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fai

See also: FAI, fái, Fäi, fāi, fa'i, and fā'i

Aromanian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Albanian faj. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Noun edit

fai f (plural fãi)

  1. fault; sin

Synonyms edit

Asturian edit

Verb edit

fai

  1. third-person singular present indicative of faer
  2. second-person singular imperative of faer

Galician edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

fai

  1. inflection of facer:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
  2. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of fazer:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading edit

  • “fazer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “facer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.

Italian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈfaj/
  • Rhymes: -aj
  • Hyphenation: fài

Etymology 1 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Alternative forms edit

Verb edit

fai

  1. inflection of fare:
    1. second-person singular present
    2. second-person singular imperative
Related terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun edit

fai m

  1. plural of faio

Anagrams edit

Ladin edit

Noun edit

fai

  1. plural of fal

Li'o edit

Noun edit

fai

  1. woman

References edit

  • P. Sawardo, Struktur bahasa Lio (1987) (fai / ata fai)
  • Louise Baird, A Grammar of Kéo: An Austronesian Language of East Nusantara (2002) (fai)

Maybrat edit

Noun edit

fai

  1. woman

References edit

  • A Grammar of Maybrat: A Language of the Bird's Head Peninsula, Papua Province, Indonesia (2007)

Ngadha edit

Noun edit

fai

  1. woman

References edit

  • Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science (2002): The Ngadha idiom is fai weta, [...] (fai is 'woman' or 'wife')
  • Stephanus Djawanai, Ngadha Text Tradition: The Collective Mind of the Ngadha (1983), page 102

Romansch edit

Etymology edit

From Latin fidem.

Noun edit

fai f (plural fais)

  1. faith

Sardinian edit

Verb edit

fai (Campidanese)

  1. Alternative form of fàghere (“to do; make”)

Ternate edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

fai

  1. (intransitive) to dig

Conjugation edit

Conjugation of fai
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st tofai fofai mifai
2nd nofai nifai
3rd Masculine ofai ifai, yofai†
Feminine mofai
Neuter ifai
† - archaic

References edit

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Tetum edit

Etymology edit

From *bayi.

Verb edit

fai

  1. to pound
  2. to crash into

Tokelauan edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈha.i]
  • Hyphenation: fa‧i

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-Polynesian *fai. Cognates include Maori whai and Samoan fai.

Verb edit

fai

  1. (transitive) to do
  2. (transitive) to make
  3. (transitive) to fetch
  4. (transitive) to install
  5. (transitive) to repair
  6. (transitive) to manufacture
  7. (transitive) to be adopted
  8. (transitive, of clothes) to wear
  9. (transitive, of orders) to give

Etymology 2 edit

From Proto-Polynesian *fai. Cognates include Tongan fai and Samoan fai.

Verb edit

fai

  1. (transitive) to rehearse
  2. (transitive) to perform

Etymology 3 edit

From Proto-Polynesian *fai. Cognates include Tongan fai and Samoan fai.

Verb edit

fai

  1. (transitive) to be in progress

Etymology 4 edit

 
Te fai (4.1).
 
Te fai (5.1).
 
Te fai (5.2).

From Proto-Polynesian *fai. Cognates include Maori whai and Samoan fai.

Noun edit

fai

  1. whipray of the genus Himantura

Etymology 5 edit

Borrowed from Samoan faʻi.

Noun edit

fai

  1. banana tree
  2. banana fruit

References edit

  • R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎[1], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 51

Welsh edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

fai

  1. Soft mutation of bai.

Verb edit

fai

  1. Soft mutation of bai.

Mutation edit

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
bai fai mai unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

West Makian edit

Etymology 1 edit

Cognate with Ternate hai (“centipede”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

fai

  1. a millipede, milliped

Etymology 2 edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

fai

  1. shoulder

Etymology 3 edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

fai

  1. wing
    Synonym: payapaya

References edit

  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎[2], Pacific linguistics (as fáy and fay)

Zhuang edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Tai *hwa:jᴬ. Cognate with Thai ฝาย (fǎai), Northern Thai ᨺᩣ᩠ᨿ, Lao ຝາຍ (fāi), Lü ᦚᦻ (ḟaay), Shan ၽၢႆ (phǎai) or ၾၢႆ (fǎai), Bouyei waail.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

fai (Sawndip forms 𭎶 or 𰄂 or ⿰土非 or 沸 or 𣳢 or ⿰氵⿱正⿰正正 or ⿰木⿱正⿰正正 or 𫮏 or ⿰洡𠂢 or 湃 or 渄, 1957–1982 spelling fai)

  1. dam
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