jai
Basque edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
jai inan
Declension edit
Declension of jai (inanimate, ending in vowel)
indefinite | singular | plural | |
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absolutive | jai | jaia | jaiak |
ergative | jaik | jaiak | jaiek |
dative | jairi | jaiari | jaiei |
genitive | jairen | jaiaren | jaien |
comitative | jairekin | jaiarekin | jaiekin |
causative | jairengatik | jaiarengatik | jaiengatik |
benefactive | jairentzat | jaiarentzat | jaientzat |
instrumental | jaiz | jaiaz | jaiez |
inessive | jaitan | jaian | jaietan |
locative | jaitako | jaiko | jaietako |
allative | jaitara | jaira | jaietara |
terminative | jaitaraino | jairaino | jaietaraino |
directive | jaitarantz | jairantz | jaietarantz |
destinative | jaitarako | jairako | jaietarako |
ablative | jaitatik | jaitik | jaietatik |
partitive | jairik | — | — |
prolative | jaitzat | — | — |
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
Dalmatian edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronoun edit
jai m/f pl
- (third-person plural masculine and feminine pronoun, oblique case) them
Related terms edit
Gothic edit
Romanization edit
jai
- Romanization of 𐌾𐌰𐌹
Gun edit
Alternative forms edit
- jàyí (Benin)
Etymology edit
From jẹ̀ (“to fall”) + aí (“ground”), literally “to fall on the ground”. Cognates include Fon jàyǐ, Saxwe Gbe jɛ̀ nyì, Adja jè anyi, Ewe dze anyí
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
jàí (Nigeria)
- to fall
Derived terms edit
- whèjàí (“evening”)
Iban edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Malayic *jahət.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
jai
Iu Mien edit
Noun edit
jai
- Alternative form of jae (“chicken”)
Lithuanian edit
Pronoun edit
jai f
Mbyá Guaraní edit
Noun edit
jai
Middle English edit
Noun edit
jai
- Alternative form of jay
Murui Huitoto edit
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
jai
References edit
- Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.[1], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis)
Old French edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin gaius (“jay”), or a variant of gai (“joyous, cheerful”).
Noun edit
jai oblique singular, m (oblique plural jais, nominative singular jais, nominative plural jai)
- jay (bird)
Descendants edit
Ye'kwana edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
jai (possessed jaichü)
References edit
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jai”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[2], Lyon
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