Cais

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cais"

Galician

Alternative forms

• Cáis (reintegrationist)

Etymology

From Arabic قَادِس (qādis), from Latin Gades. Doublet of Cádiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈka.is], [ˈkai̯s]

Proper noun

Cais

1. 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.