# cais
## Asturian
### Noun

cais
* plural of cai

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [kaʃ]

### Adjective

cais
* inflection of cas (“twisted, winding; curly; complicated, intricate; twisty, devious”):
** vocative/genitive masculine singular
** (archaic) dative feminine singular

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* cays, caes, cayz (obsolete)

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkajs/ [ˈkaɪ̯s]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkajs/ [ˈkaɪ̯s]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈkajʃ/ [ˈkaɪ̯ʃ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈkajʃ/
* Rhymes: (Brazil) -ajs, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -ajʃ
* Homophone: cás (Brazil)
* Hyphenation: cais

### Etymology 1

From French quai, from Old French cail, from Gaulish [Term?].

#### Noun

cais m (invariable)
* quay, wharf, pier
* platform

#### See also

* píer m

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

cais
* second-person singular present indicative of cair

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

cais f pl
* plural of cal

## Romanian
### Etymology

Back-formation from caisă (“apricot fruit”), from Ottoman Turkish قیصی (kayısı).

### Noun

cais m (plural caiși)
* apricot (tree)

#### Declension
## Welsh
### Etymology

* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given an etymology or cognates (even in Breton or Cornish) by GPC. Maybe borrowed from English case then, with semantic shift "case" > "application, request" > "attempt, effort"? Alternatively, related to Latin quaerō (“to seek, ask, endeavor”)?”

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kai̯s/
* Rhymes: -ai̯s

### Noun

cais m (plural ceisiadau or ceisiau)
* effort, attempt
    Synonyms: ymgais, cynnig, ymdrech, ymroddiad
* request, petition, application
    Synonyms: dymuniad, deisyfiad, arch, ymofyniad, galwad
* (rugby) try
* (literary) quest

#### Related terms

* ceisio (“to attempt, to try”)
* ceislen (“application form”)
* ffurflen gais (“application form”)
* ymgais (“attempt”)

### Verb

cais
* third-person singular present indicative/future of ceisio

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cais”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

## White Hmong
### Etymology

* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Ratliff lists this as a native word. Looks like it could be borrowed from Chinese 拆 (“to dismantle”), though.”

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /cai̯˩/

### Verb

cais
* to separate from, exclude, segregate, split
    Lawv cais nws tawm hauv tsev neeg. ― They exclude him from the family.

### References

* Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN.
* ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25