yakni

Choctaw

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Muskogean *ixakanika.

Noun

yakni (transcription yakní', alienable)

  1. the Earth, the world
  2. earth, soil, ground
  3. country
    Chahta yakni
    Choctaw country

Declension

possessive (alienable) singular paucal plural
first-person ("my, our") a̱yakni pi̱yakni hapi̱yakni
second-person ("thy, your") chi̱yakni hachi̱yakni
third-person ("his, her,
its, their") 		i̱yakni

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay yaini, yakni, ya’ani, from Classical Malay ينا (yani), يني (yani), ياءني (ya’ni), يعني (ya‘ni), from Arabic يَعْنِي (yaʕnī).[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈjaʔni/ [ˈjaʔ.ni]
  • Rhymes: -aʔni
  • Syllabification: yak‧ni

Conjunction

yakni

  1. that is, in other words, i.e.
    Synonym: yaitu

References

  1. ^ Erwina Burhanuddin, Abdul Gaffar Ruskhan, R.B. Chrismanto (1993) Penelitian kosakata bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia [Research on Arabic vocabulary in Indonesian]‎[1], Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, →OCLC

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