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Kei ikîdi), kîde,  , ‘shoot.’  and  kînan, ‘to germinate,’ has a  affix n of the root kî; the identical  cînan, ‘to spring up, burst, burst to pieces, germinate,’ and the corresponding   činu,  chine, ‘rift, crack,’ prove that the meaning ‘to germinate’ originated in the actual perception of budding.  ',  , ‘no, none,’ from  kein, shortened from dechein,  dihhein, also  dohh-ein, nihhein, nohhein, all of which are compounded with ein. The meaning of  and  dech is obscure.  ', , ‘chalice, cup,’ from the   kęlch,  chęlih, kęlih (hh), ; corresponding to  kęlik; from  călicem (calix), borrowed at a time when the word was pronounced kalìkem ; the suggestion that  was first adopted from Ecclesiast. on the introduction of Christianity, is refuted by the changes made in crucem, ‘’ (‘cross’), which was certainly not borrowed before this time; the  z for  c before e points to a far later period than the derivation of  from calicem. There is greater probability in the assumption that the term was imported with the southern culture of the vine;, , and. In and  the  a is retained;  calič, cœlič, and  kalkr;   calich. In almost every language the word is restricted to ecclesiastical uses;  calice. —   , ‘calyx,’ is due to a confusion by scientists of  ( calix), with  κἀλυξ, ‘calyx.’   ,, ‘ladle, scoop, trowel,’ from and  kęlle, , ‘ladle, trowel,’  chęlla, , ‘trowel’;  *kaljô, , is wanting. Although there are a few points of contact between  and  cylle, cille,, ‘leather bottle or bag, vessel,’ the  word is based upon  culleus, ‘leather bag,’ or, as is more probable, a genuine  word has been confused with a borrowed term in.   ,, ‘cellar,’ from the  këller, ,  chëllâri, ; corresponding to  kellere, ;  kjallare, ; a  loan-word which probably passed from the South through  Germany to the North; in England only the word did not obtain in the older period;  cellar originated in the   celier. The word was borrowed from late cellarium (with a change of gender and accent) in the pre- period, since the terms borrowed from  in  change  c before open vowels into z (tz);. may have been introduced into Germany from the South at the same time as (which see), perhaps with the culture of the vine; yet the word signifies generally ‘subterranean storeroom.’ —   ,, ‘waiter,’ from këlnœre, , ‘butler,’ from  cellenarius, with the  variant këllœre, , from  cellarius, , ‘steward, butler.’ —   , ‘barmaid,’ këlnœrinne, këllœrinne,, ‘maid, servant, housekeeper.’   , and, ‘wine or oil press,’ from the   kęlter, kalter,  and   calcatûra, calctûra (also calctûrhûs,  kalterhûs); borrowed, on the introduction of the southern culture of the vine (see , , , and ), from  calcatura, ‘wine-press’ (calcatorium), derived from calcare, ‘to tread.’ Hence   means ‘treading press.’ For the genuine  for  see under  and  (in  pers,  presse, from  pressa). is, and is found from the Moselle to the Saale. Corresponding to OLorraine chaucheur, from calcatorium. <section end="Kelter" /> <section begin="Kemenate" /> ,, from the  kęmenâte, , ‘room with a fireplace,’  ‘bedroom,’ also ‘sitting-room, women's apartment.’ During the  period  caminâta, ‘room with a stove or fireplace,’ was introduced into , as is proved by the preservation of the  sharp dental in  chęminâta,. From caminata, which is recorded as early as the 6th, are derived  camminata, ‘large room,’ and  cheminée, whence the   chimney, also Czech,  and  komnata, ‘room’;. <section end="Kemenate" /> ,, ‘to know, be acquainted with,’ from the  kęnnen,  chęnnen. The simple form was very little used in and, the usual words being the compounds  irchęnnen,  erkęnnen, and  bichęnnen,  bekęnnen, with the meanings of. The corresponding kannjan (uskannjan), as well as  cęnnan, gecęnnan, signifies ‘to make known.’ This double sense, which is combined in  kenna, is explained by the