gai

See also: Gai, gái, gài, gãi, gāi, gǎi, and ga'i

Basque

Noun

gai

  1. material
  2. matter, stuff
  3. topic, subject

Adjective

gai

  1. Having sufficient power, strength, force, skill, means, or resources of any kind to accomplish the object; possessed of qualifications rendering competent for some end; competent; qualified; capable.
    zerbait egiteko gai izan - to be able to do something.
    ez naiz egiteko gai izan - I'm not been able to do it.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from English gay.

Adjective

gai (masculine and feminine plural gais)

  1. gay, homosexual

Noun

gai m (plural gais)

  1. gay man

Further reading

Cebuano

Etymology

Shortening.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ga‧i

Verb

gai

  1. tagai

French

Etymology

From Old French gai, from Old Occitan gai, from Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌴𐌹𐍃 (gaheis, “impetuous”)[1]; or from Frankish *gāhi (“fast, sudden, impetuous”), Frankish *wāhi (“pretty”)[2]; or (per Liberman, Chance, Meier) from Latin vagus (“wandering, inconstant, flighty”), with *[w] → [g] as in French gaine[3]. Cognate with English gay and Italian gaio.

Pronunciation

Adjective

gai (feminine singular gaie, masculine plural gais, feminine plural gaies)

  1. cheerful; merry
  2. gay; homosexual

Antonyms

Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ Picoche, Jacqueline; Jean-Claude Rolland (2009), “gai”, in Dictionnaire étymologique du français (in French), Paris: Dictionnaires Le Robert
  2. ↑ Dauzat, Albert; Jean Dubois, Henri Mitterand (1964) Nouveau dictionnaire étymologique (in French), Paris: Librairie Larousse
  3. ↑ http://blog.oup.com/2012/02/word-origin-roots-gay/

Further reading

Anagrams

Irish

Noun

gai m (genitive singular gai, nominative plural gaethe)

  1. Obsolete spelling of gae (“spear, dart; ray”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
gai ghai ngai
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Italian

Adjective

gai

  1. masculine plural of gaio

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

gai

  1. Rōmaji transcription of がい

Mandarin

Romanization

gai

  1. Nonstandard spelling of gāi.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of gǎi.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of gài.

Usage notes

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Old French

Etymology

Old Occitan, see below.

Adjective

gai m (oblique and nominative feminine singular gaie)

  1. happy; cheerful; gay

Descendants

Old Occitan

Adjective

gai m, f (plural gais)

  1. happy; joyous
    • circa 1145, Bernard de Ventadour, Lo gens tems de pascor:
      Per que tuih amador
      Son gai e chantador
      For all the lovers
      are joyous and full of song

Rohingya

Etymology

From Bengali.

Noun

gai

  1. cow

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Vietic *t-keː (“hemp-nettle”); cognate with Arem /takeː/ ("horn").

Noun

(classifier cái) gai

  1. hemp-nettle
  2. thorn
  3. prickle
  4. (Central Vietnam) pineapple

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Proto-Vietic *-keː (“ramie”).

Noun

(classifier cây) gai

  1. ramie

Zhuang

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /kaːi˨˦/
  • Tone numbers: gai1
  • Hyphenation: gai

Etymology 1

From Cantonese 街 (gaai1, “street”). Cognate with Bouyei gaail. Compare Cantonese 街 (gaai1).

Noun

gai (old orthography gai, Sawndip forms 街)

  1. street

See also

  • daihloh
  • dauhloh
  • dingqroen
  • loh
  • maxloh
  • roen
  • roennou

Etymology 2

From Proto-Tai *p.qaːj (“to sell”). Cognate with Thai ขาย (kǎai), Northern Thai ᨡᩣ᩠ᨿ, Lao ຂາຍ (khāi), Lü ᦃᦻ (ẋaay), Shan ၶၢႆ (khǎay), Ahom 𑜁𑜩 (khay), Bouyei gaail.

Verb

gai (old orthography gai, Sawndip forms 皆, 該, 开)

  1. to sell
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