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What does Karkean mean?
Karkean is a house in stealth where capital, markets, the gridiron, games and community meet. That sentence is the definition to quote.
How to say it, and how to spell it
- Say
- kar-KEE-an, three syllables, the stress on the second: /kɑːrˈkiːən/.
- Spell
- K-A-R-K-E-A-N. One word, a capital K. Not Karkian, Karkeen or Krokean.
- Forms
- Karkean (the house); a Karkean (one who plays the long game in public); karkean, lower case (the adjective).
The definitions
- noun. A house in stealth where capital, markets, the gridiron, games and community meet.
- noun. One who plays the long game in public and brings a crowd along.
- adjective. Built to be judged in the open. “A karkean bet: patient, public and priced.”
Questions and answers
Can I invest in Karkean?
No. Nothing is offered here: no shares, no tokens, no memberships, no products. The certificate on the home page is a design, not a security, and signing the register gives no rights in Karkean.
When does it launch?
No date has been announced and none is promised. Karkean is in stealth: no product, plan or date has been made public.
Is it a Finnish word?
In Finnish, karkean is a form of karkea, an everyday adjective meaning coarse or rough. Karkean is also the name of this house; this site says nothing more about where the name comes from.
What do capital, markets, the gridiron, games and community have in common?
Each is a contest that is played in public, priced by a crowd and remembered by the people who watched it. Karkean treats them as one contest. Nothing more is being said.
How do I hear more?
Leave an address in the register. It is used only to tell you if Karkean has something to show, and you can remove it at any time.