Tai language (language in the Tai group of the Tai-Kadai family of languages)
çekim: çoğul thaikielet · tamlayan thaikielen
köken: thai (“Thai”) + kieli (“language”)
a surname from Chinese
köken: Sino-Vietnamese word from 蔡.
aile: người Thái, tiếng Thái, trà Thái, Thái Lan
Tai ethnic group, a widespread ethnic group of Southeast Asia associated with the valley paddy-rice culture. · Tai languages, a subfamily of the Tai-Kadai language family. Among the Tai languages are Thai, Lao, Shan, and Zhuang. · Siam; Siamese. (Now uses ไทย)
köken: Inherited from Proto-Southwestern Tai *dajᴬ² (“Tai people; freedom”), from Proto-Tai *ɗwɤːjᴬ (“free”). Cognate with Northern Thai ᨴᩱ, Lao ໄທ (thai) or obsolete ໄຕ (tai), Lü ᦺᦑ (tay), Tai Dam ꪼꪕ, Shan တႆး (tái), Aiton တ︀ႝ (tay), Phake တ︀ႝ (tay), Ahom 𑜄𑜩 (tay); when each word is solely used, it refers to its own ethnic group.
aile: ไทดำ, ไทใต้คง, ไทพวน, ไทลื้อ, ผู้ไท