kne

Abbreviation of English Kankanaey or Kankanaey Kankanaëy.

kne

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Kankanaey.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Kankanaey terms

• knee, knew, knewe, know
• kneo, kneow (West Midland)
• cneo, cneow, cnoe (early West Midland)

Inherited from Anglian Old English cnēo (West Saxon Old English cnēow is continued in knew), from Proto-West Germanic *kneu, from Proto-Germanic *knewą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu (“knee”).

• IPA^(key): /kneː/, /kniu̯/
  • Rhymes: -eː
• IPA^(key): /knøː/, /knyu̯/ (West Midland)

kne (plural knes or knen)

1. The knee (or a similar joint in other animals)
2. A knee (bent timber for shipbuilding)
3. (figurative) A generation; a degree of descent.

• English: knee
• Middle Scots: kne, kney, knie
  • Scots: knee
• Yola: konnee

• “knẹ̄, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old Norse kné, from Proto-Germanic *knewą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu (“knee”).

kne n (definite singular kneet, indefinite plural kne or knær, definite plural knea or knærne, genitive knes)

1. (anatomy) a knee (joint in the leg)

• knelang

• “kne” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse kné, from Proto-Germanic *knewą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu (“knee”). Akin to English knee.

• IPA^(key): /kneː/

kne n (definite singular kneet, indefinite plural kne, definite plural knea)

1. (anatomy) a knee (joint in the leg)

• knea (verb)
• knelang

• “kne” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• enk, ken, nek