different between kay vs fay

English

Alternative forms

• (abbreviation of okay): 'kay

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?

Interjection

kay

1. (colloquial) Abbreviation of okay.

Noun

kay (plural kays)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter K.
2. (colloquial) A kilometer.
3. (colloquial) A thousand of some unit (from kilo-).
4. Dated form of cay.

Derived terms

• (letter): okay, kayo

Translations

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed

Anagrams

• kya, yak

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?j/

Determiner

kay

1. his

See also

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Aguacateca

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaj/

Noun

kay

1. fish

References

• Julia Becker de Richards, Maya' Choltzij: vocabulario comparativo de los idiomas Mayas de Guatemala (2003)
• Ryan Bennett, Mayan Phonology (2015)

Dibabawon Manobo

Conjunction

kay

1. because

Haitian Creole

Noun

kay

1. house

Kalasha

Adverb

kay

1. when

Conjunction

kay

1. when

Noun

kay

1. when

Pronoun

kay

1. when

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish ceó (“mist”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?e?/

Noun

kay f (genitive singular kay, plural kayghyn)

1. (weather) fog

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 ceó”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Mapudungun

Conjunction

kay (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. and

Quechua

Determiner

kay

1. this

See also

• chay
• haqay

Noun

kay

1. being, essence

Declension

Pronoun

kay

1. this

Declension

Verb

kay

1. to be

2. to exist
3. An auxiliary verb

Conjugation

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• cay (obsolete, Abecedario orthography)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kai/, [kxa??]

Preposition

kay

1. Used to mark oblique cases of personal nouns

Adjective

kay

Turkish

Verb

kay

1. second-person singular imperative of kaymak

Yapese

Verb

kay

1. to eat

Yucatec Maya

Alternative forms

• cay (obsolete)

Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *kyar.

Noun

kay (plural kayo?ob)

1. fish

References

• Academia de la Lengua Maya de Yucatán, A. C. (2003) Diccionario maya popular: Maya-español, español-maya (in Spanish), ?ISBN, page 91: “KAY”
• Barrera Vásquez, Alfredo et al. (1980) Diccionario maya Cordemex: Maya-español, español-maya (in Spanish), Mérida: Ediciones Cordemex, page 307: “KAY”
• Beltrán de Santa Rosa María, Pedro (1746) Arte de el idioma maya reducido a succintas reglas, y semilexicon yucateco (in Spanish), Mexico: Por la Biuda de D. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, page 178: “Pexe. Cay.”
• Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., ?ISBN, page 60: “kay”
• Pío Pérez, Juan (1866–1877) Diccionario de la lengua maya (in Spanish), Mérida de Yucatán: Imprenta literaria, de Juan F. Molina Solís, page 45: “CAY, CAYIL: pez, pescado.”

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: f?, IPA^(key): /fe?/
• Homophone: fey
• Rhymes: -e?

Etymology 1

From Middle English feyen, feien, from Old English f??an (“to join, unite”), from Proto-Germanic *f?gijan? (“to join”), from *f?g? (“joint, slot”), from Proto-Indo-European *pa?- (“to fasten, place”). Akin to Old Frisian f?gia (“to join”), Old Saxon f?gian (“to join”), Middle Low German fögen (“to join, add”), Dutch voegen (“to add, place”), Old High German fuogen (“to connect”) (German fügen (“to connect”)), Old English f?n (“to catch”). More at fang.

Verb

fay (third-person singular simple present fays, present participle faying, simple past and past participle fayed)

1. To fit.
2. To join or unite closely or tightly.
   • Model Shipbuilders, 2010:

     I have a strip cutter and I can cut the exact widths I need to fit, they are easy to fay together and attach very firmly to the bulkheads.

3. To lie close together.
4. To fadge.

Synonyms

• (to join or unite closely): affix, attach, put together; see also Thesaurus:join

Derived terms

• faying surface

Translations

Adjective

fay (comparative more fay, superlative most fay)

1. Fitted closely together.
   • US Patent Application 20070033853, 2006:

     Under the four outer corners of the horizontal frame platform 22 are four tubular leg sleeves 23 that are fay together one at each outer corner.

Etymology 2

From Middle English fegien, fæien (“to cleanse”), from Old Norse fægja (“to cleanse, polish”), from Proto-Germanic *f?gijan? (“to decorate, make beautiful”), from Proto-Indo-European *p??-, *p??- (“to clean, adorn”). Cognate with Swedish feja (“to sweep”), Danish feje (“to sweep”), German fegen (“to cleanse, scour, sweep”), Dutch vegen (“to sweep, strike”). More at feague, fake, fair.

Verb

fay (third-person singular simple present fays, present participle faying, simple past and past participle fayed)

1. (dialectal) To cleanse; clean out.

Translations

Etymology 3

Middle English faie, fei (“a place or person possessed with magical properties”), from Middle French feie, fee (“fairy", "fae”). More at fairy.

Noun

fay (plural fays)

1. A fairy.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ii:

     that mighty Princesse did complaine / Of grieuous mischiefes, which a wicked Fay / Had wrought [...].

Synonyms

• See fairy

Translations

Adjective

fay (comparative more fay, superlative most fay)

1. Fairy like.

See also

• fey
• fae

Etymology 4

Abbreviation of ofay.

Noun

fay (plural fays)

1. (US slang) A white person.

Translations

Adjective

fay (comparative more fay, superlative most fay)

1. (US slang) White; white-skinned.
   • 1946, Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, Payback Press 1999, p. 62:

     I really went for Ray's press roll on the drums; he was the first fay boy I ever heard who mastered this vital foundation of jazz music.

Translations

Anagrams

• FYA, YAF

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English f?g.

Noun

fay

1. Alternative form of fou

Etymology 2

From Old English f??e.

Adjective

fay

1. Alternative form of fey (“marked for death”)