i Register
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tai
UK /taɪ/ US /taɪ/
name 12noun 4
Definitions
noun
1
A fish, the Japanese bream.
name
1
A local government area of Rivers State, Nigeria.
2
A female given name from Chinese.
3
A branch of the Tai-Kadai language family, including Thai, Lao, Shan, and Zhuang.
noun
1
A descendant of speakers of a common proto-Tai language, including subpopulations which no longer speak a Tai language.
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.
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