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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈhʉː.iː/, [ˈhʉ(w)i(ː)]
Noun[edit]
hui (plural hui or huis)
- (New Zealand) A Māori social gathering or assembly.
- 1962, Education, volume 11, page 56:
- […] accounts of the proceedings of important huis at which Maori leaders took the initiative in discussing their educational and vocational needs […]
See also[edit]
- An-hui (etymologically unrelated)
Anagrams[edit]
Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old Catalan hui, from Latin hodiē, from hōc + diē (literally “on this day”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
hui
References[edit]
- “avui” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Dutch hoey, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaij (“whey”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
hui f (uncountable)
- (dated, dialectal) whey [First attested in the late 15th century.]
- Synonyms: wei, melkwei
- Hui is een bijproduct van het maken van kaas. ― Whey is a side product of cheese production.
- 1612, Gerbrand Adriaensz. Bredero, “Symen sonder Soeticheydt”, in Kluchten, page 108:
- Wy aten een potje karmelck …, en droncken een toochje huy…
- We ate a jar of buttermilk porridge…, and drank a swig of whey…
- 1811, Johannes le Francq van Berkhey, Natuurlyke historie van Holland, vol. 9, publ. P. H. Trap, page 453.
- De melk wordt … verwerkt tot boter, kaas, karnemelk en hui …,
- The milk is … processed into butter, cheese, buttermilk and whey …,
Derived terms[edit]
Finnish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Related to Karelian hui. Possibly onomatopoeic, but may also be borrowed. Compare Swedish huj, German hui.
Interjection[edit]
hui
- oh! (an exclamation when scared or startled)
Further reading[edit]
- “hui”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01
Etymology 2[edit]
From Proto-Finnic *hoi, *hui, from Proto-Finno-Permic *šoje, *šuje.
Noun[edit]
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old French hui, from Latin hodiē, from hōc (“this”) + diē.
Cognate with Occitan uòi, uèi, Catalan hui and avui, Galician hoxe, Spanish hoy, Portuguese hoje and Italian oggi.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
hui
- (archaic exept in the compound aujourd'hui) today
Derived terms[edit]
German[edit]
Interjection[edit]
hui
Further reading[edit]
Hawaiian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun[edit]
hui
- club, organization
- company, firm
- combination
- cluster
- (music) chorus (refrain)
- (mathematics) plus sign
Verb[edit]
hui
- (intransitive) to meet
- (intransitive) to unite, join
- (intransitive) to combine
See also[edit]
Ido[edit]
Noun[edit]
hui
Latin[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Interjection[edit]
hui
References[edit]
- “hui”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “hui”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- hui in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- hui in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Mandarin[edit]
Romanization[edit]
hui
- Nonstandard spelling of huī.
- Nonstandard spelling of huí.
- Nonstandard spelling of huǐ.
- Nonstandard spelling of huì.
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]
Verb[edit]
hui
- to gather, congregate, assemble, meet
Noun[edit]
hui
Middle English[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
hui
- Alternative form of he (“they”)
Northern Sami[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
hui
Further reading[edit]
- Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[3], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
hui m
Descendants[edit]
- Middle French: hui
- ⇒ French: d’hui (in fixed expressions), aujourd’hui (see there for further descendants)
- Walloon: ouy
Spanish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- huí (deprecated)
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
hui
- inflection of huir:
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