kel

See also: Appendix:Variations of "kel"

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Etymology

Clipping of English Kela.

Symbol

kel

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

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Kela-Yela terms

Cypriot Arabic

Root
'-k-l
4 terms

Etymology

Inherited from Arabic أَكَلَ (ʔakala).

Verb

kel I (present pkyakol)

1. to eat
2. to wear down

References

• Borg, Alexander (2004), A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 142

Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

kel

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɛl]
• Hyphenation: kel
• Rhymes: -ɛl

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Czech kel, from Proto-Slavic *kъlъ.

Noun

kel m inan

1. tusk

Declension

Declension of kel (hard masculine inanimate reducible)

	singular	plural
nominative	kel	kly
genitive	klu	klů
dative	klu	klům
accusative	kel	kly
vocative	kle	kly
locative	klu	klech
instrumental	klem	kly

Etymology 2

Related to older klí (“embryo, germ”).

Noun

kel m inan or f

1. (obsolete, botany) embryo, germ

   Synonyms: klíček, embryo, klík (obsolete), klíč (rare)

Declension

Declension of kel (hard masculine inanimate reducible)

	singular	plural
nominative	kel	kly
genitive	klu	klů
dative	klu	klům
accusative	kel	kly
vocative	kle	kly
locative	klu	klech
instrumental	klem	kly

Derived terms

• klíček

Further reading

• “kel”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “kel”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “kel”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025
• František Št. Kott (1878), “kel”, in Česko-německý slovník zvláště grammaticko-fraseologický (in Czech), Prague: Josef Kolář, page 684

Danish

Etymology

From German Kehle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /keːl/, [kʰeːˀl]

Noun

kel c (singular definite kelen, plural indefinite kele)

1. hollow moulding, cavetto
2. valley

Inflection

Declension of kel

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	kel	kelen	kele	kelene
genitive	kels	kelens	keles	kelenes