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Pali
Alternative scripts
- tāya (Latin script)
- 𑀢𑀸𑀬 (Brahmi script)
- ताय (Devanagari script)
- তায (Bengali script)
- තාය (Sinhalese script)
- တာယ or တႃယ (Burmese script)
- ตายะ (Thai script)
- ᨲᩣᨿ (Tai Tham script)
- ຕາຍ or ຕາຍະ or ຕາຢະ (Lao script)
- តាយ (Khmer script)
- 𑄖𑄂𑄠 (Chakma script)
Adjective
ตาย
- (demonstrative) Thai script form of tāya, which is genitive/dative/instrumental/ablative/locative singular feminine of ต (ta, “that”)
Pronoun
ตาย f
- (demonstrative) Thai script form of tāya, which is genitive/dative/instrumental/ablative/locative singular of ตา (tā, “her”)
Thai
Etymology
From Proto-Southwestern Tai *taːjᴬ² (“to die”), from Proto-Tai *p.taːjᴬ (“to die”). Cognate with Northern Thai ᨲᩣ᩠ᨿ, Lao ຕາຍ (tāi), Lü ᦎᦻ (ṫaay), Tai Dam ꪔꪱꪥ, Tai Dón ꪔꪱꪥ, Tai Daeng ꪔꪱꪥ, Shan တၢႆ (tǎai), Tai Nüa ᥖᥣᥭ (taay), Khamti တၢဲႈ, Phake တႝ (tay), Ahom 𑜄𑜩 (tay), Zhuang dai, Zuojiang Zhuang tai or hai. Compare Proto-Be *ɗaːjᴬ¹, Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *atay (“death”).[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
ตาย • (dtaai) (abstract noun การตาย or ความตาย)
- to die: to cease to live; to be or become dead.
- (of a machine, bodily organ, etc) to die: to stop; to cease to function.
Adverb
ตาย • (dtaai)
- (slang, sometimes sarcastic) to death: to a great degree, to excess.
Derived terms
References
- ^ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*aCay”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI