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tai
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun tai has 2 senses
- tai(n = noun.person) siamese, thai - a native or inhabitant of Thailand; Array is a member of kingdom of thailand, siam, thailand
- tai(n = noun.communication) Array - the most widespread and best known of the Kadai family of languages; Array is a kind of kadai, kadai language, kam-tai
is a kind of asian, asiatic
has particulars: white tai, red tai, black tai, tai dam, chinese shan, dehong dai, tai nuea, shan, tai long, tai lue, xishuangbanna dai, kam muang, tai yuan, khuen, lao, khamti, southern tai, tay, nung, tho, central thai, siamese, thai, bouyei, buyi, zhuang, yay, saek
Adjective tai has 3 senses
- tai(a = adj.pert) siamese, thai - of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand or its people; "Siamese kings"; "different Thai tribes live in the north"
- tai(a = adj.pert) siamese, thai - of or relating to the languages of the Thai people; "Thai tones"
- tai(a = adj.pert) siamese, thai - of or relating to Thailand; "the Thai border with Laos"
CIDE DICTIONARY
tai, a.
Designating, or pertaining to, the chief linguistic stock of Indo-China, including the peoples of Siamese and Shan speech. It includes the Thai language. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
tai, n.
A member of one of the tribes of the Tai stock.
"The Tais first appeared in history in Yunnan, and from thence they migrated into Upper Burma. The earliest swarms appear to have entered that tract about two thousand years ago, and were small in number."
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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