kea
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editkea (plural keas or kea)
- Nestor notabilis, a parrot of New Zealand.
- Synonym: mountain parrot
Usage notes
editThe unmarked plural form kea is mainly found in New Zealand.
Translations
editNestor notabilis
Anagrams
editBasque
editNoun
editkea
- absolutive singular of ke
Dutch
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English kea, from Maori kea.
Pronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Noun
editkea m (plural kea's, diminutive keaatje n)
- the kea, Nestor notabilis
Further reading
edit- kea on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
Finnish
editEtymology
editFrom Maori kea, probably through English kea.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editkea
Declension
editInflection of kea (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | kea | keat | |
genitive | kean | keojen | |
partitive | keaa | keoja | |
illative | keaan | keoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | kea | keat | |
accusative | nom. | kea | keat |
gen. | kean | ||
genitive | kean | keojen keain rare | |
partitive | keaa | keoja | |
inessive | keassa | keoissa | |
elative | keasta | keoista | |
illative | keaan | keoihin | |
adessive | kealla | keoilla | |
ablative | kealta | keoilta | |
allative | kealle | keoille | |
essive | keana | keoina | |
translative | keaksi | keoiksi | |
abessive | keatta | keoitta | |
instructive | — | keoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Hypernyms
editAnagrams
editHawaiian
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Polynesian *tea. Compare Maori tea.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editkea
Derived terms
edit- Mauna Kea (literally “white mountain”)
Italian
editNoun
editkea m (invariable)
Maori
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Polynesian *kea (“hawksbill turtle”).[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editkea
- snot
- the kea, Nestor notabilis
Descendants
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ Greenhill SJ & Clark R (2011). POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online. Oceanic Linguistics, 50(2), 551-559.
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