kaj

See also: Kaj

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Armenian քաջ (kʿaǰ), քաջք (kʿaǰkʿ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɑːd͡ʒ/
    • (file)
    • Rhymes: -ɑːdʒ

Noun

kaj (plural kaj)

  1. (Armenian mythology) A spirit of storm and wind; can be both ugly and beautiful
    • 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.

Translations

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Anagrams

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkaj]

Adverb

kaj

  1. (dialectal, Moravia, Silesia) where (position or direction)
    Synonyms: kde, kam

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

kaj

  1. second-person singular imperative of kát

Danish

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ajˀ
  • Rhymes: -aj

Noun

kaj c (singular definite kajen, plural indefinite kajer)

  1. pier, dock

Declension

References

Esperanto

Etymology

From Ancient Greek καί (kaí).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kaj]
  • Audio:
    (file)
  • Hyphenation: kaj

Conjunction

kaj

  1. and
    La oldulo kaj la maroThe old man and the sea
    kaj … kajboth … and
    Antonym: nek

Synonyms

  • &
  • k
  • (text messaging) K

Coordinate terms

K'iche'

Noun

kaj

  1. sky

References

Marshallese

Pronunciation

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

Noun

kaj (construct form kajin)

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

References

Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

kaj

  1. (Kraków, Częstochowa, Upper Silesia, Podhale) where
    Synonym: gdzie

Romani

Etymology

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

Adverb

kaj

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

References

  1. Boretzky, Norbert; Igla, Birgit (1994), “kaj”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 132a
  2. Michael Beníšek (August 2020), “The Historical Origins of Romani”, in Yaron Matras; Anton Tenser, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 32-33
  3. Marcel Courthiade (2009), “kaj”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (in Hungarian; English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 184a

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkâj/

Pronoun

kȁj (Cyrillic spelling ка̏ј)

  1. (Kajkavian) what (interrogative)
    Kaj si rekel?What did you say?
  2. (Kajkavian) what (relative)
    Nisam znal kaj si želil.I didn't know what you wanted.
  3. (Kajkavian) any, some
Declension
Synonyms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

kaj (Cyrillic spelling кај)

  1. second-person singular imperative of kajati

Slovene

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kàːj/

Pronoun

káj

  1. what (interrogative)
Inflection

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /káj/

Conjunction

kȁj

  1. what

Pronoun

kȁj

  1. any, anything, something
    Se med vama kaj plete?Is there anything going on between you two?
Inflection
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Adverb

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.

Further reading

  • kaj”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Sudovian

Etymology

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

Noun

kaj

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

References

  1. Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985), Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica (in Lithuanian), volume 21, issue 1, page 74:kaj ‘koja, l. noga’ 7.”
  2. kója” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–): “nar. s. kaj Bein, Fuß”.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old French kay, cail (modern French quai), from Gaulish cagiíum (enclosure), from Proto-Celtic *kagyom (pen, enclosure) (compare Welsh cae (hedge)).

Pronunciation

  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -aj

Noun

kaj c

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

Declension

Declension of kaj 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative kaj kajen kajer kajerna
Genitive kajs kajens kajers kajernas

Derived terms

  • lastkaj

Anagrams

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