cais

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "cais"

Asturian

Noun

cais

  1. plural of cai

Irish

Pronunciation

Adjective

cais

  1. inflection of cas (“twisted, winding; curly; complicated, intricate; twisty, devious”):
    1. vocative/genitive masculine singular
    2. (archaic) dative feminine singular

Mutation

Mutated forms of cais
radical lenition eclipsis
cais chais gcais

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

 

Etymology 1

From French quai, from Old French cail, from Gaulish .

Noun

cais m (invariable)

  1. quay, wharf, pier
  2. platform

See also

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cais

  1. second-person singular present indicative of cair

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

cais f pl

  1. plural of cal

Romanian

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Cais

Etymology

Back-formation from caisă (“apricot fruit”), from Ottoman Turkish قیصی (kayısı).

Noun

cais m (plural caiși)

  1. apricot (tree)

Declension

singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative cais caisul caiși caișii
genitive-dative cais caisului caiși caișilor
vocative caisule caișilor

Welsh

Etymology

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not given an etymology or cognates (even in Breton or Cornish) by GPC. Maybe borrowed from English case then, with semantic shift "case" > "application, request" > "attempt, effort"? Alternatively, related to Latin quaerō (“to seek, ask, endeavor”)?”

Pronunciation

Noun

cais m (plural ceisiadau or ceisiau)

  1. effort, attempt
    Synonyms: ymgais, cynnig, ymdrech, ymroddiad
  2. request, petition, application
    Synonyms: dymuniad, deisyfiad, arch, ymofyniad, galwad
  3. (rugby) try
  4. (literary) quest

Verb

cais

  1. third-person singular present indicative/future of ceisio

Mutation

Mutated forms of cais
radical soft nasal aspirate
cais gais nghais chais

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cais”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

White Hmong

Etymology

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Ratliff lists this as a native word.[1] Looks like it could be borrowed from Chinese 拆 (“to dismantle”), though.”

Pronunciation

Verb

cais

  1. to separate from, exclude, segregate, split
    Lawv cais nws tawm hauv tsev neeg. ― They exclude him from the family.

References

  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN.
  1. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25
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