Jyar

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

the 8th month of the gariner Jewish year, corresponding, at the earlimonth est, with our April, but it may be as g, at th late as May; it has only 29 days. it ma 29 days K K, k, the 11th letter and the 8th consonant of the English alphabet. This letter has before vowels, and before all consonants except n, the same phonetic value in all the alphabets where it appears-a guttural momentary sound pro- (bard) duced by raising the back of the tongue d), but g to the back of the palate, as in kill, k, even keen, king. Before n it is not sounded ined. In in English, as in knee, knell, knife. it From the 16th to the 18th century it was used in English at the end of words after c, apparently to strengthen the hard c, as in alchemick, musick, publick, but this usage is now confined to monosyllables, as check, clock, duck, sick. Forming part of the original Phenician alphabet, k passed into Greek and the oldest Latin; but c was substituted for it in the latter at an early date, and it only survived in a few common abbreviations (see below). In the early part of the present era, moreover, the sound of k or c (hard) was lost in Italy. It under went palatization-i. e., it was produced by raising the middle instead of the back of the tongue to the palate, and c was ade. sounded as ch (tsh). Those modern initial K alphabets, therefore, derived_from Italy od for k (i. e., Celtic, Modern Italian, French, and Carter; K. Spanish) have, properly speaking, no k, and the sound and letter are only present th. in a few foreign importations. In those ymbol K alphabets, however, derived through the Greek (i. e., Teutonic and Slavonic) k plays an important part. But in English the letter holds a very ambiguous position. The earliest Anglo-Saxon alphabet, being derived from Roman missionaries, was without k, and e was genally used to represent its sound, but ⚫erally German influence soon introduced it to northern England, and made it interchangeable with c throughout the country, and the two letters were used inof an ob differently (cyning, kyning). The Nore great man French of the Conquest brought in the many words in which k could have no place, and not only often softened the 304 tex or e (sibilant cild, eneral predominance old c (hard) to ch, or c (sibilant cild, he original sound was child), but gave c general predominance ern England, how over k, even when the original sound was to be freely used in retained. In northern England, how- 13. dialects khad be freely used in ever, it continued to (sibilant)-N. riko words in which in S. dialects k had N. croke (cross), S. given way to ch or c (sibilant) -N. rike Greenwich; N. (kingdom), S. riche; N. croke (cross), S. in Lowland Scotch, crouche; N. Alnwick, S. Greenwich; N. ained, as it does to Caister, S. Chester. In Lowland Scotch, aportance (kirk and likewise, k still retained, as it does to uygone many other this day, its old importance (kirk and church). K has undergone many other સ્વભા phonetic changes in Indo-European languages. In the Græco-Latin branch it was sometimes labialized, and became p, Latin equus and Greek hippos=horse, Inglish it has been Sanskrit kankan, and Greek pente, i. e., by t, Old English penpe = five. In English it has been sh bat, make=mate, occasionally replaced by t, Old English bak, Modern English bat, make=mate, is used, in orders of maked-made. ht; as K. G., Knight As an initial K is used, in orders of T., Knight of the knighthood for knight; as K. G., Knight Knight: Commander of the Garter; K. T., Knight of the Thistle; K. C. B., Knight Commander s used: of the Bath. (Roman) = 250, or As a symbol K is used: 350,000, in Greek, 1. For numerals (Roman) = 250, or Jar stanke kolow it with a line above it = 250,000; in Greek, ntraks is written K with a perpendicular stroke below it = 20; but when the stroke is written above it, the sum is increased a thouaastum (being sand fold, and it then equals 20,000. kalium) by which 2. In chemistry, for potassium (being the initial letter of kalium) by which name the metal is also known. (käli or kilalong stone build-