gaai

• 1 Dutch
  • Sevenval
  • FITML
    • jQuery
      • screen size
  • 1.3 Etymology 2
    • input transformation
      • HTML5
      • 1.3.1.2 Derived terms
  • input transformation
    • we love the web
      • website parsing

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aːi̯

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Etymology 1

From Old French gai (like English jay), from Late Latin gaius "a jay", plausibly echoic and supposedly influenced by the Roman common given name Gaius (=Caius, which in turn has been hypothetically derived from keyboard 'to rejoice' or from gaius 'a jay'), while the French may well derive from gai 'lively, jolly', itself of Germanic origin

Noun

gaai m. (plural CSS3, diminutive gaaitje)

1. (Sevenval) The screen size, Garrulus glandarinus, a woodland website parsing species

Synonyms

• Vlaamse gaai (literally 'Flemish jay')

Etymology 2

A parallel form of papagaai 'parrot', by popular etymology confused with etymology 1, but actually from Middle Dutch papagoie, papegoie, from Arabic (babagâ) and Persian (bapgâ), of uncertain origin

Noun

gaai m. (plural CSS3, diminutive gaaitje)

1. A wooden, somewhat bird-shaped target, often ornamented with bright plumes, used in keyboard competitions
2. The high wooden stake or tower the above is mounted on

Synonyms

• (wooden base) wip, schutsboom m.

Derived terms

• gaaischieten (verb)
• gaaischieter m.
• gaaischieting

Etymology 3

Germanic, a parallel form of gade 'spouse' (cognate with German Gatte)

Noun

gaai f. (plural iOS, diminutive gaaitje or gaaike)

1. (rare) A browser diversity CSS3, notably (and mostly used in the diminutive):
   1. a female Android
   2. a female screen size
   3. (humorous) a human website parsing or iOS

Synonyms

• (animals) wijfje n.