gai
Basque
Adjective
gai
- Having sufficient power, strength, force, skill, means, or resources of any kind to accomplish the object; possessed of qualifications rendering competent for some end; competent; qualified; capable.
- zerbait egiteko gai izan - to be able to do something.
- ez naiz egiteko gai izan - I'm not been able to do it.
Catalan
Further reading
- “gai” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Etymology
From Old French gai, from Old Occitan gai, from Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌴𐌹𐍃 (gaheis, “impetuous”)[1]; or from Frankish *gāhi (“fast, sudden, impetuous”), Frankish *wāhi (“pretty”)[2]; or (per Liberman, Chance, Meier) from Latin vagus (“wandering, inconstant, flighty”), with *[w] → [g] as in French gaine[3]. Cognate with English gay and Italian gaio.
Derived terms
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- Picoche, Jacqueline; Jean-Claude Rolland (2009), “gai”, in Dictionnaire étymologique du français (in French), Paris: Dictionnaires Le Robert
- Dauzat, Albert; Jean Dubois, Henri Mitterand (1964) Nouveau dictionnaire étymologique (in French), Paris: Librairie Larousse
- http://blog.oup.com/2012/02/word-origin-roots-gay/
Further reading
- “gai” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Irish
Mandarin
Romanization
gai
Usage notes
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Old French
Etymology
Old Occitan, see below.
Old Occitan
Adjective
gai m or f (plural gais)
- happy; joyous
- circa 1145, Bernard de Ventadour, Lo gens tems de pascor:
- Per que tuih amador
Son gai e chantador- For all the lovers
are joyous and full of song
- For all the lovers
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Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ɣaːj˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ɣaːj˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ɣaːj˧˧]
Etymology 1
From Proto-Vietic *t-keː (“hemp-nettle”); cognate with Arem /takeː/ ("horn").
Etymology 2
From Proto-Vietic *-keː (“ramie”).
Zhuang
Pronunciation
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /kaːi˨˦/
- Tone numbers: gai1
- Hyphenation: gai
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