kete

From Maori [Term?].

kete (plural ketes)

1. A Maori woven basket.

ke- +‎ -te

kete

1. Alternative form of kote

		Present and past tense	Negative tense	Future	Negative future	Distant future	Negative determinate
Singular	First person	ua	use	upwe	usap	upwap	ute
	Second person	ka, ke	kose, kese	kopwe, kepwe	kosap, kesap	kopwap, kepwap	kote, kete
	Third person	a	ese	epwe	esap	epwap	ete
Plural	First person	aua (exclusive) sia (inclusive)	ause (exclusive) sise (inclusive)	aupwe (exclusive) sipwe (inclusive)	ausap (exclusive) sisap (inclusive)	aupwap (exclusive) sipwap (inclusive)	aute (exclusive) site (inclusive)
	Second person	oua	ouse	oupwe	ousap	oupwap	oute
	Third person	ra, re	rese	repwe	resap	repwap	rete

kete

1. genitive plural of kesi

From Proto-Oceanic *kete (“basket”).

kete

1. basket

• rawhi
• roroi
• taiaroa
• raurau (“basket, container”)

• rahu (“food collection basket”)
• rourou (“food basket”)

• “kete” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

kete

1. Alternative form of kyte

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kete (n class, plural kete)

1. (games) a playing piece or dice

kete

1. quietly

kete

1. Alternative form of ket (“whose”)

Related to Middle Armenian գաթայ (gatʻay). According to Ačaṙyan, borrowed from Armenian.

kete

1. gata

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “գաթայ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 500

Proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruba *dede or Proto-Yoruba *gede, from Proto-Edekiri *dede, ultimately from Proto-Yoruba *dVdV, see Olukumi gèdè, Itsekiri dede, Igala dẹdẹ

IPA^(key): /kē.tē/

kete

1. (Ekiti, Idanre, Western Akoko) all, every, everyone, everything

   Synonyms: gbogbo, dede, gede

   Kete ulé sị́kọ́n? ― What about everyone in the house?

This noun often looks and acts as a qualifier or determiner, and while usually before nouns, but less commonly comes after. Some examples:

• Kete ọmọ Èkìtì lị ị́ jẹ ịyán ― All Ekiti people eat pounded yam
• Ulé kete ria ni ― The house belongs to all of us

• Èkìtì kete