fili

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈfi.li]

fili

1. inflection of filar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• filis

Compare Mende fili (“tassel, the bread of grain”).

• IPA^(key): /ʔfi.li/

fili (’fili)

1. corn
2. hominy
3. coarse bread

• Lorenzo Dow Turner (1969) Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect

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

• IPA^(key): /fíː.líː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ɸíː.líː]

fīlī m (plural fīlā̀yē, possessed form fīlin)

1. open field, plot of land, square
2. (by extension) opportunity, chance, opening

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.li/
• Rhymes: -ili
• Hyphenation: fì‧li

fili m

1. plural of filo

fili

1. inflection of filare:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person singular imperative

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

fīlī m

1. genitive/vocative singular of fīlius

fīlī n

1. genitive singular of fīlum

fili

1. romanization of ᡶᡳᠯᡳ

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *piliq, from Proto-Austronesian *piliq.

fili (imperfective mamili)

1. (transitive) to choose

• Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 69.

From the suffix -fili.

fili m (definite singular filien, indefinite plural filiar, definite plural filiane)

1. (countable) a philia

fili f

1. (non-standard since 2012) definite singular of fil

From Primitive Irish ᚃᚓᚂᚔᚈᚐᚄ (velitas), from Proto-Celtic *welīts.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɸʲilʲi]

fili m (genitive filed, nominative plural filid)

1. poet, seer
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 162^a3

     In tan labratar ind ḟilid a persin inna ṅdea, do·gniat primam ⁊ secundam in illis.

     When the poets speak in the person of the gods, they make a first and second [person] in them.

• filedacht
  • Middle Irish: filidecht
    • Irish: filíocht
    • Manx: feeleeaght
    • Scottish Gaelic: filidheachd

• Irish: file
• Manx: feelee
• Scottish Gaelic: filidh

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fili”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Proto-Polynesian *fili (compare with Tongan fili and Maori whiri), from Proto-Oceanic (compare with Fijian vili (“to pick, to gather”)), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *piliq (compare with Malay pilih, Tagalog pili and pumili), from Proto-Austronesian *piliq.^[1]

fili

1. to choose, to pick
2. to elect

• filifili

From Proto-Polynesian *fili, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *piliq, from Proto-Austronesian *piliq.

• IPA^(key): /fi.li/

fili

1. to choose, to pick
2. to elect