Tai : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Tai	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Tai
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Tai adj of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand or its people; "Siamese kings"; "different Thai tribes live in the north" Synonym(s): Thai, Tai, Siamese of or relating to the languages of the Thai people; "Thai tones" Synonym(s): Thai, Tai, Siamese of or relating to Thailand; "the Thai border with Laos" Synonym(s): Thai, Tai, Siamese n a native or inhabitant of Thailand [syn: Thai, Tai, Siamese] the most widespread and best known of the Kadai family of languages
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tai \Tai\, a. Designating, or pertaining to, the chief linguistic stock of Indo-China, including the peoples of Siamese and Shan speech.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tai \Tai\, n. A member of one of the tribes of the Tai stock. 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. --Census of India, 1901.