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Istriot
Etymology
From Latin cadere.
Pronunciation
Verb
cài
- fall
References
Mandarin
Pronunciation
Romanization
cài (cai4, Zhuyin ㄘㄞˋ)
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 埰
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 寀/采
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 縩/𮉯
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 菜
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蔡
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 采
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 䰂
Tày
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
cài
- Short for pja cài.
Etymology 2
Cognate with Thai คาย (kaai).
Adjective
cài
- rough; containing small sharp fuzz that can cause discomfort
- bâư slửa cài ― rough shirt
- bâư mạy cài ― rough leaf
- phên phà cài ― rough blanket
- cài mảy ― bamboo fuzz
Derived terms
Etymology 3
From Proto-Tai *ɣaːjᴬ (“to put out of the mouth”). Cognate with Northern Thai ᨤᩣ᩠ᨿ, Lao ຄາຍ (khāi), Lü ᦆᦻ (xaay), Shan ၶၢႆး (kháai), Saek กฺ๊าย, Nong Zhuang haiz, Thai คาย (kaai).
Verb
cài (𡀲, 咳)
- to spit out
- chin ỏi cài nhửa ― to eat sugarcane and spit out the residue
- cài bấu ooc, nựn bấu lồng ― to be unable to spit out or swallow through
References
- Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
- Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội
- Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient
Vietnamese
Etymology
Cognate with Chut kal² (Babaev & Samarina, 2018).
Pronunciation
Verb
cài • (掑)
- to pin; to fasten
- trâm cài tóc ― a hairpin
- (computing) Short for cài đặt (“to install”).
See also