oi
English edit
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Etymology 1 edit
Variant of the interjection hoy with h-dropping in working class and Cockney speech; first recorded in the 1930s. Compare also unrelated Portuguese oi and Japanese おい (oi).
Interjection edit
oi (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, usually impolite)
- Said to get someone's attention; hey.
- Synonyms: hey, yo; see also Thesaurus:hey
- Oi, you with the red hat – what do you think you're doing?
- Oi! Stop that!
- An expression of surprise.
- Synonyms: blimey, whoa; see also Thesaurus:wow
- Oi! This is new!
- An informal greeting, similar to hi.
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Noun edit
oi (uncountable)
- (UK, sometimes capitalized) A working-class punk rock subgenre of the 1970s, sometimes associated with racism.
- 1997, David Schwarz, Listening subjects: music, psychoanalysis, culture:
- A way for Oi musicians to avoid responsibility for acts of violence that were preceded by listening to Oi is the claim that what people do with their music is out of the control of the musicians themselves.
- 2012, Tiffini Travis, Perry Hardy, Skinheads: A Guide to an American Subculture:
- Oi! is characterized by cleaner guitars and slower tempos than most punk music, and many Oi! songs feature sing-along, "soccer chant" choruses.
Etymology 2 edit
Variant of oy, from Yiddish.
Interjection edit
oi
- Alternative spelling of oy
Etymology 3 edit
Pronoun edit
oi
- (representing rural dialect pronunciation) I.
- Sometimes oi sits and thinks, and sometimes oi just sits.
- 1877, W. S. Gilbert, The Sorcerer, Act II:
- Why, where be oi, and what be oi a doin’, / A sleepin’ out, just when the dews du rise?
Etymology 4 edit
Borrowed from oyez, 2nd person plural imperative of verb oir meaning to listen, as used as an interjection in duplicated form "Oyez, oyez" by public speakers of medieval times to draw attention before a public address; see oi oi.
Interjection edit
oi
- Alternative spelling of oy
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oi
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Catalan edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Latin odium. Doublet of odi.
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Noun edit
oi m (plural ois)
Etymology 2 edit
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Interjection edit
oi
- used at the end of a sentence, or with que at the beginning to make a tag question
- 1994, Ferran Canyameres, Montserrat Canyameres, Obra completa IV, page 194:
- Oi que ho farà? Digui que sí.
- Won't you do it? Say you will.
- indicates agreement with a statement: yeah; that's right
Etymology 3 edit
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oi
Further reading edit
- “oi” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Similar interjections can be found in other Finnic languages (compare Estonian oi, Ingrian oi, Karelian oi, Ludian oi, Veps oi, Votic oi) and neighboring Indo-European languages (Swedish oj, Latvian oi, Russian ой).
Pronunciation edit
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oi
Further reading edit
- “oi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
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Galician edit
Pronunciation edit
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oi
References edit
- “oi” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “oi” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “oi” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Hiri Motu edit
Pronoun edit
oi
- 2nd-person singular pronoun: you
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oi
Malay edit
Pronunciation edit
Interjection edit
oi (Jawi spelling وي)
- Alternative form of hoi (“hey”)
- Oi, apa kau buat tu?!
- Hey, what are you doing there?!
Further reading edit
- “oi” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Mòcheno edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German ei, from Old High German ei, from Proto-West Germanic *aij, from Proto-Germanic *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”). Cognate with German Ei, obsolete English ey.
Noun edit
oi n
References edit
- Anthony R. Rowley, Liacht as de sproch: Grammatica della lingua mòchena Deutsch-Fersentalerisch, TEMI, 2003.
Old French edit
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oi
- past participle of oir
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -oj
- Hyphenation: oi
Interjection edit
oi
Interjection edit
oi?
Romanian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun form.
Noun edit
oi f
- inflection of oaie:
Etymology 2 edit
Verb form.
Verb edit
(eu) oi (modal auxiliary, first-person singular form of vrea, used with infinitives to form presumptive tenses)
- (I) might
Verb edit
(tu) oi (modal auxiliary, second-person singular form of vrea, used with infinitives to form presumptive tenses)
- (you) might
Sardinian edit
Alternative forms edit
- oje, oze (Nuorese)
- oe (Logudorese)
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oi
Sicilian edit
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oi
Vietnamese edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Adjective edit
- (weather) hot and oppressive, sultry
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Etymology 2 edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
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West Makian edit
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oi
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oi
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Conjugation edit
Conjugation of oi (stative verb) | ||||
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singular | plural | |||
inclusive | exclusive | |||
1st person | tioi | mioi | aoi | |
2nd person | nioi | fioi | ||
3rd person | inanimate | ioi | dioi | |
animate | maoi | |||
imperative | —, oi | —, oi |
References edit
- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[2], Pacific linguistics (etymologies 2 and 3 as oi)
Yoruba edit
Alternative forms edit
- ori (Èkìtì)
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oi
- (Ondo) A type of Yoruba food made from cornflour typically eaten with mọ́ínmọ́ín or àkàrà.
- Synonym: ẹ̀kọ
- Oi é è yọ̀n yéye. ― Corn pap isn't very tasty. (Oǹdó)
- Inọ́n ùkòkò dínún òun oi fifun tì jáde í. ― It is from inside a black pot that white corn pap comes from. (Oǹdó)
Zou edit
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oi
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References edit
- Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 41