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Bay
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Appendix:Variations of "bay"
English
Pronunciation
en eɪ 1
Etymology 1
en Somalia :bor so:
From en so.
Proper noun
en region c/Somalia.
Further reading
Bay, Somalia
Etymology 2
From en bay.
Proper noun
the Bay
en informal en @ellipsis of:San Francisco Bay Area<pos:metropolitan area in California> geographic region s/California c/USA.
en informal en @ellipsis of:San Francisco Bay bay *of the Pacific Ocean in s/California c/USA.
Translations
area
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 灣區 waan1 keoi1
Mandarin: cmn 灣區 Wānqū
bay
Spanish: es La Bahía
French: fr La Baie
Irish: ga Contae Bá Naoimh Proinsias
Further reading
en San Francisco Bay
Proper noun
+ (surname)
s
en
Derived terms
en Bayformers Bayhem
Statistics
According to the 2010 United States Census, Bay is the 5477th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 6,350 individuals. Bay is most common among White (59.0%) and Black/African American (34.6%) individuals.
Anagrams
en aby aby yBa bya Aby ABY yab YBA
Danish
Proper noun
da
Somali
Etymology
From so ar جَلْجَدُود.
Proper noun
so proper noun
en Bay so region c/Somalia
Tagalog
Alternative forms
tl Bae Bai Ba'e Ba'i
tl Vahi obsolete Abecedario
Etymology
Possibly related to poz-pro *bahi woman; female (cf. tl babae). The letter y was also used for /i/ in Spanish orthography (cf. tl ylang-ylang). English-influenced pronunciation is from en bay.
Pronunciation
Ba7ý +<qq:spelling influence> Bey<qq:English influence><qq:proscribed><syll:Bay> Ba7ŷ<qq:obsolete>
Proper noun
Baý bae,bay
tl municipality p/Laguna c/Philippines Bay
See also
tl Pulilan
Further reading
75
Bay, Laguna tl