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Kmet vs Ket - What's the difference?

kmet | ket |

As a noun kmet

is a serf on the balkan peninsula, especially one holding land under the estate system introduced by the ottomans and retained in some areas by austria-hungary.

As a proper noun ket is

a people of krasnoyarsk krai in central siberia, russia.

kmet

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A serf on the Balkan peninsula, especially one holding land under the estate system introduced by the Ottomans and retained in some areas by Austria-Hungary.
  • * 1876 , (Arthur John Evans), Through Bosnia and Herzegovina On Foot :
    • Suffering from this double disability, social and religious, the Christian ‘kmet ,’ or tiller of the soil, is worse off than many a serf in our darkest ages, and lies as completely at the mercy of the Mahometan owner of the soil as if he were a slave.
  • * 1997 , Michael Palairet, The Balkan Economies c. 1800-1914 , Cambridge 2002, p. 206:
    • The authorities repeatedly emphasized that the kmet''''' was not bound to his master, to counter allegations equating '''''kmet tenure with servile status.
  • * 2012 , (Christopher Clark), The Sleepwalkers , Penguin 2013, p. 74:
    • In any case, the Serbian kmets who remained within the old estate system on the eve of the First World War were not especially badly off by the standards of early twentieth-century peasant Europe […].
    ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==

    Noun

  • peasant (especially feudal)
  • village major or leader

    • Declension

    {{sh-decl-noun , km?t, kmètovi , kmeta, kmetova , kmetu, kmetovima , kmeta, kmetove , kmete, kmetovi , kmetu, kmetovima , kmetom, kmetovima }} ----

    ket

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (term) notation invented by .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (physics) A vector, in Hilbert space, especially as representing the state of a quantum mechanical system; the complex conjugate of a bra; a ket vector. Symbolised by , ...? .
    • A particular ket , say , A\rangle, might be represented by a particular column vector. Its corresponding bra, \langle A, , would then be represented by the row vector which is the transpose conjugate of that column vector.

    Etymology 2

    Compare Icelandic . The use of the term (ket) for "candy" or "sweets" probably derived from its use to describe sweet meats or as a deterrent to children.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Northern England) Carrion; any filth.
  • (Northumbria) Sweetmeats.
  • (Geordie) A sweet, treat or candy.

    • References

    * The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 on DICT.org * * *

    Etymology 3

    Abbreviation.

    Noun

    (-)
  • (colloquial) ketamine
    • English terms with multiple etymologies ----