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Translingual
Etymology
Symbol
cay
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English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kiː/, /keɪ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -iː, -eɪ
Etymology 1
From Spanish cayo, from Taíno.
Alternative forms
Noun
Derived terms
- Bellamy Cay
- Big Ambergris Cay
- Big Cay
- Cas Cay
- Cinnamon Cay
- Congo Cay
- Cotton Cay
- Dellis Cay
- Diamond Cay
- Dragon Cay
- Fort George Cay
- French Cay
- Frenchman's Cay
- Gibbs Cay
- Grass Cay
- Green Cay
- Henley Cay
- Hope Cay
- Joe Grant Cay
- Kalkun Cay
- Little Ambergris Cay
- Little Cay
- Long Cay
- Lovango Cay
- Mangrove Cay
- Marina Cay
- McCartney Cay
- Mingo Cay
- Nanny Cay
- Parrot Cay
- Pine Cay
- Plandon Cay
- Protestant Cay
- Ramgoat Cay
- Round Cay
- Salt Cay
- Sandy Cay
- Scilly Cay
- Silly Cay
- Steven Cay
- Thatch Cay
- Trunk Cay
- Turtledove Cay
- Water Cay
- Waterlemon Cay
- Whistling Cay
Translations
small island — see key
See also
Etymology 2
See quay.
Noun
cay (plural cays)
- Obsolete spelling of quay (“structure for loading vessels”).
- 1640, William Lithgow, The Totall Discourse, of the rare Adventures, and painefull Peregrinations of long nineteene yeares Travailes […], page 130:
- But (by your leave) I had a hard welcome in my landing, for bidding farewell to the Turkes, who had kindly used me three dayes, in our passage from the Castles, the Master of the boate saying adio Christiano: There were foure French Runnagates standing on the Cay; who hearing these words, fell desperatly upon me blaspheming the Name of Jesus, and throwing me to the ground, beate me most cruelly: […]
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Azerbaijani
Etymology
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
cay (definite accusative cayı, plural caylar)
Declension
References
- “cay” in Obastan.com.
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Jakaltek
Etymology
From Proto-Mayan *kyar.
Noun
cay
References
- Church, Clarence; Church, Katherine (1955), Vocabulario castellano-jacalteco, jacalteco-castellano (in Spanish), Guatemala C. A.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 47; 9
Koyraboro Senni
Noun
cay
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Cognate with Tho [Cuối Chăm] kal¹.
Adjective
- burning
- (colloquial, figurative) bitter (cynical and resentful)
- thua cay ― a bitter defeat
Derived terms
- cay cú
- cay đắng
- cay độc
- cay lè
- cay nghiệt
- cay nóng
- cay nồng
- cay sè
- chua cay
- đắng cay
- gừng càng già càng cay
- sâu cay
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Etymology 2
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Noun
cay
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