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ตาย

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Pali

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Adjective

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ตาย

  1. (demonstrative) Thai script form of tāya, which is genitive/dative/instrumental/ablative/locative singular feminine of (ta, that)

Pronoun

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ตาย f

  1. (demonstrative) Thai script form of tāya, which is genitive/dative/instrumental/ablative/locative singular of ตา (, her)

Thai

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Etymology

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From Proto-Southwestern Tai *taːjᴬ² (to die), from Proto-Tai *p.taːjᴬ (to die). Cognate with Northern Thai ᨲᩣ᩠ᨿ, Lao ຕາຍ (tāi), 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 *(m-)atay (to die).[1]

Pronunciation

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Orthographic/Phonemicตาย
t ā y
RomanizationPaiboondtaai
Royal Institutetai
(standard) IPA(key)/taːj˧/(R)

Verb

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ตาย (dtaai) (abstract noun การตาย)

  1. (intransitive) to die (to cease to live; to cease to function; to cease to move)
  2. (transitive) to render dead

Adjective

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ตาย (dtaai) (abstract noun ความตาย)

  1. dead (numb; bereft of sensation; lacking sensitivity of feeling; no longer functioning; no longer moving)
  2. killing; slaying

Adverb

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ตาย (dtaai) (abstract noun ความตาย)

  1. to death (until death)
  2. (slang, sometimes sarcastic) to death (to a great degree; to excess)

Injunction

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ตาย (dtaai)

  1. an exclamation of alarm, surprise, dismay, or disgust

Synonyms

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to die (to cease to live)

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*aCay”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Further reading

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  • ตาย” in Thai Dictionary Project (TDP) (UC Berkeley 1964) (plus additional data from the Royal Institute of Thailand (RI) and NECTEC's LEXITRON project (LEX)). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.