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kui

See also: Appendix:Variations of "kui"

Translingual

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kui

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Kuikúro.

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'Are'are

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Noun

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kui

  1. dog

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Estonian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *ku.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkui̯/, [ˈkui̯]
  • Rhymes: -ui
  • Hyphenation: kui

Conjunction

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kui

  1. as, like
    Synonym: nagu
    Mees oli tugev kui karu.
    The man was as strong as a bear.
    Sinu isa kui tohter peaks seda teadma.
    Your father, as a doctor, should know this.
  2. than
    Jaak on pikem kui Peeter.
    Jaak is taller than Peeter.
    Ülesanne osutus raskemaks, kui oletasime.
    The task turned out harder than we had assumed.
  3. Forms certain emphatic phrases.
    iga viimane kui ― every last
    samahästi kui ― as good as
    mitte kui miski ― nothing
  4. when, once
    Kui lapsed olid söönud, läksid nad õue.
    Once the children had eaten, they went outside.
  5. if
    Kui säärane olukord edasi kestab, on meie lugu väga halb.
    If such a situation continues, we'll have a very bad time.

Derived terms

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Adverb

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kui (not comparable)

  1. how
    Kui vana sa oled?
    How old are you?
    Kui palju see maksab?
    How much does this cost?

References

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  • kui in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
  • “kui”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

Finnish

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Etymology

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Clipping of kuin(ka).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkui̯/, [ˈkui̯]
  • Rhymes: -ui
  • Syllabification(key): kui
  • Hyphenation(key): kui

Adverb

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kui (colloquial)

  1. how
  2. why (are you asking)
    Joo muistan... kui?
    Yeah I remember... why?

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Anagrams

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Hawaiian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *tui (“to thread on string”) (compare with Māori tui)[1][2] from Proto-Oceanic *tuRi₁ from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuhuR (“to string together”) (compare with Tagalog tuhog).[2][3]

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Verb

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kui

  1. to thread, to string together
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References

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  1. ^ Pukui, Mary Kawena; Elbert, Samuel H. (1986), “kui”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 174
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “tui”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551–9
  3. ^ M. Ross, A. Pawley, M. Osmond, editors (1998), The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic‎[1], volume 1: Material Culture, Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 263–4

Ingrian

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Pronunciation

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kui

  1. alternative form of kuin
    • 1936, L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli, translated by Mihailov and P. I. Maksimov, Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart (ensimäine osa) [Geography: textbook for Ingrian elementary school third grade (first part)], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 6:
      Miä muissin, kui möö hulkuimma metsää mööt, yhenlain ku sokkiat, ja nyt kovin meinaisin oppihussa löytämää teetä, samalviittää kui pioneerat.
      I remembered, how we wandered along the forest, like we were blind, and now I really decided to learn to find the way, just like the pioneers.

References

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  • Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014), Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎[2], →ISBN, page 57

Japanese

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Romanization

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kui

  1. Rōmaji transcription of くい

Javanese

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Determiner

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kui

  1. nonstandard spelling of kuwi

Karelian

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Adverb

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kui

  1. how

Koho

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Verb

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kui

  1. to sleep
  2. to copulate

References

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  • Paul J. Sidwell, Proto South Bahnaric: A Reconstruction of a Mon-Khmer Language of Indo-China (2000)

Livonian

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Etymology

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From the instructive plural *kuin of Proto-Finnic *ku. Compare Estonian kui.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkui/, [ˈku̯iˑ]

Adverb

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kui

  1. how
  2. (chiefly in the negative) (not) very
  3. like (in a way similar to)
  4. somehow

Conjunction

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kui

  1. so (much) that, to the extent that

References

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  • Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “kui”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎[3] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra

Livvi

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Proto-Finnic *ku. Cognates include Finnish kui and Ingrian kui.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkui̯/
  • Hyphenation: kui

Adverb

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kui

  1. how? (interrogative)
    Kui se sanohes livvikse? ― How is this called in Livvi?
  2. how (relative)
    Se on, kui luadie. ― This is how to do it.
  3. how! (exclamatory)
    Kui olet kaunis! ― How pretty are you!

Conjunction

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kui

  1. (just) like
    Hyö ollah kui lapset. ― They are like children.

References

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  • Tatjana Boiko (2019), Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 124

Mandarin

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Romanization

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kui

  1. nonstandard spelling of kuī
  2. nonstandard spelling of kuí
  3. nonstandard spelling of kuǐ
  4. nonstandard spelling of kuì

Usage notes

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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.

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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kui f

  1. (non-standard since 2012) definite singular of ku

Savosavo

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Numeral

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kui

  1. eight

References

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  • Claudia Wegener (2012), A Grammar of Savosavo, Berlin: De Gruyter, →OCLC, page 73

Teressa

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Noun

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kui

  1. head

References

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  • Abbi, Anvita; R, Vyaskh (2020), “Aspects of word formation processes in Luro: The endangered language of the Nicobar Islands”, in Asian Language and Linguistics‎[4]

Votic

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Etymology

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From the instructive plural *kuin of Proto-Finnic *ku. Cognate with Finnish kuin, Ingrian kui and Estonian kui.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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kui

  1. (interrogative) how?
  2. (relative) how
  3. however, no matter how

Conjunction

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kui

  1. (relative) when
  2. if
  3. than (in comparisons)

References

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  • Hallap, V.; Adler, E.; Grünberg, S.; Leppik, M. (2012), “kui”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language]‎[5], 2nd edition, Tallinn
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