Káy

Verb vi.

Translations

Français: Être droit, debout, s'arrêter
English: Upright, to be; stop, to
العربية: يكون مستقيماً، واقفاً، يتوقف

Source : the site’s first dictionary (Swadesh list)

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). Káy (Upright, to be; stop, to). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/202-kay (accessed 2026-10-18)

BibTeX

@misc{moctarupright,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{Káy (Upright, to be; stop, to)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/202-kay},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… be placed (13) run zuru zezel azǝl to run (14) sit gora ʃaɣam neɣima ɣamu to sit ‘sit together’ (15) spend the day hoɣay sekla ăklu to spend the day (16) stop kay sebded ǝbdǝd to stop (17) suckle kamkam10 senkes ǝṇkǝs to suckle (18) be upright kay soɣta11 aseɣti he planted (tree) (19) walk dida ʒiʒuwenket ʒǝwǝnkǝt to walk 7Glosses in the infinitive are from Prasse 1998, using the forms from Tawǝllǝmmǝt, the Tamasheq dialect spoken east of the Tadaksahak area in the Azawaɣ re …

Christiansen & Christiansen (2002), Some verb morphology features of Tadaksahak, or: Berber or Songhay, this is the question, p. 11
… al morphology are borrowed from Tamasheq. (24) Songhay roots suppleted by Tamasheq cognates root reciprocal gloss root/ derived suppleted root Tamasheq cognate káy n-ǝbdǝd to stop/stand together ǝbdǝd na n-ǝkfa to give/give each other ǝkfa ṭáaṭab n-ǝẓmi to sew/sew together ǝẓmǝy gorá nǝ-ɣiima to sit/sit together ɣamu The double prefix is very frequent with suppletive roots and mostly indicates reciprocals. (25) Suppletive roots with double prefix root reciprocal gloss root gl …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 81
… ensification’ for qualifying verbs (b). (32) Reduplication of Songhay cognates a) b) root báq gloss to break duplicated gloss to split (into many small pieces) káy to stand káykay to stroll (stop many times) háw to attach háwhaw to attach many kós to cut koskós to cut in pieces mún to throw out munmún to throw out (repeatedly) cidáy to be red cidícidi to be very red kóoray to be white korókoray to be very white ceená to be small cinícina to be very small báqbaq The disyllabic …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 86

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