Translingual

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hai

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Haida.

English

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Etymology

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A purposeful misspelling.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈhaɪ̯/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Interjection

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hai

  1. (Internet slang) Hi.
    • 2023 June 5, Rebecca Gillam, “18 celebs who swear by weight training, from Adele to Millie Mackintosh & Frankie Bridge”, in Women's Health[1]:
      As her famously no-BS longtime PT Don Saladino, who has a next-level celeb roster (oh HAIII, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt!), told WH: ‘It’s about improving your body’s resilience and energy […] making sure we’re optimising everything we do’.

Anagrams

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Adzera

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Interjection

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hai

  1. yes

Angor

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Noun

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hai

  1. fire

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'Are'are

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Numeral

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hai

  1. four

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Asturian

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Verb

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hai

  1. third-person singular present indicative of haber

Estonian

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Etymology

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< Swedish haj (shark), < Dutch haai (shark)

Noun

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hai (genitive hai, partitive haid)

  1. shark

Declension

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Declension of hai (ÕS type 26/koi, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative hai haid
accusative nom.
gen. hai
genitive haide
partitive haid haisid
illative haisse haidesse
inessive hais haides
elative haist haidest
allative haile haidele
adessive hail haidel
ablative hailt haidelt
translative haiks haideks
terminative haini haideni
essive haina haidena
abessive haita haideta
comitative haiga haidega

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Finnish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈhɑi̯/, [ˈhɑ̝i̯]
  • Rhymes: -ɑi
  • Hyphenation(key): hai

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Swedish haj (shark), itself from Dutch haai (shark) from Old Norse hákarl (shark).

Noun

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hai

  1. shark
    Synonym: haikala
Declension
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Inflection of hai (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)
nominative hai hait
genitive hain haiden
haitten
partitive haita haita
illative haihin haihin
singular plural
nominative hai hait
accusative nom. hai hait
gen. hain
genitive hain haiden
haitten
partitive haita haita
inessive haissa haissa
elative haista haista
illative haihin haihin
adessive hailla hailla
ablative hailta hailta
allative haille haille
essive haina haina
translative haiksi haiksi
abessive haitta haitta
instructive hain
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of hai (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)
first-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative haini haini
accusative nom. haini haini
gen. haini
genitive haini haideni
haitteni
partitive haitani haitani
inessive haissani haissani
elative haistani haistani
illative haihini haihini
adessive haillani haillani
ablative hailtani hailtani
allative hailleni hailleni
essive hainani hainani
translative haikseni haikseni
abessive haittani haittani
instructive
comitative haineni
second-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative haisi haisi
accusative nom. haisi haisi
gen. haisi
genitive haisi haidesi
haittesi
partitive haitasi haitasi
inessive haissasi haissasi
elative haistasi haistasi
illative haihisi haihisi
adessive haillasi haillasi
ablative hailtasi hailtasi
allative haillesi haillesi
essive hainasi hainasi
translative haiksesi haiksesi
abessive haittasi haittasi
instructive
comitative hainesi
first-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative haimme haimme
accusative nom. haimme haimme
gen. haimme
genitive haimme haidemme
haittemme
partitive haitamme haitamme
inessive haissamme haissamme
elative haistamme haistamme
illative haihimme haihimme
adessive haillamme haillamme
ablative hailtamme hailtamme
allative haillemme haillemme
essive hainamme hainamme
translative haiksemme haiksemme
abessive haittamme haittamme
instructive
comitative hainemme
second-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative hainne hainne
accusative nom. hainne hainne
gen. hainne
genitive hainne haidenne
haittenne
partitive haitanne haitanne
inessive haissanne haissanne
elative haistanne haistanne
illative haihinne haihinne
adessive haillanne haillanne
ablative hailtanne hailtanne
allative haillenne haillenne
essive hainanne hainanne
translative haiksenne haiksenne
abessive haittanne haittanne
instructive
comitative hainenne
Derived terms
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compounds

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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English high, from high card.

Noun

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hai

  1. (poker) high card
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Often preceded with the rank of the high card, such as ässähai for "ace high (card)".

Declension
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Inflection of hai (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)
nominative hai hait
genitive hain haiden
haitten
partitive haita haita
illative haihin haihin
singular plural
nominative hai hait
accusative nom. hai hait
gen. hain
genitive hain haiden
haitten
partitive haita haita
inessive haissa haissa
elative haista haista
illative haihin haihin
adessive hailla hailla
ablative hailta hailta
allative haille haille
essive haina haina
translative haiksi haiksi
abessive haitta haitta
instructive hain
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of hai (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)
first-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative haini haini
accusative nom. haini haini
gen. haini
genitive haini haideni
haitteni
partitive haitani haitani
inessive haissani haissani
elative haistani haistani
illative haihini haihini
adessive haillani haillani
ablative hailtani hailtani
allative hailleni hailleni
essive hainani hainani
translative haikseni haikseni
abessive haittani haittani
instructive
comitative haineni
second-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative haisi haisi
accusative nom. haisi haisi
gen. haisi
genitive haisi haidesi
haittesi
partitive haitasi haitasi
inessive haissasi haissasi
elative haistasi haistasi
illative haihisi haihisi
adessive haillasi haillasi
ablative hailtasi hailtasi
allative haillesi haillesi
essive hainasi hainasi
translative haiksesi haiksesi
abessive haittasi haittasi
instructive
comitative hainesi
first-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative haimme haimme
accusative nom. haimme haimme
gen. haimme
genitive haimme haidemme
haittemme
partitive haitamme haitamme
inessive haissamme haissamme
elative haistamme haistamme
illative haihimme haihimme
adessive haillamme haillamme
ablative hailtamme hailtamme
allative haillemme haillemme
essive hainamme hainamme
translative haiksemme haiksemme
abessive haittamme haittamme
instructive
comitative hainemme
second-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative hainne hainne
accusative nom. hainne hainne
gen. hainne
genitive hainne haidenne
haittenne
partitive haitanne haitanne
inessive haissanne haissanne
elative haistanne haistanne
illative haihinne haihinne
adessive haillanne haillanne
ablative hailtanne hailtanne
allative haillenne haillenne
essive hainanne hainanne
translative haiksenne haiksenne
abessive haittanne haittanne
instructive
comitative hainenne

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See also

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Poker hands in Finnish · käsi, pokerikäsi (layout · text)
         
hai pari kaksi paria kolmoset, kolme samaa suora
         
väri täyskäsi neloset, neljä samaa värisuora kuningasvärisuora

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Verb

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hai

  1. first-person singular present active indicative of havoir

Galician

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese hay, from ha + y, "there is".

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hai

  1. (reintegrationist norm, less recommended) third-person singular present indicative of haver
  2. (impersonal) third-person singular present indicative of haber (there is, there are)
    Hai dous nomes diferentes.There are two different names.

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Garo

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Interjection

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hai

  1. let us, 1st person plural imperative
    Hai an·ching nokona re·anga
    Let's go home

German Low German

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hai m

  1. (also Märkisch, Sauerländisch, Eastern Pomeranian in Brazil) he
    [Brazilian] Hai sit dicht am füür.
    He is sitting next to the fire.

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(Sauerländisch)

  • ik (I)
  • diu (thou, you (sg.))
  • iämme (rarely iäme) (him (dat.))
  • iänne (him (dat., acc.))
  • sai (she; her (acc.))
  • iär (her (dat.))
  • et (it)
  • sai (they)

(Brazilian)

  • ik (I)
  • duu (thou, you (sg.))
  • wij (we)
  • jij (you (pl.))
  • sai (they)

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  • Gertjan Postma, A Contrastive Grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today, vol. 248), 2019, p. 103

Guaraní

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Verb

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hai

  1. to write

Conjugation

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Gwich'in

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hai

  1. Alternative spelling of hąįʼ

Indonesian

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Etymology

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

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Interjection

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hai

  1. hi

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Italian

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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hai

  1. second-person singular present indicative of avere

Anagrams

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Japanese

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Romanization

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hai

  1. Rōmaji transcription of はい

Jersey Dutch

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Dutch hij. Cognates include Afrikaans hy.

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Pronoun

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hai

  1. Alternative form of hāi.

Malay

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Clipping of wahai.

Interjection

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hai (Jawi spelling هاي)

  1. Used to call out to people.
    Hai orang-orang yang beriman!
    Oh, people who believe!

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English hi.

Interjection

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hai (Jawi spelling هاي)

  1. (informal) Used as a greeting; hi.
    Synonyms: helo, assalamualaikum
    Hai, tengah buat apa ni?
    Hi, whatcha doing?

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Mandarin

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Romanization

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hai

  1. Nonstandard spelling of hāi.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of hái.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of hǎi.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of hài.

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  • 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

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Noun

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hai

  1. (playing cards) ace

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  • hai” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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hai (plural haies)

  1. Alternative form of haye (hunting net)

Etymology 2

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Interjection

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hai

  1. Alternative form of hey (hey)

Etymology 3

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Noun

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hai (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of hey (hay)

Etymology 4

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Noun

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hai (plural haies)

  1. Alternative form of heye (hedge)

Etymology 5

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Verb

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hai

  1. Alternative form of haven (to have)
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Alternative forms

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  • xai (in older Americanist literature)

Etymology

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From Proto-Athabaskan *x̣αy. Related to the root -HAI (a winter or a year passes).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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hai

  1. winter
    Haigo deeskʼaaz łeh.It’s usually cold in the winter.

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See also

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Seasons in Navajo · (layout · text) · category
daan (spring) shį́ (summer) aakʼeed (autumn) hai (winter)

Ngaju

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Adjective

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hai

  1. big

Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Etymology

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From Dutch haai.

Noun

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hai m (definite singular haien, indefinite plural haier, definite plural haiene)

  1. a shark

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Etymology

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From Dutch haai, from Old Norse hár, whence also .

Noun

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hai m (definite singular haien, indefinite plural haiar, definite plural haiane)

  1. a shark
    Synonym:

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Clipping of haide.

Pronunciation

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Interjection

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hai

  1. (with subjunctives) let's
    hai mergem
    let's go

Usage notes

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Hai is a word expressing inclination toward an action. It is often used to introduce suggestions, such as that in the given example.

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Romansch

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Alternative forms

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Interjection

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hai

  1. (Vallader) yes (used to indicate agreement with the speaker in a conversation)

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  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) gea
  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader) bain
  • (Sursilvan) gie, (Sursilvan) bein
  • (Sutsilvan) bagn
  • (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) ea
  • (Surmiran) gea bagn
  • (Puter, Vallader) bainschi, schi

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈai/ [ˈai̯]
  • Rhymes: -ai
  • Syllabification: hai

Verb

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hai

  1. (archaic, impersonal third-person singular indicative present of haber) there is, there are
    Synonym: hay
    Hai dos tiendas que venden películas.
    There are two stores that sell films.

Swahili

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic حَيّ (ḥayy).

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Adjective

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hai (invariable)

  1. alive (not dead)
  2. organic (living)

Tày

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Tai *ʰŋaːjᴬ; cognate with Lao ຫງາຍ (ngāi), Shan ငၢႆ (ngǎai), Thai หงาย (ngǎai).

Noun

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hai ()

  1. moon

Etymology 2

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Verb

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hai

  1. to lay eggs
  2. to macerate

References

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  • Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎[4] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội
  • Hoàng Văn Ma, Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Chí (2006) Từ điển Tày-Nùng-Việt [Tay-Nung-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Từ điển Bách khoa Hà Nội
  • Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎[5][6] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên

Ternate

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Etymology

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Cognate with West Makian fai (millipede).

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Noun

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hai

  1. centipede

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  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Tok Pisin

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Etymology

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From English hi.

Interjection

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hai

  1. hello

Uneapa

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Etymology

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From Proto-Oceanic *kayu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kahiw, from Proto-Austronesian *kaSiw.

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Noun

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hai

  1. tree

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  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
  • Johnston, R.L. 1982. "Proto-Kimbe and the New Guinea Oceanic hypothesis". In Halim, A., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. editors. Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Vol. 1: Currents in Oceanic, 59-95.

Vietnamese

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Vietnamese cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : hai
    Ordinal : thứ nhì, thứ hai

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Vietic *haːr, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɓaar (or some variant presented by Proto-Palaungic *ləʔaːr, Khasi ar, Central Nicobarese [Nancowry] âṅ; Shorto reconstructed Pre-Mon-Khmer *biʔaar). Cognate with Muong hal, Khmer ពីរ (pii), Bahnar 'bar, Pacoh bar, Khasi ar, Mon ၜါ, Santali ᱵᱟᱨ (bar).

Insertion of initial *h in Vietic can also be seen in *huːɲ (to kiss) (> Vietnamese hôn), *heːt (finished) (> Vietnamese hết), *hanʔ (he, she, it) (> Vietnamese hắn), *hoːj (foul-smelling) (> Vietnamese hôi), *tŋ-ʔaːm (> Vietnamese hàm, Late Vietic), *hɔːŋʔ (river, brook), *haːŋʔ (to open (mouth)).

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hai (𠄩, , )

  1. two

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hai (𠄩, , )

  1. (Southern Vietnam, of a sibling) eldest; firstborn
    Synonym: cả
    anh/chị haieldest brother/sister
    bác haieldest brother/sister of one's parent
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English hi (hello).

Further reinforced/contaminated by the coincidental usage of "two" (see etymology above) fingers when making V sign, therefore Vietnamese speakers would likely make V signs when being told to say "hai"/hi when photographed.

Interjection

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hai!

  1. cheese! (said while being photographed)

Wutunhua

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Etymology

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From Mandarin (shì).

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Verb

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hai

  1. to be; the copula:
    1. Indicates that the subject and object are the same.
      je ngu-de huaiqa hai-yek.
      As for this, it is my book.
      (Quoted in Sandman, p. 133)
    2. Indicates that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or predicate adjective.
      shetek bin~bin-de hai-li.
      The rock is cold.
      (Quoted in Sandman, p. 133)
    Antonym: bai

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  • yek (to be at; to exist)

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  • Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun[7], University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN

Zhuang

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Etymology

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From Chinese (MC khoj).

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hai (Sawndip forms 𢵱 or or or 𰿿, 1957–1982 spelling hai)

  1. to open

Etymology 1

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Noun

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hai

  1. mango

Etymology 2

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hái

  1. (intransitive) to chew
  2. (transitive) to skim off

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Noun

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hài

  1. cup

Etymology 4

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Verb

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hài

  1. (transitive) to forget

References

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  • Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 62