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The word is also spelled cay and comes from the Spanish cayo. It means a low offshore island, often made of coral.
My Muret-Sanders Encyclopaedic (and often Etymologic!) German-English and English-German Dictionary of 1908 says in its English-German Part:
key 1.... (same roots as ancient German Keil = wedge) Schlüssel
key 2.... (geographic) e.g. Key-West, syn. = cay
cay ..... (geographic) (roots Celtic!) Sandbank = sands, sand-bank; Riff = reef; Inselchen = tiny island
Conclusion: The Celtic (Galicia in Spain) - Spanish - Caribbean root must be the right one.
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