kay

• (abbreviation of okay): 'kay

From Latin ka.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪ

kay

1. (colloquial) Abbreviation of okay.

kay (plural kays)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter K.
2. (colloquial) A kilometer.
3. (colloquial) A thousand of some unit (from kilo-).
4. 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.

• (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

• kya, yak

• IPA^(key): /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)‎, 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): /kai/, [kaɪ̯]

kay

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

   An kantang ini, para kay papa.

   This song's for (my) father.

   Synonym: ki

kay

1. because

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

kay

1. house

kay

1. when

kay

1. when

kay

1. when

kay

1. when

From Old Irish ceó (“mist”).

• IPA^(key): /kʲeː/

kay f (genitive singular kay, plural kayghyn)

1. (weather) fog

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, 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, Abecedario orthography

• IPA^(key): /kaj/, [kaɪ̯]

kay

1. Used to mark oblique cases of personal nouns

   Ang awiting ito ay para kay papa.

   This song is for (my) father.

kay

1. very

   Kay husay nilang sumayaw.

   They dance very well.

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.”