jai

• IPA^(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /ɟai̯/ [ɟai̯]

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• Rhymes: -ai̯
• Hyphenation: jai

jai inan

1. festival

• jai alai - English name of pilota, pelota

• “jai”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “jai”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

• yai, iai

jai m/f pl

1. (third-person plural masculine and feminine pronoun, oblique case) them

• jali, jale
• joi (masc singular), joe (fem singular)
• jal, jala

jai

1. romanization of 𐌾𐌰𐌹

• jàyí (Benin)

From jẹ̀ (“to fall”) +‎ aí (“ground”), literally “to fall on the ground”. Cognates include Fon jàyǐ, Saxwe Gbe jɛ̀ nyì, Adja jè anyi, Ewe dze anyí

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒà.jí/

jàí (Nigeria)

1. to fall

From Proto-Malayic *jahət.

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒaeʔ/

jaiˀ

1. bad, evil (of personality)
2. broken (of stuff/things)
3. ugly (of appearance)

jai 

1. alternative form of jae (“chicken”)

jai f

1. third-person singular dative of ji

Cognate Acehnese jai.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɟai/, [ˈɟʝa.i]
• Hyphenation: ja‧i

jai (Lontara spelling ᨍᨕᨗ)

1. many, much, a lot

   Synonym: loe

   Jai doeʼna ― He has a lot of money.

   Pilaʼ jai tau battu ― More and more people are coming.

jai

1. grass, turf
2. woods

jai

1. alternative form of jay

• IPA^(key): [ˈhai̯]

jai

1. already

• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[1], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis)

From Late Latin gaius (“jay”), or a variant of gai (“joyous, cheerful”).

jai oblique singular, m (oblique plural jais, nominative singular jais, nominative plural jai)

1. jay (bird)

• French: geai
• Norman: geai
• → Middle English: jay, gaye, jai, jey
  • English: jay
  • Scots: jay

• IPA^(key): [hʷaj]

jai (possessed jaichü)

1. older sister
2. older female parallel cousin

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jai”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[2], Lyon
• Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, pages 62–65, 73: “jaichü”