เค้า
káonoun
[colloquial] pronoun 'he / she / they' (also a cutesy 'I'); separately a noun 'outline / sign / trace'
Meanings
every sense kept, sourced — never invented1n.
signlexitron
2n.
indication; tokenlexitron
3n.
trace, imprint, stamp (as of ancestry); vestige; outlinewiktionary
4n.
origin, beginning, primary causewiktionary
5n.
owlwiktionary
6pron.
he, she, they(colloquial)wiktionary
7pron.
I; oneself(colloquial)wiktionary
Built from
From Proto-Tai *ɡawꟲ (“owl”). In Southwestern Tai, cognate with Lao ເຄົ້າ (khao), Shan ၵဝ်ႉ (kâ̰o), Tai Dam ꪹꪁ꫁ꪱ, Ahom 𑜀𑜧 (kaw). In other Tai, cognate with Zuojiang Zhuang guq (Longzhou dialect) or kaeuj in duo'kaeuj (“owl”) (Daxin dialect). Corrupted from เขา (kǎo).
A note on usage
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