vili

vili

1. five

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɪlɪ]

vili

1. animate masculine plural past active participle of vít

From Proto-Finnic *vilja, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European [Term?]. See Finnish vilja (“grain, cereal”).

vili (genitive vilja, partitive vilja)

1. fruit

Declension of vili (ÕS type 24u/padi, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		vili	viljad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	vilja
genitive			viljade
partitive		vilja	vilju viljasid
illative		vilja viljasse	viljadesse viljusse
inessive		viljas	viljades viljus
elative		viljast	viljadest viljust
allative		viljale	viljadele viljule
adessive		viljal	viljadel viljul
ablative		viljalt	viljadelt viljult
translative		viljaks	viljadeks viljuks
terminative		viljani	viljadeni
essive		viljana	viljadena
abessive		viljata	viljadeta
comitative		viljaga	viljadega

• köögivili (“vegetable”)
• puuvili

From Proto-Oceanic (compare with Samoan fili and filifili plus Maori whiri (“to choose”)), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *piliq (compare with Malay pilih, Tagalog pili and pumili, Malagasy fidy), from Proto-Austronesian *piliq.^[1]

vili (vilika)

1. to pick, to gather

• Gatty, Ronald (2009) “vili, vilika”, in Fijian-English Dictionary, Suva, Fiji: Ronald Gatty, →ISBN, page 300

• IPA^(key): [ˈvili]
• Hyphenation: vi‧li
• Rhymes: -li

Clipping and -i diminutive of villamos (“tram”).

• villi

vili (plural vilik)

1. (informal) tram

   Synonym: villamos

Clipping and -i diminutive of világos (“clear”).

vili (not generally comparable, comparative vilibb, superlative legvilibb)

1. (informal) clear (free of ambiguity or doubt)

   Synonyms: világos, érthető

• (both senses): vili in Pusztai, Ferenc (ed.). Magyar értelmező kéziszótár (“A Concise Explanatory Dictionary of Hungarian”). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2003. 2nd, expanded and revised edition →ISBN. Online searchable version (under development)

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.li/
• Rhymes: -ili
• Hyphenation: vì‧li

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vili

1. plural of vile

vili m or f

1. plural of vile

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vili

1. masculine plural of vilio

From Old Norse vilja (“to want”), from Proto-Germanic *wiljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-.

• IPA^(key): [ʋɪ̀ːlɪ]

  Rhymes: -ɪ̀ːlɪ

vili

1. (with accusative) to want, wish, would like

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwiː.liː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈviː.li]

vīlī

1. dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of vīlis

From Proto-Germanic *wiljô, whence also Old English willa, Old High German willa.

vili m (genitive vilja, plural viljar)

1. will
2. (poetic) joy, delight
3. carnal lust

• viljalauss (“joyless”)

• vilja (“to want”)

• Icelandic: vilji m
• Faroese: vilji m
• Norwegian Bokmål: vilje m
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vilje m, vile m (nonstandard, dialectal)
• Jamtish: vili m
• Elfdalian: wile m
• Old Swedish: vili m, vilie m, vilia f
  • Swedish: vilja f, vilje
    • → Elfdalian: wila f
• Old Danish: vilje, vilge, vilgie
  • Danish: vilje
• Gutnish: vilä m

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “vili”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

vili

1. third-person singular/plural present active subjunctive of vilja

vili (Cyrillic spelling вили)

1. masculine plural active past participle of viti

• IPA^(key): [ˈvi.li]
• Hyphenation: vi‧li

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *wiliwili. Cognates include Emae viriviri and Wallisian vili.

vili (plural fetuli or fētutuli or taufetuli)

1. (intransitive) to run; to hurry
2. (intransitive) to escape; to run away

• While the sense "to run, hurry" uses all three plurals, the sense "to escape, run away" only uses the plurals fetuli and fētutuli.

From Proto-Polynesian *wili. Cognates include Hawaiian wili and Samoan vili.

vili

1. eddy, swirl

vili (plural tavili)

1. (intransitive) to spin; to whirl
2. (transitive) to drill; to bore
3. (transitive) to telephone
4. (transitive) to be in severe pain from

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *wili. Cognates include Tuvaluan vili and Samoan vili.

vili

1. lot (used to determine a question by chance)

From Proto-Polynesian *wili. Cognates include Tongan vili and Samoan vili.

vili

1. (transitive) to aim for

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[1], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 433