cais

cais

1. plural of cai

• IPA^(key): [kaʃ]

cais

1. inflection of cas (“twisted, winding; curly; complicated, intricate; twisty, devious”):
   1. vocative/genitive masculine singular
   2. (archaic) dative feminine singular

From Vulgar Latin *capseum (“chin”). Compare Catalan queix.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkajs/

cais m (plural caisses)

1. jaw
2. mouth
3. cheek

• escais

• cays, caes, cayz (obsolete)

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ajs, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -ajʃ
• Homophone: cás (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: cais

From French quai, from Old French cail, from Gaulish cagiíum.

cais m (invariable)

1. quay, wharf, pier
2. platform

• píer m

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cais

1. second-person singular present indicative of cair

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cais f pl

1. plural of cal

Back-formation from caisă (“apricot fruit”), from Ottoman Turkish قیصی (kayısı).

cais m (plural caiși)

1. apricot (tree)

• IPA^(key): /kai̯s/
• Rhymes: -ai̯s

cais m (plural ceisiadau or ceisiau)

1. effort, attempt

   Synonyms: ymgais, cynnig, ymdrech, ymroddiad

2. request, petition, application

   Synonyms: dymuniad, deisyfiad, arch, ymofyniad, galwad

3. (rugby) try
4. (literary) quest

• ceisio (“to attempt, to try”)
• ceislen (“application form”)
• ffurflen gais (“application form”)
• ymgais (“attempt”)

cais

1. third-person singular present indicative/future of ceisio

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cais”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

• IPA^(key): /cai̯˩/

cais

1. to separate from, exclude, segregate, split

   Lawv cais nws tawm hauv tsev neeg. ― They exclude him from the family.

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN.