káy-kay

Verb vi.

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Français: Se promener
English: to stroll
العربية: تنزّه

Source : Christiansen-Bolli (2010), annexe IV — French and Arabic meanings translated from English, to be checked by the community

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). káy-kay (to stroll). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/632-kay-kay (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctarkaykay,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{káy-kay (to stroll)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/632-kay-kay},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… 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 roots shown …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 86
… erk/ ‘bad’ in Tamasheq. (113) Nouns found with agar agár borá bad person agár farká bad donkey agar léelaw slander agar a-hándag difficult/dangerous place agar káykay morally bad behavior agar íi-m-an dizzy spell agar ‘bad’ does not agree in number or gender with the noun it modifies. This is shown by the last example, agar íi-m-an which contains the plural noun íi-m-an ‘life, soul’, and by forms such as agar t-ǝ-mgad-an ‘bad girls’ with the feminine plural noun t-ǝ-mgad-an ‘ …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 136
… ed to the(ir) place where they live. In the gap strategy, the locative postposition occurs immediately after the head noun (‘place’, in example (19)). (19) A-f-kaykay har a-Ø-guna edag [# ka tahart a-Ø-hay]. 3S-IMPF-walk until 3S-PERF-see place LOC lioness 3S-PERF-give.birth She walked around till she saw a place where a lioness had given birth. In the following example of the gap strategy, the constituent modified by ka presents the source of the water. The head noun (‘a spr …

Christiansen & Levinsohn (2003), Relative Clauses in Tadaksahak, p. 7

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