cah

cah (plural cahs)

1. (US, eastern Massachusetts) Pronunciation spelling of car.

Borrowed from Jamaican Creole cah (“because”). Ultimately from English because.

• cuh

cah

1. (slang, Jamaica, MLE) Because.
   • 2019, “Going Through It” (track 6), in Ignorance Is Bliss, performed by Skepta:

     Gotta get more organised, 'cah fam, I hate rushing

   • 2020 October 14, @SHBK4L, Twitter‎^[1]:

     Man said 1 out of a benners lool bro sack your dealer & pick up off man cah that is brazyyy 🤣🤣

• -cha, ACH, CHA, Cha, HAC, HCA, ach, cha

From Proto-Nahuan [Term?], from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *katïC (“sit”).

• IPA^(key): [caʔ]

cah (irregular)

1. to be (somewhere), to be located
   • 1649, Luis Laso de la Vega, translated by Lisa Sousa, Stafford Poole, C.M., and James Lockhart, The Story of Guadalupe Luis Laso de la Vega’s Huei tlamahuiçoltica of 1649, pages 90-91:

     Auh in oàçico nimã quineltili, quiquetz in iTeocaltzin in iTeòcaltzin in itlaçòixiptltzin in ilhuicac Çihuapilli moteneuhtzinoa Remedios in oncan axcan moyetztica.

     When he arrived, he immediately carried it out; he built the small temple for the precious image of the heavenly Lady, called Remedies, where she is now.

   • 1889, Bernardino de Sahagún, translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson, Charles E. Dibble, Florentine Codex‎^[2], volume 9, folio 5r:

     Ca izcatqui in amocococauh, in amelchiquiuh, in amotzontecon ipatiuh omuchiuh: aiac amechcaoaltiz ca nel amasca, amotlatqui ca ooanquimacehoato.

     Behold (lit: here are) your possessions, which became the recompense of your breasts [and] your heads. None will refuse it to you, for it is truly your property, your array.

2. (copulative) to be
   • 1889, Bernardino de Sahagún, translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson, Charles E. Dibble, Florentine Codex‎^[3], volume 6, folio 60r:

     In titecpiltontli, auh in tiquauhtli, in tocelotl: tle tiez

     Thou nobleman, thou eagle warrior, thou ocelot warrior: what art thou to be?

   • 1889, Bernardino de Sahagún, translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson, Charles E. Dibble, Florentine Codex‎^[4], volume 6, folio 110v:

     aiocmo tiuhqujn tipiltontli tiyez, aiocmo iuhqujn ticonetontli tiyez

     no longer art thou to be like a child, no longer art thou to be like a girl.

3. (auxiliary, with incorporated verb) indicates stative aspect
   • 2017, Louise M. Burkhart, transl., edited by Barry D. Sell, Abelardo de la Cruz, John Sullivan, and Justyna Olko, In Citlalmachiyotl. The Star Sign: A Colonial Nahua Drama of the Three Kings, pages 55, 78:

     HERODES: Tla xihualhuian, in amehhuantin in antlamatinimeh, in anteopixqueh. ¿Quen anquimatih ihuan quen anquittah in ipan teoamoxtli? ¿Campa ye ihcuiliuhticah? ¿Campa ye mac[hiyotihti?]cah?

     HEROD: Please come here, you sages, you priests. What do you know and what do you see in the sacred books? Where is it written? Where is it [marked?]?

• This verb is irregular; it has the plural (present) form cateh.
• The honorific form is built on the stem (mo)-yetzticah

When used copulatively with an overt argument, person marking is normally required on the argument, with the exception of some forms which cannot bear person marking (e.g. tleh 'what').

• Michel Launay with Christopher Mackay (2011) An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, Amazon Kindle: Cambridge University Press, page Loc 1586

cah

1. (Classical K'iche') sky

From Old Irish cath, from Primitive Irish ᚉᚐᚈᚈᚒ (cattu), from Proto-Celtic *katus, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₃tus (“fight”).

cah m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. battle