gi

From Japanese 着 (gi, “clothing”); only used in combination, usually with the name of a martial art such as 柔道着 (jūdōgi, “judo uniform”) or 空手着 (karategi, “karate uniform”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡiː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophone: ghee

gi (plural gis or gi)

1. A martial arts uniform.
   • 1990, Thomas Pynchon, Vineland, Vintage, published 2000, page 108:

     By the time they got up to the reception building, there was a welcoming committee standing in the lamp-lined drive, all in black gi, headed by a tall, fit, scholarly-looking woman named Sister Rochelle […]

   • 2022 September 20, Danya Hajjaji, “‘Really nice guy’: Tom Hardy surprises competitors with entry and victory in martial arts contest”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Attenders watched the Mad Max: Fury Road star, dressed in a blue gi, subdue his opponents and win all his matches. Hardy’s certificate of achievement was awarded to “Edward Hardy” – the actor’s real name.

• IG, Ig, ig

gi

1. soft mutation of ki

gi

1. at
2. in
3. on

gi

1. soft mutation of ki

From Hindi घी (ghī) or Urdu گھی (ghī), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀖𑀺𑀤 (ghida), from Sanskrit घृत (ghṛtá). Cognate of English ghee.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡi]
• Hyphenation: gi

gi (plural gi-gi)

1. (archaic, Hinduism) ghee

   Synonyms: minyak samin, cairan mentega

   Synonym: minyak sapi (Standard Malay)

• “gi” 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.

From Latin gē (the name of the letter G).

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒi/
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: gì

gi f (invariable)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter G/g.; gee

• (Latin-script letter names) lettera; a, bi, ci, di, e, effe, gi, acca, i, gei / i lunga, cappa, elle, emme, enne, o, pi, cu, erre, esse, ti, u, vu / vi, doppia vu, ics, ipsilon / i greca, zeta

Derived from English give.

• IPA^(key): /ɡi/

gi

1. to give
   • 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Ruoman 12:3:

     Kaaz a di gif we Gad gi mi, mi a tel unu: No bada tingk se unu muor dan wa unu riili bi. Insted-a dat unu fi ombl unuself an joj unuself bies pan di fiet we Gad gi unu

     For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.

   • 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Revilieshan 22:1:

     Den di ienjel shuo mi di riva wid di waata we gi laif. Di waata did a kom fram Gad an di Biebi Shiip chuon. Di waata did so klier it luk laik kristal.

     Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

     (literally, “Then the angel showed me the river with water that gives life. The water came from God and the Lamb throne. The water was so clear it looked like crystal”)

   • 2023, Yuunivorshal Deklarieshan a Yuuman Raits, United Nations, Aatikl 19:

     Evribadi av di rait fi bi frii fi se we dem waahn fi se an ekspres demself; dis miin se dem av di rait fi bi frii fi se we dem waahn fi se widout notn a get ina dem wie, an fi siik out, get an gi infamieshan an di tingz dem we dem tingk bout ina dem ed, bai eni miinz no mata di baada lain dem we set op ina dem konchri.

     Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

     (literally, “Everybody has the right to free to say what they want, to express themselves; this means that they have the right to be free to say what they want without anything happening to them and to seek out and give information  […]”)

• gi at majstro.com

gi

1. The hiragana syllable ぎ (gi) or the katakana syllable ギ (gi) in Hepburn romanization.

• (Waingmaw) IPA^(key): [ɡi˧˧]
• (Mongko) IPA^(key): [ke˧˧]
• Hyphenation: gi

gi

1. Used to mark the preceding noun as a subject.
   • 2005, “Apoem ayang꞉ 1:1 [Genesis 1:1]”, in Jhoem꞉ mougsougˮ [The Book of the Bible]‎^[2], page 2:

     Xang꞉ shiˮ moo Mangsoo gi mougkhung꞉ yoʼ myidjang ri phainˮ so꞉ toˮ.

     First, God created heaven and earth.

• Qingxia Dai, Jie Li (2007) 勒期语研究 [The study of the Leqi language], Beijing: Central Institute for Nationalities Publishing House, →ISBN, page 329
• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎^[3], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis), page 22

Cognate with Hiw ga, and also with Proto-Polynesian *kawa, Tongan kava. From Proto-Oceanic *kawaʀ.

• IPA^(key): /ɣi/

gi

1. kava plant, Piper methysticum
2. kava, an intoxicating beverage made from the kava plant.

• p.526 of: Alexandre François (2010), Pragmatic demotion and clause dependency: On two atypical subordinating strategies in the Lo-Toga and Hiw (Torres, Vanuatu), in Isabelle Bril (ed.), Clause Linking and Clause Hierarchy (Studies in Language Companion Series 121), 499–548. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

• IPA^(key): /ɡi/
• Rhymes: -i

From Hindi घी (ghī) or Urdu گھی (ghī), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀖𑀺𑀤 (ghida), from Sanskrit घृत (ghṛtá). Cognate of English ghee.

gi (Jawi spelling ݢي, plural gi-gi)

1. (archaic) ghee.

   Synonym: minyak sapi

Clipping of pergi.

gi (Jawi spelling ݢي)

1. (colloquial) alternative form of pergi

   Kau gi ngan siapa?

   Who are you going with?

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

gi

1. I, me (first-person singular pronoun)

   Gi zil Yahudiya, tayyà gi à Tarsus uwana la Səlisəya, gi bəzi huɗ gudəŋ məŋga gà (Sləray 21:39).^[1]

   I [am] a Jewish man, I was born in Tarsus which [is] in Cilicia, I [am] a man from an important city (Acts 21:39)

   Dagay lakana kadànəŋaw gi aya tsəràh à uwana (Mata 23:39).^[2]

   For I tell you, you will never see me from now on until you say (Mathhew 23:39)

From Old Dutch gī, from Proto-West Germanic *jiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *jūz.

• IPA^(key): /ɣiː/, /ɣi/

gi

1. you (nominative, plural)
2. you (nominative, singular, informal)

This pronoun began to replace the old singular form du during the Middle Dutch period, eventually replacing it altogether.

• ji

• Dutch: gij, jij
  • Afrikaans: jy
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: ju
  • Jersey Dutch: jāi
  • Negerhollands: joe, ju
  • Petjo: jij
• Limburgish: geer

• “ghi”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “gi”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

• gê, î, y, ie, jê

From Old Saxon gī, from Proto-Germanic *jūz.

• IPA^(key): /ʝiː/

gî

1. you, ye (nominative, plural)

• Low German: ji, jie
  • Plautdietsch: jie

From Old Norse gefa, from Proto-Germanic *gebaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰab(ʰ)-.

• IPA^(key): /jiː/

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gi (imperative gi, present tense gir, passive gis, simple past ga or gav, past participle gitt)

1. to give (to transfer the possession of something to someone else)

• “gi” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

gi (present tense gir, past tense gav, past participle gitt, passive infinitive givast, present participle givande, imperative gi)

1. alternative form of gje

• IPA^(key): /ɡí/

gí

1. to eat
2. to devour; to gnaw

• IPA^(key): /ɡí/

gí

1. to wear out

• IPA^(key): /ɡí/

gí

1. to stand

   Synonym: gíkinni

From Proto-West Germanic *jiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *jūz.

gī

1. you (plural)

• *gir (South-eastern)

• Middle Dutch: gi
  • Dutch: gij, jij
    • Afrikaans: jy
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: ju
    • Jersey Dutch: jāi
    • Negerhollands: joe, ju
    • Petjo: jij
  • Limburgish: geer

• “gi, ir”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

• IPA^(key): /jiː/

ġī

1. alternative form of ġēa

From Proto-West Germanic *jiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *jūz. Accusative and dative from Proto-Germanic *iwwiz, variant of *izwiz.

gī

1. you (plural)

• Middle Low German: gî, gê, î, y, ie, jê
  • Low German: ji, jie
    • Plautdietsch: jie

• vgi

• IPA^(key): /ki˧/

gi

1. dog.

• di (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader)
• de (Surmiran)

Inherited from Classical Latin diēs.

gi m (plural gis)

1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) day

From English give.

• IPA^(key): /ɡi/, /d͡ʒi/

gi

1. to give

gi

1. to (indicates indirect object)

gi

1. romanization of 𒄀 (gi)

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

Derived from Italian gi.

gi

1. The name of the Latin-script digraph GI/Gi/gi.

• If gi represents the sound /z/ or /j/ before an i, that i is entirely merged with the gi. For example, use gì, gỉ, giết, not *giì, *giỉ, *giiết.

Borrowed from French ji.

gi

1. The name of the Latin-script letter J/j.

• ri

gi m

1. soft mutation of ci

• IPA^(key): /ɡí/

gí

1. The name of the Latin-script letter G/g.

• (Latin-script letter names) lẹ́tà; á, bí, dí, é, ẹ́, fí, gí, gbì, hí, í, jí, kí, lí, mí, ní, ó, ọ́, pí, rí, sí, ṣí, tí, ú, wí, yí