Ket

¹

[ket]

noun

plural

Kets ,

plural

Ket .

1. a member of an Indigenous people of central Siberia, living in widely dispersed communities on tributaries of the Yenisei River, between 60° and 67° N latitude.

2. the Yeniseian language of the Ket, related only to several now extinct languages of the upper Yenisei.

ket-

²

1. variant of keto- before a vowel.

   ketene.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Ket¹

From Russian, from Ket: Ket, “man, human being”