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pai

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pai"

Aragonese edit

Etymology edit

From Latin pater, patrem.

Noun edit

pai m

  1. father

Bakumpai edit

Noun edit

pai

  1. foot, leg

Big Nambas edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

pai

  1. yam
  2. year

References edit

Finnish edit

Etymology edit

English pie

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɑi̯/, [ˈpɑ̝i̯]
  • Rhymes: -ɑi
  • Syllabification(key): pai

Noun edit

pai

  1. (Finglish) pie

Declension edit

Inflection of pai (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)
nominative pai pait
genitive pain paiden
paitten
partitive paita paita
illative paihin paihin
singular plural
nominative pai pait
accusative nom. pai pait
gen. pain
genitive pain paiden
paitten
partitive paita paita
inessive paissa paissa
elative paista paista
illative paihin paihin
adessive pailla pailla
ablative pailta pailta
allative paille paille
essive paina paina
translative paiksi paiksi
abessive paitta paitta
instructive — pain
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of pai (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)
first-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative paini paini
accusative nom. paini paini
gen. paini
genitive paini paideni
paitteni
partitive paitani paitani
inessive paissani paissani
elative paistani paistani
illative paihini paihini
adessive paillani paillani
ablative pailtani pailtani
allative pailleni pailleni
essive painani painani
translative paikseni paikseni
abessive paittani paittani
instructive — —
comitative — paineni
second-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative paisi paisi
accusative nom. paisi paisi
gen. paisi
genitive paisi paidesi
paittesi
partitive paitasi paitasi
inessive paissasi paissasi
elative paistasi paistasi
illative paihisi paihisi
adessive paillasi paillasi
ablative pailtasi pailtasi
allative paillesi paillesi
essive painasi painasi
translative paiksesi paiksesi
abessive paittasi paittasi
instructive — —
comitative — painesi
first-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative paimme paimme
accusative nom. paimme paimme
gen. paimme
genitive paimme paidemme
paittemme
partitive paitamme paitamme
inessive paissamme paissamme
elative paistamme paistamme
illative paihimme paihimme
adessive paillamme paillamme
ablative pailtamme pailtamme
allative paillemme paillemme
essive painamme painamme
translative paiksemme paiksemme
abessive paittamme paittamme
instructive — —
comitative — painemme
second-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative painne painne
accusative nom. painne painne
gen. painne
genitive painne paidenne
paittenne
partitive paitanne paitanne
inessive paissanne paissanne
elative paistanne paistanne
illative paihinne paihinne
adessive paillanne paillanne
ablative pailtanne pailtanne
allative paillenne paillenne
essive painanne painanne
translative paiksenne paiksenne
abessive paittanne paittanne
instructive — —
comitative — painenne
third-person possessor
singular plural
nominative painsa painsa
accusative nom. painsa painsa
gen. painsa
genitive painsa paidensa
paittensa
partitive paitaan
paitansa 		paitaan
paitansa
inessive paissaan
paissansa 		paissaan
paissansa
elative paistaan
paistansa 		paistaan
paistansa
illative paihinsa paihinsa
adessive paillaan
paillansa 		paillaan
paillansa
ablative pailtaan
pailtansa 		pailtaan
pailtansa
allative pailleen
paillensa 		pailleen
paillensa
essive painaan
painansa 		painaan
painansa
translative paikseen
paiksensa 		paikseen
paiksensa
abessive paittaan
paittansa 		paittaan
paittansa
instructive — —
comitative — paineen
painensa

Further reading edit

Galician edit

Etymology edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese pay, from padre, from Latin pater (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

pai m (plural pais)

  1. father
    Coida meu pai que me ten / debaixo do pé dereito: / Fanlle a cama no sobrado: / non sabe cando me deito. (folk song)
    My dad thinks that he keeps me under his right foot; but he sleeps up in the upper floor and doesn't know when I go to bed.
  2. (in the plural) parents

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

References edit

Guinea-Bissau Creole edit

Etymology edit

From Portuguese pai. Cognate with Kabuverdianu pai.

Noun edit

pai

  1. father

Indo-Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

From Portuguese pai (“father”), from Old Galician-Portuguese padre (“father”), from Latin patrem (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”).

Noun edit

pai (plural pai pai)

  1. father (male parent)
    • 1883, Hugo Schuchardt, Kreolische Studien, volume 3:
      Já fallou par su pai aquêl mais piquin, […]
      The youngest one told his father […]

Indonesian edit

Etymology edit

From Malay pai from English pie.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

pai (first-person possessive paiku, second-person possessive paimu, third-person possessive painya)

  1. pie (type of pastry)

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

Japanese edit

Romanization edit

pai

  1. Rōmaji transcription of パイ

Jarai edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Chamic *tarapay (cognate with Western Cham ꨓꨚꩈ, Malay tapai).[1]

Noun edit

pai (classifier drơi)

  1. rabbit

References edit

  1. ^ Turgood, Graham (1999) Ancient Cham to Modern Dialects: Two Thousand Years of Language Contact and Change, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, page 332

Kabuverdianu edit

Etymology edit

From Portuguese pai.

Noun edit

pai

  1. father

Kristang edit

Noun edit

pai

  1. father

Leonese edit

Etymology edit

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

Noun edit

pai m

  1. father

References edit

Malay edit

Etymology edit

From English pie.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

pai (Jawi spelling ڤاي, plural pai-pai, informal 1st possessive paiku, 2nd possessive paimu, 3rd possessive painya)

  1. pie (type of pastry)

Further reading edit

Mandarin edit

Romanization edit

pai

  1. Nonstandard spelling of pāi.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of pái.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of pǎi.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of pài.

Usage notes edit

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Maori edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bait (compare Malay baik, Tagalog bait).

Adverb edit

pai

  1. good
    He iwi hūmārire te Māori, he makoha, he aroha ki te pai.
    The Māori are amiable people, placid and love that which is good.
  2. excellent
  3. suitable
  4. nice
    He maha hoki ngā whare kua kitea e au he whare nunui, he pai a waho ki te titiro atu, ko roto ia he pai ke atu ngā wharepuni.
    And there are many houses that I have seen that are large with nice exteriors to look at, but inside the sleeping houses are even better.
  5. pleasant

Noun edit

pai

  1. goodness
  2. excellence
  3. suitability

Mirandese edit

Etymology edit

From Latin pater, patrem.

Noun edit

pai m (plural pais)

  1. father

Ngaju edit

Noun edit

pai

  1. foot, leg

Norwegian Bokmål edit

 
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Etymology edit

From English pie.

Noun edit

pai m (definite singular paien, indefinite plural paier, definite plural paiene)

  1. a pie

Derived terms edit

References edit

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Etymology edit

From English pie.

Noun edit

pai m (definite singular paien, indefinite plural paiar, definite plural paiane)

  1. a pie

Derived terms edit

References edit

Papora edit

Noun edit

pai

  1. (Hoanya) woman

References edit

  • Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

Portuguese edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese pay, hypocoristic form of padre, from Latin pater (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”). Doublet of padre.

Compare Galician pai, Mirandese and Leonese pai and Aragonese pai.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

pai m (plural pais)

  1. father (male who sires a child)
  2. one's father
    Pai, eu estou saindo com as meninas.
    Dad, I'm going out with the girls.
  3. (usually in the plural) parent (either a mother or a father)
  4. (figurative) father (the founder of a discipline or science)
    Os gregos foram os pais da civilização.
    The Greeks were the fathers of civilisation.

Synonyms edit

Coordinate terms edit

  • (male who sires a child): mãe

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Ambonese Malay: pai, paitua
  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: pai
  • Indo-Portuguese: pai
  • Kabuverdianu: pai
  • Kristang: pai
  • → Nheengatu: paya
  • Sãotomense: pe
    • Annobonese: pe

Further reading edit

  • “pai” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Back-formation from paie, from Latin palea, considered as a plural. Compare Aromanian palj, paljiu.

Noun edit

pai n (plural paie)

  1. straw (a dried stalk of a cereal plant)
  2. drinking straw

Declension edit

Declension of pai
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) pai paiul (niște) paie paiele
genitive/dative (unui) pai paiului (unor) paie paielor
vocative paiule paielor

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Samoan edit

Etymology edit

From English pie.

Noun edit

pai

  1. pie

Sassarese edit

Pronunciation edit

Preposition edit

pai

  1. Alternative form of pa'

References edit

  • Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

Sranan Tongo edit

Etymology edit

From English pay.

Verb edit

pai

  1. to pay

Noun edit

pai

  1. wage

Tok Pisin edit

Etymology edit

From English pie.

Noun edit

pai

  1. pie

Tsou edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Austronesian *pajay. Cognate with Kapampangan pale (“rice plant”); Ilocano pagay (“rice plant”); Malay padi (“rice plant”); Javanese pari (“rice plant”); Tagalog palay (“rice plant”).

Noun edit

pai

  1. rice plant

West Makian edit

Etymology edit

Cognate with Ternate fai (“to dig”).

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

pai

  1. (transitive) to dig

Conjugation edit

Conjugation of pai (action verb)
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person tapai mapai apai
2nd person napai fapai
3rd person inanimate ipai dapai
animate
imperative napai, pai fapai, pai

References edit

  • James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎[2], Pacific linguistics
  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎[3], Pacific linguistics (as pay)

Yoruba edit

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

paí

  1. (Ondo) Alternative form of parí (“to finish; to end”)
    Uun jíjẹ tì paí. ― The food has finished.

Derived terms edit

Zou edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

pái

  1. (intransitive) to go

References edit

  • Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 45
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