See also: filí, Fíli, and fíli-

Catalan edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

fili

  1. inflection of filar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Hausa edit

Etymology edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /fíː.líː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [ɸíː.líː]

Noun edit

fīlī m (plural fīlā̀yē, possessed form fīlin)

  1. open field, plot of land, square
  2. (by extension) opportunity, chance, opening

Italian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈfi.li/
  • Rhymes: -ili
  • Hyphenation: fì‧li

Noun edit

fili m

  1. plural of filo

Verb edit

fili

  1. inflection of filare:
    1. second-person singular present indicative
    2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
    3. third-person singular imperative

Latin edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

fīlī m

  1. genitive/vocative singular of fīlius

Noun edit

fīlī n

  1. genitive singular of fīlum

Manchu edit

Romanization edit

fili

  1. Romanization of ᡶᡳᠯᡳ

Nias edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *piliq, from Proto-Austronesian *piliq.

Verb edit

fili (imperfective mamili)

  1. (transitive) to choose

References edit

  • Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 69.

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Etymology 1 edit

From the suffix -fili.

Noun edit

fili m (definite singular filien, indefinite plural filiar, definite plural filiane)

  1. (countable) a philia

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

fili f

  1. (non-standard since 2012) definite singular of fil

Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

From Primitive Irish ᚃᚓᚂᚔᚈᚐᚄ (velitas), from Proto-Celtic *welīts.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

fili m (genitive filed, nominative plural filid)

  1. poet, seer
    • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 162a3
      In tan labratar ind ḟilid a persin inna ṅdea, do·gniat primam ⁊ secundam in illis.
      When the poets speak in the person of the gods, they make a first and second [person] in them.

Declension edit

Masculine t-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative fili filidL, fili filid
Vocative fili filidL, fili fileda
Accusative filidN filidL, fili fileda
Genitive filed filed filedN
Dative filidL filedaib filedaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Irish: file
  • Manx: feelee
  • Scottish Gaelic: filidh

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
fili ḟili fili
pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading edit

Samoan edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Polynesian *fili (compare with Tongan fili and Maori whiri), from Proto-Oceanic (compare with Fijian vili (to pick, to gather)), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *piliq (compare with Malay pilih, Tagalog pili and pumili), from Proto-Austronesian *piliq.[1]

Verb edit

fili

  1. to choose, to pick
  2. to elect

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “fili.1”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online[1]

Tongan edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Polynesian *fili, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *piliq, from Proto-Austronesian *piliq.

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

fili

  1. to choose, to pick
  2. to elect