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TAY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Tay mean?
• TAY (noun)
The noun TAY has 1 sense:
1. a branch of the Tai languages
Familiarity information: TAY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A branch of the Tai languages
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Tay" is a kind of...):
Tai (the most widespread and best known of the Kadai family of languages)
Context examples
We left Edinburgh in a week, passing through Coupar, St. Andrew’s, and along the banks of the Tay, to Perth, where our friend expected us.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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