caws

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɔːz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɔz/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /kɑz/
• Homophones: cause; cores (non-rhotic)
• Rhymes: -ɔːz

caws

1. plural of caw

caws

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of caw

• AScW, WACs, WCAs, scaw

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Afar qayso and Sidamo hayisso.

caws m

1. grass

From Middle Welsh caws, from Old Welsh caus, from Proto-Brythonic *kọs, a borrowing from Latin cāseus. Cognate with Cornish keus, Breton keuz.

• IPA^(key): /kau̯s/
• Rhymes: -au̯s

caws m (uncountable)

1. cheese; curds; a cheese

• bara a chaws (“bread and cheese”)
• cawslyd (“cheesy”)
• cosyn (“a cheese (countable)”)

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