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• Ket
  Ket

  noun

  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.
• ket-
  ket-

  variant of keto- before a vowel.

Ket

¹ American  

[ket] / kɛt /

noun

Kets plural

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.

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ket- ² American  

1. variant of keto- before a vowel.

   ketene.

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Etymology

Origin of Ket

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