kaj
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɑːd͡ʒ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːdʒ
Noun
kaj (plural kaj)
Translations
See also
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈkaj]
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Esperanto
Etymology
From Ancient Greek καί (kaí).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kaj]
- Audio:
(file) - Hyphenation: kaj
Conjunction
kaj
Coordinate terms
Marshallese
References
Polish
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaj/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -aj
- Syllabification: kaj
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]
References
- 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
- 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
- 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)
Declension
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Slovene
Etymology 1
From Proto-Slavic *jь appended to Proto-Slavic *ka, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷi-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kàːj/
Inflection
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /káj/
Pronoun
kȁj
Inflection
See also
Adverb
kȁj
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
References
- 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.”
- “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
audio (file) - Rhymes: -aj
Noun
kaj c
Declension
Declension of kaj | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | kaj | kajen | kajer | kajerna |
Genitive | kajs | kajens | kajers | kajernas |
Derived terms
- lastkaj