kane

Borrowed from Māori kāne (“man”).

kane (plural kanes)

1. A Polynesian or Maori man.

   Coordinate term: wahine

   • 1933, Tommy Harrison, Bill Cogswell, Johnny Noble, My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii:

     I wanna be with all the kanes and wahines that I knew long ago

kane

1. Verbal stem occurring in the following root, aspect, and mode combinations:

Aspect	Imperfective	Perfective	Future	Optative
Neuter negative	kan (taste)

• IPA^(key): [ˈkanɛ]

kane

1. third-person singular present of kanout

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kane

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of kanen

• Aken, aken, nake

kane

1. Rōmaji transcription of かね

From ka +‎ ne.

• IPA^(key): /kəˈne/ [kəˈnɛ]
• Hyphenation: ka‧ne

kane

1. (tag question) isn't it so?

   Magkayi kane?

   You're doing something, huh?

   Minawus kane?

   You did call, right?

• IPA^(key): /kaneː/

kane

1. this

   Hynrei kumno bad lono kane kan wan jia?

   But how and when will this happen?

   1. kane ka ― this (demonstrative adjective)

      kane ka pyrthei

      this world

      • 1891, “2 Korinth 4:1”, in Ka Baibl (Khasi Bible):

        Naba kumta, ba ngi don kane ka jingshakri 'tien Blei kat kumba ngi la ïoh isynei, ngim man thait shuh.

        Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not.

• Singh, U Nissor (1906), Khasi-English dictionary‎^[1], Shillong: Eastern Bengal and Assam Secretariat Press, page 21. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

kane

1. alternative form of cane

kane (Cyrillic spelling кане)

1. third-person plural present of kaniti

• IPA^(key): /kaɲe/, [ˈkaɲe]
• Rhymes: -aɲe
• Hyphenation: ka‧ne

kane

1. inflection of kaňa:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

• (Luutsa, Liivčülä) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑne/, [ˈkɑnʲe]
• Rhymes: -ɑne
• Hyphenation: ka‧ne

kane

1. alternative form of kaned

• Hallap, V.; Adler, E.; Grünberg, S.; Leppik, M. (2012), “kane”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language]‎^[2], 2nd edition, Tallinn