fai

fai

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Faiwol.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Faiwol terms

• fae

From Albanian faj. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

fai f (plural fãi)

1. fault; sin

• (fault): ftexim, stepsu
• (sin): amãrtii

• fae

fai

1. third-person singular present indicative of faer
2. second-person singular imperative of faer

• IPA^(key): /faj/

fai

1. inflection of facer:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

   Por min fai o que quixeres.

   For me do whatever you want.

2. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of fazer:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “facer”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “fazer”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “facer”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.i/
• Rhymes: -ai
• Hyphenation: fài

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• fa' (imperative)

fai

1. inflection of fare:
   1. second-person singular present
   2. second-person singular imperative

• fai da te

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fai m

1. plural of faio

• AFI, fia, ifa

fai

1. plural of fal

fai

1. woman

• P. Sawardo, Struktur bahasa Lio (1987) (fai / ata fai)
• Louise Baird, A Grammar of Kéo: An Austronesian Language of East Nusantara (2002) (fai)

fai

1. woman

• A Grammar of Maybrat: A Language of the Bird's Head Peninsula, Papua Province, Indonesia (2007)

fai

1. woman

• Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science (2002): The Ngadha idiom is fai weta, [...] (fai is 'woman' or 'wife')
• Stephanus Djawanai, Ngadha Text Tradition: The Collective Mind of the Ngadha (1983), page 102

From Latin fidem.

fai f (plural fais)

1. faith

fai (Campidanese)

1. alternative form of fàghere (“to do; make”)

• IPA^(key): [ˈfa.i]

fai

1. (intransitive) to dig

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

From *bayi.

fai

1. to pound
2. to crash into

• IPA^(key): [ˈha.i]
• Hyphenation: fa‧i

From Proto-Polynesian *fai. Cognates include Maori whai and Samoan fai.

fai

1. (transitive) to do
2. (transitive) to make
3. (transitive) to fetch
4. (transitive) to install
5. (transitive) to repair
6. (transitive) to manufacture
7. (transitive) to be adopted
8. (transitive, of clothes) to wear
9. (transitive, of orders) to give

From Proto-Polynesian *fai. Cognates include Tongan fai and Samoan fai.

fai

1. (transitive) to rehearse
2. (transitive) to perform

From Proto-Polynesian *fai. Cognates include Tongan fai and Samoan fai.

fai

1. (transitive) to be in progress

From Proto-Polynesian *fai. Cognates include Maori whai and Samoan fai.

fai

1. whipray of the genus Himantura

Borrowed from Samoan faʻi.

fai

1. banana tree
2. banana fruit

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[2], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 51

• IPA^(key): /vai̯/

fai

1. soft mutation of bai

fai

1. soft mutation of bai

Cognate with Ternate hai (“centipede”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸa.i/

fai

1. a millipede, milliped

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸa.i/

fai

1. shoulder

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸa.i/

fai

1. wing

   Synonym: payapaya

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[3], Pacific linguistics (as fáy and fay)

From Proto-Tai *hwaːjᴬ (“dam”).^[1]

Cognate with Thai ฝาย (fǎai), Northern Thai ᨺᩣ᩠ᨿ, Lao ຝາຍ (fāi), Lü ᦚᦻ (ḟaay), Shan ၽၢႆ (phǎai) or ၾၢႆ (fǎai), Bouyei waail.

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /faːi˨˦/
• Tone numbers: fai¹
• Hyphenation: fai

fai (Sawndip forms 𭎶[2] or 𰄂[2] or ⿰土快[2] or 𱖾[2] or 沸[2] or 𣳢[2] or ⿰氵⿱正⿰正正[2] or ⿰木⿱正⿰正正[2] or 𫮏[2] or ⿰洡𠂢[2] or 湃[2] or 渄[2], 1957–1982 spelling fai)

1. dam