vili

See also: Vili, Víli, vīli, and vílí

Äiwoo

Numeral

vili

1. five

References

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɪlɪ]

Participle

vili

1. animate masculine plural past active participle of vít

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vilja, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European [Term?]. See Finnish vilja (“grain, cereal”).

Noun

vili (genitive vilja, partitive vilja)

1. fruit

Declension

Declension of vili (ÕS type 24u/padi, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		vili	viljad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	vilja
genitive			viljade
partitive		vilja	vilju viljasid
illative		vilja viljasse	viljadesse viljusse
inessive		viljas	viljades viljus
elative		viljast	viljadest viljust
allative		viljale	viljadele viljule
adessive		viljal	viljadel viljul
ablative		viljalt	viljadelt viljult
translative		viljaks	viljadeks viljuks
terminative		viljani	viljadeni
essive		viljana	viljadena
abessive		viljata	viljadeta
comitative		viljaga	viljadega

Derived terms

• köögivili (“vegetable”)
• puuvili

Fijian

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic (compare with Samoan fili and filifili plus Maori whiri (“to choose”)), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *piliq (compare with Malay pilih, Tagalog pili and pumili, Malagasy fidy), from Proto-Austronesian *piliq.

Verb

vili (vilika)

1. to pick, to gather

Further reading

• Gatty, Ronald (2009) “vili, vilika”, in Fijian-English Dictionary, Suva, Fiji: Ronald Gatty, →ISBN, page 300

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvili]
• Hyphenation: vi‧li
• Rhymes: -li

Etymology 1

Clipping and -i diminutive of villamos (“tram”).

Alternative forms

• villi

Noun

vili (plural vilik)

1. (informal) tram

   Synonym: villamos

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	vili	vilik
accusative	vilit	viliket
dative	vilinek	viliknek
instrumental	vilivel	vilikkel
causal-final	viliért	vilikért
translative	vilivé	vilikké
terminative	viliig	vilikig
essive-formal	viliként	vilikként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	viliben	vilikben
superessive	vilin	viliken
adessive	vilinél	viliknél
illative	vilibe	vilikbe
sublative	vilire	vilikre
allative	vilihez	vilikhez
elative	viliből	vilikből
delative	viliről	vilikről
ablative	vilitől	viliktől
non-attributive possessive - singular	vilié	viliké
non-attributive possessive - plural	viliéi	vilikéi

Possessive forms of vili
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	vilim	vilijeim (or viliim)
2nd person sing.	vilid	vilijeid (or viliid)
3rd person sing.	vilije	vilijei (or vilii)
1st person plural	vilink	vilijeink (or viliink)
2nd person plural	vilitek	vilijeitek (or viliitek)
3rd person plural	vilijük	vilijeik (or viliik)

Etymology 2

Clipping and -i diminutive of világos (“clear”).

Adjective

vili (not generally comparable, comparative vilibb, superlative legvilibb)

1. (informal) clear (free of ambiguity or doubt)

   Synonyms: világos, érthető

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	vili	vilik
accusative	vilit	viliket
dative	vilinek	viliknek
instrumental	vilivel	vilikkel
causal-final	viliért	vilikért
translative	vilivé	vilikké
terminative	viliig	vilikig
essive-formal	viliként	vilikként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	viliben	vilikben
superessive	vilin	viliken
adessive	vilinél	viliknél
illative	vilibe	vilikbe
sublative	vilire	vilikre
allative	vilihez	vilikhez
elative	viliből	vilikből
delative	viliről	vilikről
ablative	vilitől	viliktől
non-attributive possessive - singular	vilié	viliké
non-attributive possessive - plural	viliéi	vilikéi

Further reading

• (both senses): vili in Pusztai, Ferenc (ed.). Magyar értelmező kéziszótár (“A Concise Explanatory Dictionary of Hungarian”). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2003. 2nd, expanded and revised edition →ISBN. Online searchable version (under development)

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.li/
• Rhymes: -ili
• Hyphenation: vì‧li

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

vili

1. plural of vile

Noun

vili m or f

1. plural of vile

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

vili

1. masculine plural of vilio

Jamtish

Etymology

From Old Norse vilja (“to want”), from Proto-Germanic *wiljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʋɪ̀ːlɪ]

  Rhymes: -ɪ̀ːlɪ

Verb

vili

1. (with accusative) to want, wish, would like

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯iː.liː/, [ˈu̯iːlʲiː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.li/, [ˈviːli]

Adjective

vīlī

1. dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of vīlis

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wiljô, whence also Old English willa, Old High German willa.

Noun

vili m (genitive vilja, plural viljar)

1. will
2. (poetic) joy, delight
3. carnal lust

Declension

  Declension of vili (weak an-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	vili	vilinn	viljar	viljarnir
accusative	vilja	viljann	vilja	viljana
dative	vilja	viljanum	viljum	viljunum
genitive	vilja	viljans	vilja	viljanna

Derived terms

• viljalauss (“joyless”)

Related terms

• vilja (“to want”)

Descendants

• Icelandic: vilji m
• Faroese: vilji m
• Norwegian Bokmål: vilje m
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vilje m, vile m (nonstandard, dialectal)
• Jamtish: vili m
• Elfdalian: wile m
• Old Swedish: vili m, vilie m, vilia f
  • Swedish: vilja f, vilje
    • → Elfdalian: wila f
• Old Danish: vilje, vilge, vilgie
  • Danish: vilje
• Gutnish: vilä m

References

• “vili”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Verb

vili

1. third-person singular/plural present active subjunctive of vilja

Serbo-Croatian

Participle

vili (Cyrillic spelling вили)

1. masculine plural active past participle of viti

Tokelauan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvi.li]
• Hyphenation: vi‧li

Etymology 1

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *wiliwili. Cognates include Emae viriviri and Wallisian vili.

Verb

vili (plural fetuli or fētutuli or taufetuli)

1. (intransitive) to run; to hurry
2. (intransitive) to escape; to run away

Usage notes

• While the sense "to run, hurry" uses all three plurals, the sense "to escape, run away" only uses the plurals fetuli and fētutuli.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Polynesian *wili. Cognates include Hawaiian wili and Samoan vili.

Noun

vili

1. eddy, swirl

Verb

vili (plural tavili)

1. (intransitive) to spin; to whirl
2. (transitive) to drill; to bore
3. (transitive) to telephone
4. (transitive) to be in severe pain from

Etymology 3

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *wili. Cognates include Tuvaluan vili and Samoan vili.

Noun

vili

1. lot (used to determine a question by chance)

Etymology 4

From Proto-Polynesian *wili. Cognates include Tongan vili and Samoan vili.

Verb

vili

1. (transitive) to aim for

References

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[1], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 433