kui
'Are'areEdit
NounEdit
kui
ReferencesEdit
- Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)
EstonianEdit
ConjunctionEdit
kui
FinnishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From kuinka, ultimately from Proto-Finnic *ku.
AdverbEdit
kui
- (colloquial) how
- (colloquial) why
- Joo muistan... kui?
- Yeah I remember... why?
- Joo muistan... kui?
SynonymsEdit
AnagramsEdit
IngrianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From kuka (“which”). Akin to Finnish kuin and Estonian kui.
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
kui
ConjunctionEdit
kui
Alternative formsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)[1], page 115
- Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachinkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку[2], →ISBN, page 57
JapaneseEdit
RomanizationEdit
kui
JavaneseEdit
DeterminerEdit
kui
- Nonstandard spelling of kuwi.
KarelianEdit
AdverbEdit
kui
MandarinEdit
RomanizationEdit
kui
- Nonstandard spelling of kuī.
- Nonstandard spelling of kuí.
- Nonstandard spelling of kuǐ.
- Nonstandard spelling of kuì.
Usage notesEdit
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
NounEdit
kui f
TeressaEdit
NounEdit
kui
ReferencesEdit
- Abbi, Anvita; R, Vyaskh (2020) , “Aspects of word formation processes in Luro: The endangered language of the Nicobar Islands”, in Asian Language and Linguistics[3]