Pali

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Alternative forms

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Adjective

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ตาย

  1. (demonstrative) Thai script form of tāya, which is genitive/dative/instrumental/ablative/locative singular feminine of (ta, that)

Pronoun

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ตาย f

  1. (demonstrative) Thai script form of tāya, which is genitive/dative/instrumental/ablative/locative singular of ตา (, her)

Thai

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Etymology

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From Proto-Southwestern Tai *taːjᴬ² (to die), from Proto-Tai *p.taːjᴬ (to die). Cognate with Northern Thai ᨲᩣ᩠ᨿ, Lao ຕາຍ (tāi), ᦎᦻ (ṫaay), Tai Dam ꪔꪱꪥ, Tai Dón ꪔꪱꪥ, Tai Daeng ꪔꪱꪥ, Shan တၢႆ (tǎai), Tai Nüa ᥖᥣᥭ (taay), Khamti တၢဲႈ, Phake တႝ (tay), Ahom 𑜄𑜩 (tay), Zhuang dai, Zuojiang Zhuang tai or hai. Compare Proto-Be *ɗaːjᴬ¹, Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *atay (death).[1]

Pronunciation

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Orthographic/Phonemicตาย
t ā y
RomanizationPaiboondtaai
Royal Institutetai
(standard) IPA(key)/taːj˧/(R)

Verb

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ตาย (dtaai) (abstract noun การตาย or ความตาย)

  1. to die: to cease to live; to be or become dead.
  2. (of a machine, bodily organ, etc) to die: to stop; to cease to function.

Adverb

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ตาย (dtaai)

  1. (slang, sometimes sarcastic) to death: to a great degree, to excess.

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*aCay”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI