{"id":3033,"date":"2010-06-03T17:50:14","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T16:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=3033"},"modified":"2010-06-03T17:50:14","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T16:50:14","slug":"word-of-the-day-kai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=3033","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; kai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>kai<\/strong> \/kai\u032d\/ [M\u0101ori]<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> (verb) to eat, consume, feed (oneself), partake, devour.<\/li>\n<li>(noun) food, meal.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Related expressions include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>kai moana = seafood, shellfish<\/li>\n<li>w\u0101hi kai = caf\u00e9, restaurant (w\u0101hi = place)<\/li>\n<li>hari kai = a song to entertain visitors as food is set out (hari = joy, happiness)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The M\u0101ori word <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maoridictionary.co.nz\/index.cfm?dictionaryKeywords=kai&#038;search.x=0&#038;search.y=0&#038;search=search&#038;n=1&#038;idiom=&#038;phrase=&#038;proverb=&#038;loan=\"><em>kai<\/em><\/a> is mentioned quite a lot in the book I&#8217;m reading at the moment, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1596911263\/omniglot-20\"><em>Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All<\/em><\/a> by Christina Thompson: a memoir about the author&#8217;s life with her M\u0101ori husband which also discusses the history of the M\u0101ori, and contacts between them and other peoples. <\/p>\n<p>Other M\u0101ori words and concepts are also discussed, include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maoridictionary.co.nz\/index.cfm?dictionaryKeywords=iwi&#038;search.x=0&#038;search.y=0&#038;search=search&#038;n=1&#038;idiom=&#038;phrase=&#038;proverb=&#038;loan=\"><em>iwi<\/em><\/a>, which means an extended kinship group, a tribe, a nation, a people, a nationality or a race, and often refers to a large group of people descended from a common ancestor, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maoridictionary.co.nz\/index.cfm?dictionaryKeywords=utu&#038;search.x=0&#038;search.y=0&#038;search=search&#038;n=1&#038;idiom=&#038;phrase=&#038;proverb=&#038;loan=\"><em>utu<\/em><\/a>, which means revenge, cost, price, wage, fee, payment, salary, reciprocity, and is an important concept in M\u0101ori culture.<\/p>\n<p>Kai also means food in Tok Pisin, and <em>kaikai<\/em> means to eat. In Japanese kai (\u6d77 \u304b\u3044) means sea, among other things, though this reading of the kanji \u6d77 is derived from Chinese (hai) &#8211; the native Japanese word for sea is \u3046\u307f (umi).<\/p>\n<p>In Hawai&#8217;ian, <a href=\"http:\/\/wehewehe.org\/gsdl2.5\/cgi-bin\/hdict?e=q-0hdict--00-0-0--010---4----den--0-000lpm--1haw-Zz-1---Zz-1-home-kai--00031-0000escapewin-00&#038;a=q&#038;d=D6085\"><em>kai<\/em><\/a> means sea, sea water, gravy, sauce or soup, while food is <a href=\"http:\/\/wehewehe.org\/gsdl2.5\/cgi-bin\/hdict?e=q-0hdict--00-0-0--010---4----den--0-000lpm--1haw-Zz-1---Zz-1-home-food--00031-0000escapewin-00&#038;a=q&#038;d=D25566\"><em>\u02bbai<\/em><\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/wehewehe.org\/gsdl2.5\/cgi-bin\/hdict?a=q&#038;r=1&#038;hs=1&#038;e=q-0hdict--00-0-0--010---4----den--0-000lpm--1haw-Zz-1---Zz-1-home---00031-0000escapewin-00&#038;q=Mea%26%23699%3Bai&#038;j=pm&#038;hdid=0&#038;hdds=0\"><em>mea&#8217;ai<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>kai \/kai\u032d\/ [M\u0101ori] (verb) to eat, consume, feed (oneself), partake, devour. (noun) food, meal. Related expressions include: kai moana = seafood, shellfish w\u0101hi kai = caf\u00e9, restaurant (w\u0101hi = place) hari kai = a song to entertain visitors as food is set out (hari = joy, happiness) The M\u0101ori word kai is mentioned quite a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,129,10,24,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaiian","category-japanese","category-language","category-maori","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}