gai
Basque
Pronunciation
Noun
gai ?
Adjective
gai
- 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
Adjective
gai m or f (masculine and feminine plural gais)
Noun
gai m (plural gais)
- gay man
Further reading
- “gai” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Cebuano
Etymology
Shortening.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ga‧i
Verb
gai
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 gaie, masculine plural gais, feminine plural gaies)
Antonyms
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- ^ Picoche, Jacqueline with Jean-Claude Rolland (2009) “gai”, in Dictionnaire étymologique du français (in French), Paris: Dictionnaires Le Robert
- ^ Dauzat, Albert with Jean Dubois, Henri Mitterand (1964) Nouveau dictionnaire étymologique (in French), Paris: Librairie Larousse
- ^ http://blog.oup.com/2012/02/word-origin-roots-gay/
Further reading
- “gai”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Irish
Noun
gai m (genitive singular gai, nominative plural gaethe)
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
Anagrams
Japanese
Romanization
gai
Mandarin
Romanization
gai
- Nonstandard spelling of gāi.
- Nonstandard spelling of gǎi.
- Nonstandard spelling of gài.
Usage notes
- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
Old French
Etymology
Old Occitan, see below.
Adjective
gai m (oblique and nominative feminine singular gaie)
Descendants
Old Occitan
Adjective
gai m or f (plural gais)
- 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
- For all the lovers
Papiamentu
Etymology
From Portuguese galo and Spanish gallo.
Noun
gai
Rohingya
Etymology
From Bengali.
Noun
gai
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Vietic *t-keː (“hemp-nettle”); cognate with Arem /takeː/ ("horn").
Noun
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Proto-Vietic *-keː (“ramie”).
Noun
(classifier cây) gai
Zhuang
Pronunciation
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /kaːi˨˦/
- Tone numbers: gai1
- Hyphenation: gai
Etymology 1
From Chinese 街 (jiē, “street”). Cognate with Bouyei gaail. Compare Cantonese 街 (gaai1).
Noun
gai (1957–1982 spelling gai)
See also
Etymology 2
From Proto-Tai *p.qaːj (“to sell”). Cognate with Thai ขาย (kǎai), Northern Thai ᨡᩣ᩠ᨿ, Lao ຂາຍ (khāi), Lü ᦃᦻ (ẋaay), Tai Dam ꪄꪱꪥ, Shan ၶၢႆ (khǎai), Ahom 𑜁𑜩 (khay), Bouyei gaail. Compare Proto-Kam-Sui *kwe¹ (“to sell”) (whence Sui beel).
Verb
gai (1957–1982 spelling gai)
- to sell
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