Noun

kev (classifier: txoj (lengths), tsem (sections of road), ceg (sections or directions of a journey))

1. road, street
2. matters, business, affairs

   Koj muaj kev dab tsi? ― What is your business? What do you want?

Classifier

kev

1. used to nominalize the word it modifies, used to indicate "the way of ...": -ness

   kev mob kev tuag ― sickness and death

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, pages 80-1.