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cahys

cahys is the obsolete form of cahiz.

Meaning of cahiz

Noun

cahiz (plural cahizes)

  1. (historical) A traditional unit of dry measure equivalent to about 665.8 L.
    Synonyms:
    Spanish qafiz, qafiz
  2. (historical) A traditional measure of land area, vaguely reckoned as the amount of land required to sow a cahiz of seed.
    Synonyms:
    cahizada

Forms of cahys

pluralcahyses

Questions about cahys

What is cahys the obsolete form of?
Cahys is the obsolete form of cahiz.

Words near cahys in the dictionary

  1. Cahues
  2. Cahuilla
  3. Cahuillas
  4. Cahuita
  5. Cahul
  6. cahys
  7. cahyses
  8. CAI
  9. cai png
  10. Cai.
  11. Caian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cahys (page history and authors); cahiz (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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