gai

gai

1. material
2. matter, stuff
3. topic, subject

gai

1. 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.

Borrowed from English gay.

gai (masculine and feminine plural gais)

1. gay, homosexual

gai m (plural gais)

1. gay man

• “gai” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Shortening.

• Hyphenation: ga‧i

gai

1. tagai

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.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛ/, /ɡe/

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• Homophones: gaie, gaies, gais, gay, gays
• Rhymes: -ɛ

gai (feminine singular gaie, masculine plural gais, feminine plural gaies)

1. cheerful; merry
2. gay; homosexual

• sombre
• triste

• gaillard

• “gai” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• agi

gai m (genitive singular gai, nominative plural gaethe)

1. Obsolete spelling of gae (“spear, dart; ray”)

gai

1. masculine plural of gaio

• agi, agì, già

gai

1. Rōmaji transcription of がい

gai

1. Nonstandard spelling of gāi.
2. Nonstandard spelling of gǎi.
3. Nonstandard spelling of gài.

• 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 Occitan, see below.

gai m (oblique and nominative feminine singular gaie)

1. happy; cheerful; gay

• English: gay
• Middle French: gay
  • French: gai
• Middle Dutch: gay
  • Dutch: gei, gaai

gai m or f (plural gais)

1. 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

From Portuguese galo and Spanish gallo.

gai

1. rooster

From Bengali.

gai

1. cow

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ɣaːj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ɣaːj˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ɣaːj˧˧]

From Proto-Vietic *t-keː (“hemp-nettle”); cognate with Arem /takeː/ ("horn").

(classifier cái) gai (荄, 𦃮)

1. hemp-nettle
2. thorn
3. prickle
4. (Central Vietnam) pineapple

From Proto-Vietic *-keː (“ramie”).

(classifier cây) gai

1. ramie

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /kaːi˨˦/
• Tone numbers: gai¹
• Hyphenation: gai

From Chinese 街 (jiē, “street”). Cognate with Bouyei gaail. Compare Cantonese 街 (gaai1).

gai (old orthography gai, Sawndip forms 街)

1. street

• daihloh
• dauhloh
• dingqroen
• loh
• maxloh
• roen
• roennou

From Proto-Tai *p.qaːj (“to sell”). Cognate with Thai ขาย (kǎai), Northern Thai ᨡᩣ᩠ᨿ, Lao ຂາຍ (khāi), Lü ᦃᦻ (ẋaay), Tai Dam ꪄꪱꪥ, Shan ၶၢႆ (khǎay), Ahom 𑜁𑜩 (khay), Bouyei gaail.

gai (old orthography gai, Sawndip forms 皆, 該, 开)

1. to sell