Clipping of English Caucasian.

cau

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Caucasian languages.

cau m (plural caos)

1. alternative spelling of cabu

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkaw]

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• Rhymes: -aw

Inherited from Latin cavum, cavus.

cau m (plural caus)

1. den; burrow; lair
2. (by extension) hiding place
3. (figuratively) sty; hovel

• a cau d'orella

• cavar
• cavitat
• còncau
• excavar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cau

1. inflection of caure:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From clipping of English caution.

cau

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to caution (especially in a legal process)

• English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese

From Proto-Austronesian *Cau. Cognates with Tagalog tao, Cebuano tawo.

cau

1. person

From Latin cavus.

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cau m (feminine singular cava, masculine plural caus, feminine plural cavas)

1. hollow

Possibly from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɟuuʔ (“wild banana”). Compare to Balinese biu and Buginese biyu (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

cau (Sundanese script ᮎᮅ)

1. banana

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kaw˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kaw˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ka(ː)w˧˧]

From Proto-Vietic *kaw.

(classifier cây, trái) cau • (榚, 槁, 槔, 橰, 构)

1. areca

   Synonym: nang

• trầu cau

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

cau • (皋, 皐, 󰎹)

1. to frown

• cau có

From Middle Welsh cael, from Old Welsh ci, from Proto-Brythonic *kėɣɨd, from Proto-Celtic *kageti, from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰ- (“catch, grasp”) (compare Oscan 𐌊𐌀𐌇𐌀𐌃 (kahad, “may he take”), Albanian kam (“to have, hold”).^[1]

• caeu (obsolete)

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /kaɨ̯/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /kai̯/
• Rhymes: -aɨ̯

cau (first-person singular present caeaf)

1. (ambitransitive) to close, shut
2. (transitive) to fasten
3. (intransitive) to heal, to close

• agor

• cae (“enclosure, field”)
• caer (“castle, hold”)

From Middle Welsh keu, from Proto-Brythonic *kaw (whence Breton kev), from Proto-Celtic *kawyos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- (“to swell”). Cognate with Irish cuas, Latin cavus.^[1]

• (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /kaɨ̯/
• (South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /kai̯/
  • (South Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /kɔi̯/

cau (feminine singular cau, plural ceuon, equative ceued, comparative ceuach, superlative ceuaf)

1. hollow, empty, sunken
2. (figuratively) false, deceitful
3. enclosing; shut, closed

• solet (“solid”)

• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “cau”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin