caws

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɔːz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɔz/

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• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /kɑz/
• Homophones: cause; cores (non-rhotic)
• Rhymes: -ɔːz

caws

1. plural of caw

caws

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of caw

• AScW, WACs, WCAs, scaw

• coos

From Proto-Somaloid *ʕaws, from Proto-East Cushitic *ʕawš, derived from Proto-Cushitic *ʕaw- (“grass, foliage”). Compare also cawl.

Cognate with Maay ees, Garre aas, Tunni ees, Rendille h'os, Jiiddu is, Daasanach iish, Saho cashsho, Afar qayso, Sidamo hayisso, Tsamai ʕaš (“corn”) and possibly Oromo ees (“oat”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʡ͜ʢǽʉs/

cáws m

1. grass

   Gelu cawska bay daaqeen ― The camels grazed the grass^[1]

• Puglielli, A., & Mansuur, C. C. (2012). "Qaamuuska Af‒Soomaaliga" (in Somali). Roma: Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente, page 139

From Middle Welsh caws, from Old Welsh caus, from Proto-Brythonic *kọs, a borrowing from Latin cāseus. Cognate with Cornish keus, Breton keuz.

• IPA^(key): /kau̯s/
• Rhymes: -au̯s

caws m (uncountable, diminutive cosyn)

1. cheese; curds; a cheese

• bara a chaws (“bread and cheese”)
• cawslyd (“cheesy”)
• cosyn (“a cheese (countable)”)
• lliain caws (“cheesecloth”)

• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “caws”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “caws”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies