kaj

kaj

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

• Wiktionary's coverage of Jju terms

• kajk

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

• IPA^(key): /kɑːd͡ʒ/

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  • Rhymes: -ɑːdʒ

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.

• kaji

• AJK, Jak, jak

• IPA^(key): [ˈkaj]

kaj

1. (dialectal, Moravia, Silesia) where (position or direction)

   Synonyms: kde, kam

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

kaj

1. second-person singular imperative of kát

• Rhymes: -ajˀ
• Rhymes: -aj

kaj c (singular definite kajen, plural indefinite kajer)

1. pier, dock

• “kaj” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from Ancient Greek καί (kaí).

• IPA^(key): [kaj]

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• Hyphenation: kaj

kaj

1. and (additionally)

   Mi volas picon kaj refreŝigaĵon.

   I want a pizza and a soft drink.

• 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.

kaj

1. sky

• Allen J. Christenson, Kʼiche-English dictionary

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [kɑtʲ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /kætʲ/
• Bender phonemes: {kaj}

kaj (construct form kajin)

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

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

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

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• Rhymes: -aj
• Syllabification: kaj

kaj

1. (Central Greater Poland, Northern Greater Poland, Eastern Greater Poland, Kuyavia, Near Masovia) Synonym of gdzie

• Oskar Kolberg (1867) “kaj”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 271
• Oskar Kolberg (1877) “kaj”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 19
• Oskar Kolberg (1877) “kaj”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 34
• Zygmunt Wasilewski (1889) “kaj”, in Jagodne: wieś w powiecie łukowskim, gminie Dąbie: zarys etnograficzny (in Polish), Warsaw: M. Arct, page 241

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

kaj

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkâj/

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

• koje (Torlakian)
• što (Shtokavian)
• ča (Chakavian)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

kaj (Cyrillic spelling кај)

1. second-person singular imperative of kajati

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

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

kaj

1. (interrogative) where

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

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

• IPA^(key): /kàːj/

káj

1. what (interrogative)

• IPA^(key): /káj/

kȁj

1. what

kȁj

1. any, anything, something

   Se med vama kaj plete? ― Is there anything going on between you two?

• nékaj

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.

• “kaj”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

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

kaj

1. (anatomy) leg, (possibly also) foot
   • “Pagan dialects from Narew” line 7, (copied by V. Zinov, 1983):

     noga — kaj

     noga — leg

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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• Rhymes: -aj

kaj c

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

• kaj in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• kaj in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• kaj in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• kaj in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
• kaj in Svenskt nautiskt lexikon (1920)

• jak

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

• IPA^(key): /ka˥˧/

kaj

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

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 75.