-आई

Hindi

Etymology

Inherited from Old Hindi -आई (-āī), extracted from a few Prakrit nominal suffixes such as -आइअ n (-āia), -अइअ n (-aïa), -अविअ n (-avia), -आइआ f (-āiā), -अइआ f (-aïā). Compare Hindi जंभाई f (jambhāī, “a yawn”) / जंभना (jambhnā, “to yawn”) with Prakrit जंभाइअ n (jaṃbhāia, “a yawn, yawning”) / जंभ- (jaṃbha-, “to yawn”). The Prakrit suffixes are from Sanskrit -ता (-tā), -अयित (-ayita), -आपित (-āpita), -आयित (-āyita), etc extended with Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀇𑀓𑀸- (-ikā-).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /ɑː.iː/, [äː.iː]

Suffix

-आई • (-āī)

1. Forms feminine abstract nouns.

Declension

Declension of -आई (fem ind ī-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	-आई -āī	-आइयाँ -āiyā̃
oblique	-आई -āī	-आइयों -āiyõ
vocative	-आई -āī	-आइयो -āiyo

Derived terms

Hindi nouns suffixed with -आई

कटाई

कमाई

खुदाई

चढ़ाई

चतुराई

चुदाई

चौड़ाई

जम्हाई

जुताई

ठकुराई

दिखाई

दौड़ाई

पंडिताई

पढ़ाई

पिसाई

बुनाई

बुराई

सकुचाई

सुनाई

References

• Bahri, Hardev (1989), “-आई”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “-आई”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• Jaroslav Strnad (2013), Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī : Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr Vānī Poems From Rājasthān (Brill's Indological Library; 45), Leiden, →OCLC, page 232