kaj

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kaj

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Jju.

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English

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Etymology

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From Armenian քաջ (kʻaǰ), քաջք (kʻaǰkʻ).

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kaj (plural kaj)

  1. (Armenian mythology) A spirit of storm and wind;
    • 2006, The Cambridge History of Iran, volume 3, pt.1: Iran, Armenia and Georgia, page 611
      There existed destructive female demons called parik, whose husbands were known as kaj.

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Czech

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Etymology 1

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Adverb

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kaj

  1. (dialectal, Moravia, Silesia) where (position or direction)
    Synonyms: kde, kam

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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kaj

  1. second-person singular imperative of kát

Danish

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kaj c (singular definite kajen, plural indefinite kajer)

  1. pier, dock

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Esperanto

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek καί (kaí).

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Conjunction

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kaj

  1. and (additionally)
    Mi volas picon kaj refreŝigaĵon.
    I want a pizza and a soft drink.

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  • If there are more than two co-functioning elements, kaj is normally inserted between the penultimate and the last. But, for particular emphasis, it is repeated before each element:
Kaj mia fratino kaj mia amiko loĝas eksterlande.
Both my sister and my friend live abroad.
Mi amas kaj mian patrinon kaj patron.
I love both my mother and father.
  • When the same particle or adverb is repeated on each side of kaj, the word in question acquires a nuance of continuation or intensification:
La hundo bojis kaj bojis.
The dog was barking and barking.

K'iche'

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kaj

  1. sky

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Marshallese

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kaj (construct form kajin)

  1. idiom
  2. language
  3. motto
  4. pun
  5. saying
  6. slang
  7. slogan
  8. jargon
  9. lingo

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Polish

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -aj
  • Syllabification: kaj

Pronoun

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kaj

  1. (Kraków, Sieradz, Podhale, Kuyavia) Synonym of gdzie

Further reading

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  • Oskar Kolberg (1867) “kaj”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 271
  • Zygmunt Wasilewski (1889) “kaj”, in Jagodne: wieś w powiecie łukowskim, gminie Dąbie: zarys etnograficzny (in Polish), Warsaw: M. Arct, page 241

Romani

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Etymology

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Inherited from Prakrit [script needed] (kahiṃ),[1] [script needed] (kahĩ),[2] from Sanskrit कस्मिन् (kasmin), the locative singular of किम् (kim).[1][2]

Adverb

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kaj

  1. where? (interrogative)[1][2][3]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “kaj”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 132a
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Michael Beníšek (2020 August) “The Historical Origins of Romani”, in Yaron Matras, Anton Tenser, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, pages 32-33
  3. ^ Marcel Courthiade (2009) “kaj”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 184a

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Slavic *kъjь; compare standard Serbo-Croatian kòjī (which, what).

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kȁj (Cyrillic spelling ка̏ј)

  1. (Kajkavian) what (interrogative)
    Kaj si rekel?What did you say?
  2. (Kajkavian) what (relative)
    Nisem znal kaj si želel.I didn't know what you wanted.
  3. (Kajkavian) any, some
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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kaj (Cyrillic spelling кај)

  1. second-person singular imperative of kajati

Silesian

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkaj/
  • Rhymes: -aj
  • Syllabification: kaj

Pronoun

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kaj

  1. (interrogative) where

Further reading

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  • kaj in dykcjonorz.eu
  • kaj in silling.org

Slovene

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Slavic *jь appended to Proto-Slavic *ka, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷi-.

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káj

  1. what (interrogative)
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Etymology 2

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Conjunction

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kȁj

  1. what

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kȁj

  1. any, anything, something
    Se med vama kaj plete?Is there anything going on between you two?
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kȁj

  1. any, some
    Synonym: nekaj
    Imaš kaj denarja?Do you have any money?
    Kaj se bo že našlo.I guess I will find some.

Further reading

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  • kaj”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Sudovian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Baltic [Term?], further etymology unclear. Compare Lithuanian kója (leg, foot), Latvian kãja (leg, foot), but Old Prussian nage (foot).[1][2]

Noun

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kaj

  1. (anatomy) leg, (possibly also) foot

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  1. ^ Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985) “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica, volume 21, number 1 (in Lithuanian), Vilnius: VU, →DOI, page 74:kaj ‘koja, l. noga’ 7.
  2. ^ kója” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–): “nar. s. kaj Bein, Fuß”.

Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old French kay, cail (modern French quai), from Gaulish cagiíum (enclosure), from Proto-Celtic *kagyom (pen, enclosure) (compare Welsh cae (hedge)).

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kaj c

  1. quay, wharf; also in generalised sense any structure to which a truck, train or ship unloads

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Declension of kaj 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative kaj kajen kajer kajerna
Genitive kajs kajens kajers kajernas

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White Hmong

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Etymology

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From Proto-Hmong *ɢʷaŋᴬ (bright, light), borrowed from Middle Chinese (MC hwang, “yellow”). Doublet of daj (yellow).[1]

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kaj

  1. bright, characterized by light
  2. (figurative) used in kaj siab (satisfied with things; with a refreshed spirit)

References

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  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 75.
  1. ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 99; 166; 280.