ꦏꦼꦤ

Javanese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Javanese kĕna (“right, proper, fitting, suitable; hit by, touched by, subjected to, being the object of”), from Proto-Austronesian *keNa (“be ensnared, caught in a trap; suffer, undergo, be struck by something; be entrapped or deceived; hit the mark, be ‘on target’, correct, right, true”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kə.nɔ/
  • Rhymes: -nɔ
  • Hyphenation: ke‧no

Noun

ꦏꦼꦤ (kena) (ngoko)

  1. hit, struck
  2. succeed
  3. able (to be done)
  4. can, allowed.

Alternative forms
  • ꦏꦼꦤꦺꦏ꧀ (kenèk) (Mataraman, Kediri—Madiun)

Synonyms
  • ꦏꦼꦤꦶꦁ (kening) (krama)

Descendants
  • → Indonesian: kena (semantic loan)

Further reading
  • The Linguistic Center of Yogyakarta (2015) “kena”, in Kamus Basa Jawa (Bausastra Jawa) [Javanese Language Dictionary (Javanese Dictionary)] (in Javanese), Yogyakarta: Kanisius, →ISBN
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