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Galician
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Arabic قَادِس (qādis), from Latin Gades. Doublet of Cádiz.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Cais
- Cádiz (a city in Cádiz, Spain)
1812, Ramón González Senra, Carta recomendada:oín eu decer en Cais unha vez que un reino que lle chaman Bolanda , que non é máis grande nin millor que Galicia, fixera máis de dous mil navíos en poucos anos, e andaba levando e traendo dun lado para o outro como os maragatos, e ganaban millós- I heard once in Cádiz that there is a kingdom called Holland, which is no larger of better than Galicia, which built more than two thousand large ships in just a few years, and was carrying from here to there, as muleteers, and they earned millions
References
- “Cais” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “Cais” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.