kay

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪ

From Latin ka.

kay

1. (colloquial) Clipping of okay.

• 'kay

• m'kay, mkay, mm-kay, mmm-kay

kay (plural kays)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter K/k.
2. (colloquial) A kilometer.
3. (colloquial) A thousand of some unit (from kilo-).

• (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed

kay (plural kays)

1. Dated form of cay.
   • 1839, John Purdy, The Colombian Navigator:

     Three small sandy kays on the reef, bearing this name, lie at the distance of about 5½ miles S.S.E. from Boca Chica.

• kay-fabe

• kya, yak

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaj/ [ˈkʌj]
• Hyphenation: kay

káy

1. his

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “kay”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

From Proto-Mayan *chay, Proto-Mayan *kay. ^[1] Proto-Mayan *kar ^[2] Cognate with Achi kar , K'iche' kar, Akatek xcay

• IPA^(key): /kaj/ ^[3]

kay

1. fish

• Julia Becker de Richards, Maya' Choltzij: vocabulario comparativo de los idiomas Mayas de Guatemala (2003)
• Ryan Bennett, Mayan Phonology (2015)

• IPA^(key): /kaj/ [kaɪ̯]

kay (Basahan spelling ᜃᜌ᜔)

1. (Daet, Tabaco–Legazpi–Sorsogon) Used to mark oblique cases of personal nouns

   Synonym: ki

   An kantang ini, para kay papa.

   This song's for (my) father.

   Yaon kay ate an selpon mo.

   Your sister has your cellphone.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaj/ [ˈkaɪ̯]

kay (Badlit spelling ᜃᜌ᜔)

1. because

   Synonym: tungod

kay

1. because

• IPA^(key): /kaj/

From Saint Dominican Creole French caze, from French case (“hut, cabin”).

kay

1. house

• kay chanmòt
• kay mistè

From French caille (“quail”)

kay

1. quail

From French caye, from Spanish cayo (“key”).

kay

1. key (small island)

• Kay Sab

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaj/ [ˈkɐj]
• Rhymes: -aj
• Syllabification: kay

kay (Hanunoo spelling ᜣᜬ᜴)

1. his; her; its

   Synonym: kanya

   kay kadaka ― his/her/its size/bigness

   kay balay ― his/her/its house

   Kay irong kay kaaba!

   His nose, how long!

2. (by extension) their

   Synonym: kanda

kay (Hanunoo spelling ᜣᜬ᜴)

1. by him; by her; by it

   Synonym: kanya

   Kay binuwat.

   It was done by him.

2. of him; of her; of it

   Synonym: kanya

3. (by extension) by them

   Synonym: kanda

4. (by extension) of them

   Synonym: kanda

kay (Hanunoo spelling ᜣᜬ᜴)

1. how (used as a modifier to indicate surprise, delight, admiration or other strong feelings)

   Kay kadaka!

   How big!

   Kay irong kay kaaba!

   His nose, how long!

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 146

kay

1. when

kay

1. when

kay

1. when

kay

1. when

• cay

Borrowed either from Asturian cai or Catalan call, from Latin callem.

kay f (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling קאיי)

1. (Balkan) street

   Synonym: kaleja

From Old Irish céo (“mist”).

• IPA^(key): /kʲeː/

kay f (genitive singular kay, plural kayghyn)

1. (weather) fog, mist

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ceó”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

kay (Raguileo spelling)

1. and

kay

1. Alternative form of keye (“key”)

kay

1. this

• chay
• haqay

kay

1. being, essence

kay

1. this

kay

1. to be

   Maqtañam kani.

   I'm already an old person.

2. to exist
3. An auxiliary verb

   Chaypim puñuq kanki.

   You used to sleep there.

• cay — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kaj/ [kaɪ̯]
• Rhymes: -aj
• Syllabification: kay

kay (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜌ᜔)

1. Used to mark oblique cases of personal nouns

   Ang awiting ito ay para kay Tatay.

   This song is for Father.

   Ibigay mo ito kay Juan.

   Give this to Juan.

kay (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜌ᜔)

1. how (used as a modifier to indicate surprise, delight, admirationor other strong feelings)

   Kay ganda ng tanawin.

   How beautiful is the scenery.

• “kay”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• yak

kay

1. second-person singular imperative of kaymak

kay

1. to eat

• cay (obsolete)

From Proto-Mayan *kyar.

kay (plural kayoʼob)

1. fish

• Academia de la Lengua Maya de Yucatán, A. C. (2003) Diccionario maya popular: Maya-español, español-maya (in Spanish), →ISBN, page 91: “KAY”
• Barrera Vásquez, Alfredo et al. (1980) Diccionario maya Cordemex: Maya-español, español-maya (in Spanish), Mérida: Ediciones Cordemex, page 307: “KAY”
• Beltrán de Santa Rosa María, Pedro (1746) Arte de el idioma maya reducido a succintas reglas, y semilexicon yucateco (in Spanish), Mexico: Por la Biuda de D. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, page 178: “Pexe. Cay.”
• Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 60: “kay”
• Pío Pérez, Juan (1866–1877) Diccionario de la lengua maya (in Spanish), Mérida de Yucatán: Imprenta literaria, de Juan F. Molina Solís, page 45: “CAY, CAYIL: pez, pescado.”