'Tai' definitions:

Definition of 'Tai'

adjective

Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand or its people; "Siamese kings"; "different Thai tribes live in the north" [syn: Thai, Tai, Siamese]

adjective

Of or relating to the languages of the Thai people; "Thai tones" [syn: Thai, Tai, Siamese]

adjective

Of or relating to Thailand; "the Thai border with Laos" [syn: Thai, Tai, Siamese]

noun

A native or inhabitant of Thailand [syn: Thai, Tai, Siamese]

noun

The most widespread and best known of the Kadai family of languages

From: GCIDE

Tai \Tai\ (t[aum]"[-e]), a. Designating, or pertaining to, the chief linguistic stock of Indo-China, including the peoples of Siamese and Shan speech. It includes the Thai language. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From: GCIDE

Tai \Tai\, n. A member of one of the tribes of the Tai stock.
The Tais first appeared in history in Yunnan, and from thence they migrated into Upper Burma. The earliest swarms appear to have entered that tract about two thousand years ago, and were small in number. --Census of India, 1901. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]