Clipping of English Keak with h as a placeholder.

keh

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Keak.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Keak terms

Of onomatopoeic origin, related to the stem of köhög (“to cough”). First attested in c. 1550.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɛx]
• Hyphenation: keh
• Rhymes: -ɛx

keh (usually uncountable, plural kehek)

1. heaves, broken wind (disease of horses characterized by coughing and difficult breathing)

   Synonyms: kehesség, száraz keh

• keh in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

This seems to be the Stem II of Proto-Kuki-Chin *kek (“to burst, rupture”), but VanBik and others omit this word for reasons unclear.

keh

1. broken

• Lorrain, J. Herbert (1940), “keh”, in Dictionary of the Lushai language, Calcutta: Asiatic Society