Cais
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "cais"
Galician
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Arabic قَادِس (qādis), from Latin Gades. Doublet of Cádiz.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Cais
- Cádiz (a city in Cádiz, Spain)
- 1812, Ramón González Senra, Carta recomendada:
- oín eu decer en Cais unha vez que un reino que lle chaman Bolanda , que non é máis grande nin millor que Galicia, fixera máis de dous mil navíos en poucos anos, e andaba levando e traendo dun lado para o outro como os maragatos, e ganaban millós
- I heard once in Cádiz that there is a kingdom called Holland, which is no larger of better than Galicia, which built more than two thousand large ships in just a few years, and was carrying from here to there, as muleteers, and they earned millions
References
[edit]- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “Cais”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “Cais”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega