quay

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• UK: kē
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• UK: /kiː/
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• Ireland: /keɪ/
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• US: /kiː/
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• US: /keɪ/
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• US: /kweɪ/
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• rhymes with -iː
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• rhymes with -eɪ
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• homophone: key
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• CMU ARPABET: K IY1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: K EY1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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The current spelling replaced the spelling key in the 1690s to emulate the spelling but (at least originally) not the pronunciation of the equivalent modern French quai. From Middle English kay, key, kaye, keye, from Old French kay, cail, from Gaulish *kagyum, cagiíun (“enclosure”), from Proto-Celtic *kagyom (“pen, enclosure”) (compare Welsh cae (“field”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kaghyóm (“enclosure”). Doublet of hedge and hey (“choreographic figure”).

89 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: رَصِيف الْمِينَاء (raṣīf al-mīnāʔ) — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Basque: kaia — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Belarusian: на́бярэжная (nábjarežnaja) — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Bulgarian: кей (kej) — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Bulgarian: приста́нище (pristánište) — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Catalan: embarcador — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Catalan: moll — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Chinese Mandarin: 碼頭 /码头 — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Chinese Mandarin: 埠頭 /埠头 — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Chinese Mandarin: 船埠 (chuánbù) — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Cornish: kay — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Czech: nábřeží — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Czech: přístaviště — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Czech: přístavní hráz — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Danish: kaj — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Dutch: kade — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Dutch: kaai — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Esperanto: kajo — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Estonian: kai — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Faroese: kai — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Faroese: kei — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Finnish: laituri — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• French: quai — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Galician: caes — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Galician: cai — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Galician: peirao — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Galician: peirau — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Galician: embarcadoiro — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Georgian: ნავსაბმელი (navsabmeli) — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Georgian: ნავთსადგომი (navtsadgomi) — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Georgian: ნავმისადგომი (navmisadgomi) — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• German: Kai — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• German: Anlegestelle — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• German: Pier — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Greek: προκυμαία (prokymaía) — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Hebrew: מֶזַח (mézakh) — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Hungarian: rakpart — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Hungarian: rakodópart — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Indonesian: dermaga — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Irish: cé — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Italian: banchina — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Japanese: 波止場 (hatoba) — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Japanese: 埠頭 (futō) — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Korean: 부두 (budu) — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Latvian: piestātne — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Lithuanian: prieplauka — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Macedonian: кеј (kej) — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Macedonian: пристаниште (pristanište) — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Malay: dermaga — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Malay: jeti — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Manx: keiy — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Nahuatl: tlalmantli — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Norwegian Bokmål: kai — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kai — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Polish: molo — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Polish: nabrzeże — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Polish: keja — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Portuguese: cais — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Portuguese: embarcadouro — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Portuguese: ancoradouro — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Romanian: chei — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Russian: на́бережная (náberežnaja) — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Russian: прича́л (pričál) — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Russian: мол (mol) — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Russian: при́стань (prístanʹ) — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Sanskrit: घट्ट (ghaṭṭa) — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Scottish Gaelic: laimrig — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Serbo-Croatian: прѝстанӣште — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Serbo-Croatian: до̏к — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Serbo-Croatian: мо̑л — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Serbo-Croatian: кеј — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Serbo-Croatian: prìstanīšte — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Serbo-Croatian: dȍk — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Serbo-Croatian: mȏl — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Serbo-Croatian: kej — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Slovak: nábreží — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Slovene: pomol — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Spanish: muelle — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Spanish: embarcadero — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Swedish: kaj — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Tagalog: pantalan — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Turkish: rıhtım — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Turkish: iskele — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Ottoman Turkish: اسكله (iskele) — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Ottoman Turkish: ریختم (rıhtım) — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Ukrainian: на́бережна (náberežna) — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Vietnamese: ke — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Vietnamese: bờ xây — structure for loading and unloading vessels
• Welsh: cei — structure for loading and unloading vessels