Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
name
A unisex given name from the Germanic languages, of modern usage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A female given name of modern usage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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noun
Food.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, New-Zealand, informal, uncountable
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History
Taken into regular use in the 1990s, with earlier popularity peaks in Scandinavia and Germany. The medieval Danish Kaj is possibly of Roman origin, Latinized as Caius, like the rare medieval English male given name Kay. The German Kai may also derive from a West Frisian pet form of Gerard, Cornelius, Nicholas, or Kampe "warrior". In the U.S. Kai has also been explained as Hawaiian kai (“sea”).
Borrowed from Māori kai. Doublet of makan (via Malay) in Malaysian and Singaporean English varieties.
