# cai
## Translingual
### Symbol

cai
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Central American Indian languages.

## Aromanian
### Alternative forms

* care, cari

### Etymology 1

From Latin quālis, quālem. Compare Romanian care.

#### Determiner

cai
* which

#### Pronoun

cai
* which, that, who

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

cai m pl
* plural of cal (“horse”)

## Asturian
### Alternative forms

* caye
* calle

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkai̯/ [ˈkai̯]
* Hyphenation: cai

### Noun

cai f (plural cais)
* street
    Les cais el pueblu entovía-yos falta asfaltu.The village streets still need asphalt.

### Noun

cai m (plural cais)
* quay, port

## Balinese
### Romanization

cai
* Romanization of ᬘᬿ

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old French kay, from Gaulish *kagyum, cagiíun (“enclosure”), from Proto-Celtic *kagyom (“pen, enclosure”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkaj/ [ˈkɑj]
* Rhymes: -aj
* Hyphenation: cai

### Noun

cai m (plural cais)
* quay, pier, wharf, breakwater
    Synonym: peirao

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cai”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cai”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Highland Popoluca
### Noun

cai
* a dead person

### References

* Elson, Benjamin F., Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)‎ (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 11

## Leonese
### Etymology

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

### Noun

cai m
* street, road

### References

* AEDLL

## Macanese
### Etymology

From Portuguese cai, third-person singular present conjugation of cair. Compare sai for a similar phenomenon.

### Verb

cai
* to fall
    cai madre ― (of the uterus) to prolapse (literally, “to fall womb”)
    cai na asnéra ― to commit a faux-pas (literally, “to fall into trouble”)
    cai na putau ― to blunder (literally, “to fall into a clayen dish”)
    Já cai de caderaHe fell off the chair
    Já cai di cumprido na chámHe fell and lay sprawled on the floor
    Cuidado, nom-mestê tropeçá! Vôs cai, nôs cai juntado co vôs.Be careful, don’t stumble! If you fall down, we will fall down with you.
* to get carried away
    cai pê-mám ― to lose one's temper; to become disoriented (literally, “to fall feet-hands”)
    cai sin sintido ― to faint; to swoon (literally, “to fall without sense”)

#### Derived terms

* cai chuva
* cai sol (“to grow dark”, literally “to fall sun”)

### References

* https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#c

## Manchu
### Romanization

cai
* Romanization of ᠴᠠᡳ

## Mandarin
### Romanization

cai
* Nonstandard spelling of cāi.
* Nonstandard spelling of cái.
* Nonstandard spelling of cǎi.
* Nonstandard spelling of cài.

#### 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.

## Ngazidja Comorian
### Etymology

Likely from Persian چای (čây); see Swahili chai for more.

### Noun

cai class 9 (plural cai class 10)
* tea

### References

* “cai” in Outils & Ressources pour l'Exploitation de la Langue Comorienne, 2008.

## Occitan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkai/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

cai m (plural cais)
* (nautical) dock, quay

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkaj/ [ˈkaɪ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈkaj/
* Hyphenation: cai
* Rhymes: -aj

### Verb

cai
* inflection of cair:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaj/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

cai m pl
* plural of cal

## Sundanese
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ (“fresh water; stream, river”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

cai (Sundanese script ᮎᮄ)
* water (clear liquid H₂O)
* fluid; liquid
* juice (of fruit)

### Further reading

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

## Tày
### Pronunciation

* (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA: [kaːj˧˧]
* (Trùng Khánh) IPA: [kaːj˦˥]

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

cai (垓)
* veranda opposite the entrance in Tày-styled stilt houses
    Synonyms: la̱ng cai, hống
    nẳng tẩư cai ― to sit at the veranda
* yard
    Synonym: coo̱ng
    Cáy chin khẩu chang cai.Chickens eat rice at the yard.

##### Derived terms

* la̱ng cai
* tẩư cai

### Etymology 2

From Chinese 街 (MC kea|keaj, “street”). Cognate with Bouyei gaail and Zhuang gai.

#### Noun

cai
* streets (in general)
    oóc cai khảu bản ― out of the streets into the village

### Etymology 3

From Chinese 該 / 该 (gāi).

#### Verb

cai
* to manage
    Synonym: cuổn
    cai bấu lồng ― could not manage
    hết cai ― to do management
* to domineer
    pây cai hâu ― to go domineering over other people

##### Derived terms

* cai cuổn

### References

* Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎ (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
* Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội
* Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎ (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

## Venetan
### Noun

cai
* plural of cao

## Vietnamese
### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [kaːj˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [kaːj˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [kaːj˧˧]

### Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 該.

#### Noun

cai
* (military, historical) corporal
* overseer; foreman; supervisor
* (dialectal) Short for cai tổng (“district chief”).

##### Derived terms

* cai quản
* cai thầu
* cai tổng
* cai trị
* đăng cai

### Etymology 2

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 戒 (SV: giới).

#### Verb

cai
* to break (a habit); to grow out of (a habit); to give up

##### Derived terms

* cai nghiện
* cai sữa

## White Hmong
### Pronunciation

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /cai̯˧/

### Noun

cai
* law; rule; custom