ked

See also: Ked, KED, -ked, keď, and kəɗ

Translingual

Symbol

ked

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

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Kerewe terms

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Melophagus ovinus

Wikipedia

Wikispecies has information on:

Hippoboscidae

Alternative forms

• kade (specifically Melophagus ovinus)

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛd

Noun

ked (plural keds)

1. Any of the family Hippoboscidae of obligate parasites, especially the sheep ked, Melophagus ovinus.
   • 1839, Rev. Dr Singer, Flies and other insects hurtful to live stock, &c.: Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, page 132:

     Pouring with tobacco liquor is fatal to these insects, and also to the ked, Hippobosca ovina, and to the tick, Acarus reduvius, if it fairly reach them.

   • 2006, Philip R. Scott, Sheep Medicine, page 263:

     The common differential diagnoses include cutaneous myiasis, sheep scab and lice; however, keds are readily visible to the naked eye. […] Adult keds are 4-6 mm long, dark red and readily visible on the neck and forelimbs.

   • 2007, Carrie Gleason, The Biography of Wool, page 12:

     They watch the sheep for signs of insects or pests, such as sheep keds and sheep lice, that can irritate the sheep causing them to scratch their fleece against fences or troughs and damage or tear the wool.

Synonyms

• (parasite of family Hippoboscidae): louse fly
• (Melophagus ovinus): sheep tick

Derived terms

• deer ked
• ked itch
• sheep ked

Translations

parasite fly

Czech: kloš (cs) m Finnish: täikärpänen (Hippoboscidae); lampaan täikärpänen (Melophagus ovinus) Hungarian: kullancslégy, csimbe, paklincs, kullancs (hu) Russian: кровососка (ru) f (krovososka) Swedish: lusfluga c (Hippoboscidae); fårlus c (Melophagus ovinus)

Anagrams

• EDK, KDE, dek

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Danish keed, possibly from Proto-Germanic *kaibaz (“crooked”), cf. Norwegian Nynorsk keiv (“wry, wrong, left”), keive (“left hand”), German Low German keef (“tired”). The adjective has forms with -w in Danish dialects of Jutland and Bornholm. Possibly the standard form kēð arose in the syntagm led og ked.

The adjective is derived from the verb *kībaną (“to quarrel”), cf. Danish kives, German keifen, and Dutch kijven.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkʰeðˀ]

Adjective

ked (neuter ked, plural and definite singular attributive kede, comparative mere ked, superlative (predicative) mest ked, superlative (attributive) mest kede)

1. tired (of), sorry (about).

Usage notes

• In the modern language almost exclusively construed with the preposition af (“of”) and either the pronoun det (“it”), as in the set phrase Jeg er ked af det ("I'm sorry"), or a subclause. There is also the substandard derivation ked-af-det-hed (“sadness”)).

References

“ked” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkʰeˀð]

Verb

ked

1. imperative of kede

Dâw

Particle

ked

1. in (something hollow); locative marker used to indicate position inside something hollow such as a canoe

   xoo-ked : in a canoe

References

• Language at Large: Essays on Syntax and Semantics (Aikhenvald, Dixon), citing Martins (1994)