けり
けり (keri)
- 1. [aux-v] indicates recollection or realization (i.e. of hearsay or the past); can form a poetic past tense (arch)
- 2. [aux-v] indicates continuation from the past to the present (arch)
- 3. [n] end; conclusion — from the use of the aux. at the end of waka, also written with the ateji 鳧