hai

Clipping of English Haida.

hai

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Haida terms

A purposeful misspelling.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪ̯/

• Audio (US):

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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’.

• AIH, HIA, ahi

• (Myanmar) /hɑi˧/
• (Lianghe) [xɑi⁵⁵]
• (Longchuan) [xai⁵⁵]
• (Xiandao) [xai⁵⁵]

hai

1. this

• Inglis, Douglas, Sampu, Nasaw, Jaseng, Wilai, Jana, Thocha (2005) A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎^[2], Payap University, page 41

hai

1. yes

hai

1. fire

• Robert Lee Litteral, Features of Angor Discourse (1980)

hai

1. four

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

hai

1. third-person singular present indicative of haber

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

hai (genitive hai, partitive haid)

1. shark

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

• haikala

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

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

hai

1. shark

   Synonym: haikala

• “1. hai”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

Borrowed from English high, from high card.

hai

1. (poker) high card

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

• “2. hai”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[4] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

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

• hia, iha

hai

1. first-person singular present active indicative of havoir

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈaj]

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.

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “aver”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “hay”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “haber”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

hai

1. let us, 1st person plural imperative

   Hai an·ching nokona re·anga

   Let's go home

• IPA^(key): /haɪ̯/

hai m

1. (also Märkisch, Sauerländisch, Eastern Pomeranian in Brazil) he

   [Brazilian] Hai sit dicht am füür.

   He is sitting next to the fire.

• hei

(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”)

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

hai

1. to write

hai

1. alternative spelling of hąįʼ

• IPA^(key): /ˈhai̯/, [ˈhɐj], [ˈhɛj] (rapid speech)

From Proto-Polynesian *fa(q)i (“rite”). Cognate with Maori whai (“perform (a rite)”), Samoan fai (“do, speak”).

hai

1. to offer, to sacrifice

• haina (“sacrifice”)
• haipule (“devout”)

hai

1. offering, sacrifice

Borrowed from English hire.

hai

1. (transitive) to hire

• hai in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.

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

• IPA^(key): /haɪ/

hai

1. hi

• “hai” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• ài (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /ˈaj/
• Homophone: ai
• Rhymes: -aj
• Hyphenation: hài

hai

1. second-person singular present indicative of avere

• ahi

hai

1. Rōmaji transcription of はい

• hāi

From Dutch hij. Cognates include Afrikaans hy.

• IPA^(key): /hai/, /hɛi/

hai

1. alternative form of hāi

• IPA^(key): /hai̯/
• Rhymes: -ai̯

Clipping of wahai.

hai (Jawi spelling هاي)

1. Used to call out to people.

   Hai orang-orang yang beriman!

   Oh, people who believe!

Borrowed from English hi.

hai (Jawi spelling هاي)

1. (informal) Used as a greeting; hi.

   Synonyms: helo, assalamualaikum

   Hai, tengah buat apa ni?

   Hi, whatcha doing?

• “hai” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

hai

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

• 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.

hai

1. (playing cards) ace

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

hai (haies)

1. alternative form of haye (“hunting net”)

hai

1. alternative form of hey (“hey”)

hai

1. alternative form of hey (“hay”)

hai (haies)

1. alternative form of heye (“hedge”)

hai

1. alternative form of haven (“to have”)

• xai (in older Americanist literature)

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

• IPA^(key): /hɑ̀ɪ̀/

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hai

1. winter

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

• haidą́ą́ʼ (“last winter”)
• haigo (“in winter”)
• haiʼííłnííʼ (“midwinter”)
• dííghaaí (“this winter”)

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

hai

1. big

From Dutch haai.

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

1. a shark

• “hai” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

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

1. a shark

   Synonym: hå

• “hai” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Clipping of haide.

• IPA^(key): [haj]

• Audio:

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hai

1. (with subjunctives) let's

   hai să mergem

   let's go

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

• haide, haidem, haideți, haios

• hei (Puter, Vallader)

hai

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

• bainschi hai

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

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.

Borrowed from Arabic حَيّ (ḥayy).

• Audio (Kenya):

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hai (invariable)

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

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [haːj˧˧]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [haːj˦˥]

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

hai (胎)

1. moon

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

hai

1. to lay eggs
2. to macerate

• Dương Nhật Thanh, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[5] (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]
• 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]‎^[6][7] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên

Cognate with West Makian fai (“millipede”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈha.i/

hai

1. centipede

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

From English hi.

hai

1. hello

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

• IPA^(key): /ɣai/

hai

1. tree

• 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 cardinal numbers

<  1	2	3  >
Cardinal : hai     Ordinal : thứ nhì, thứ hai

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [haːj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [haːj˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [haːj˧˧]

• Audio (Hà Nội):

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From Proto-Vietic *haːr, from Proto-Austroasiatic *ɓaːr (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)”).

hai (𠄩, 咍, 台)

1. two

hai • (𠄩, 咍, 台)

1. (Southern Vietnam, of a sibling) eldest; firstborn

   Synonym: cả

   anh/chị hai ― eldest brother/sister

   bác hai ― eldest brother/sister of one's parent

• nhị; nhì

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.

hai!

1. cheese! (said while being photographed)

From Mandarin 是 (shì).

• IPA^(key): [he]

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

• yek (“to be at; to exist”)

• Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun‎^[8], University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN

From Chinese 開 (MC khoj).

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /haːi˨˦/
• Tone numbers: hai¹
• Hyphenation: hai

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

1. to open

• IPA^(key): /hai̯˧/

hai

1. mango

• IPA^(key): /hai̯˧˥/

hái

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

• IPA^(key): /hai̯˧˩/

hài

1. cup

• IPA^(key): /hai̯˧˩/

hài

1. (transitive) to forget

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