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

Cognate with 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”).

• (Standard) IPA^(key): /ˈʕɑ́ws/
• (Maay) IPA^(key): /ʔeːs/

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