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Chay is a masculine name. It is either a diminutive of Charles, [1] ultimately derived from Germanic Karal, Karel, Karl, meaning “man”, or it may be Gaelic in origin, meaning “Fairy Tale” [citation needed]. This unusual name surfaced into the public in Britain in the mid-1970s, with the publicity for yachtsman Chay Blyth.
Pa Chay Vue, (RPA: Paj Cai Vwj or Puas Cai Vwj; Pahawh: 𖬖𖬰𖬪𖬵 𖬋𖬯 𖬘𖬲𖬜), commonly referred to as Pa Chay or Batchai, led the Hmong people in the War of the Insane revolt against French rule in French Indochina from 1918 to 1921. He was considered a hero among the Hmong nationalists, but regarded as a crazed man among the ...
Chay (given name) Chay Weng Yew (1928–2004), Singaporean weightlifter; Jean-Yves Chay (born 1948), French football manager; Chay Wai Chuen (born 1950), Singaporean politician; Chay Yew (born 1965), American playwright; Mark Chay (born 1982), Singaporean swimmer; Chesster Chay (born 1989), Filipino actor
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Chay ( French pronunciation: [ʃaj] ) is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France .
The name, in use in England before 1700, came from the French word chaise, meaning chair. [3] [a] The spelling shay is a colloquial variant of chaise, particularly in North America. [5]: 146 A variant chay is slang and sometimes refers to other types of vehicle. [6]
Vue Pa Chay's revolt, also called War of the Insane or the Madman's War (Guerre du Fou) by French sources, was a Hmong revolt against taxation in the French colonial administration in Indochina lasting from 1918 to 1921. Vue Pa Chay, the leader of the revolt, regularly climbed trees to receive military orders from heaven. The French granted the ...
Signature used by Ernesto Guevara from 1960 until his death in 1967. His frequent use of the word "che" earned him this nickname. Che (/ tʃ eɪ /; Spanish:; Portuguese: tchê; Valencian: xe) is an interjection commonly used in Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil (São Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul) and Spain (), signifying "hey!", "fellow", "guy". [1]
a close relationship or connection; an affair. The French meaning is broader; liaison also means "bond"' such as in une liaison chimique (a chemical bond) lingerie a type of female underwear. littérateur an intellectual (can be pejorative in French, meaning someone who writes a lot but does not have a particular skill). [36] louche