tai

From English Tai.

tai

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Tai languages.

From Japanese 鯛 (たい).

tai

1. A fish, the Japanese bream.

• taiyaki

• tai ji

• AIT, IAT, ITA, TIA, Tia, ait, ita, tia

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqi, compare Malay tahi.

tai

1. excrement, feces

From Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *isa, *əsa, from Proto-Austronesian *isa, *əsa, *asa.

Cognate with Maori tahi (“one”), Hawaiian kahi (“one”).

tai

1. one

Appears to be cognate with Maori tui (“to sew; to string or thread together”), Hawaiian kui (“needle, pin; to string or thread together”).

tai

1. to sew

• eeta

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

• taljiu, talju

From Late Latin taliō, from Latin talea. Compare Romanian tăia, tai.

tai first-singular present indicative (past participle tãiate)

1. alternative form of talj

• tãiari
• tãiat
• tãiture
• nitãiat / nitãiate

• dãsic
• astai

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqi, from Proto-Austronesian *Caqi.

tai (Balinese script ᬢᬳᬶ)

1. excrement, feces

• “tai” in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia], Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqi, from Proto-Austronesian *Caqi. Compare Tagalog tae.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaʔi/ [ˈt̪a.ʔɪ]
• Hyphenation: ta‧i

tai

1. feces
2. dung; animal excrement

tai

1. (vulgar) despicable

tai!

1. (vulgar) shit!

From Thai ไทย (tai).

tai n (genitive singular tais, uncountable)

1. Thai language

• tailendskt

From Proto-Central Pacific *taci, from Proto-Oceanic *tasik, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tasik.

tai

1. coast
2. sea-shore

• tahi (mostly archaic; see the below usage notes)

From earlier tahi (*tahdik), probably originally tah- +‎ -i (lative suffix), the stem of which is that of tahtoa (and also tahansa, tahallaan).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑi̯(ˣ)/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝i̯(ʔ)]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑi
• Syllabification^(key): tai
• Hyphenation^(key): tai

tai

1. (coordinating) or (in statements, or an inclusive or in questions)

   Sinä tai minä. ― You or me.

   Tajusin rakastuneeni, halusin tai en. ― I realised I'd fallen in love, whether I wanted to or not.

• On the differences between tai and vai (the latter may only be used in interrogative clauses):
  • tai is an inclusive or, while vai is an exclusive or. For instance, while Söitkö sinä leivän tai hedelmät? and Söitkö sinä leivän vai hedelmät? are both correct, the former asks in a yes (bread, fruit, or both) or no (none of them) question, while the latter asks which one you ate, the bread or the fruit.
  • Outside interrogative clauses, an explicit or may be expressed using joko ... tai (technically only for two options, but sometimes used also with more than two), or by using tai in conjunction with sitten or muuten.
• (tai/taikka/tahi):
  • In legal language, there exists a difference between tai and taikka. taikka is considered "stronger" than tai. For example, an attribute specified before a list will apply to every item with tai, but not with taikka. Generally speaking tai is seen as binding things closer together than taikka.

    tieteellinen tai historiallinen tutkimus taikka tilastointi ― scientific or historical research; or compiling statistics = any of the following: (a) scientific research, (b) historical research, (c) compiling statistics (not necessarily scientific or historical)

  • Colloquially tai and taikka are largely interchangeable and their use depends on the speaker.
  • Particularly in older legal texts, tahi is sometimes used as well, with the scale being tai < tahi < taikka (from weakest to strongest). tahi is otherwise now only used dialectally as an alternative form of tai.

• taikka, tahikka (less common; see the above usage notes)
• tahi (chiefly archaic; see the above usage notes)
• eli (archaic)

tai

1. OR (logic gate or connector)

Rarely inflected; if inflection is necessary, it is used as the first component in a compound, such as TAI-portti ("OR gate").

• vai

• “tai”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• -ita

Ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tasik.

tai

1. the sea
2. salt water

tai

1. Rōmaji transcription of たい
2. Rōmaji transcription of タイ

tai

1. romanization of ꦠꦲꦶ

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tahiq, from Proto-Austronesian *CaqiS.

• IPA^(key): /təˈiʔ/ [təˈiʔ]
• Hyphenation: ta‧i

taî

1. to sew

tai

1. this
2. that

tai

1. (Tarof) water

• taya (Kasuweri)

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics), page 103

Cognate with Lithuanian taip.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtài̯]
• Hyphenation: tai

tai

1. so (in this way)

tai

1. yes, that's right

• nui

• Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN

tai

1. to that; dative singular feminine of tas
2. in that; locative singular masculine of tas
3. in that; locative singular feminine of tas

Derived from an unattested neuter form *ta, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *tas, taˀ, ta (“that”); see tas for more. Evidence for a Common Baltic neuter form *ta (matching Proto-Slavic *to) can be observed in Old Prussian stas, sta(i), sta and the Latvian particle ta-. The suffix -aĩ is apparently formed by analogy with kai (“when, while”); see this entry for more.

• IPA^(key): /tɐɪ/

tai̇̃

1. (subordinating) that, then (in that case); introduces a complement to the main clause

   Jéi nóri, ir̃ rei̇̃kia. - If you want to, then you should

   Vi̇̀skas, kõ norė́jau, ti̇̀k išsimiegóti. - All I wanted was to have a good night's sleep.

2. (coordinating, correlative) first … then …

   vi̇́enas, ki̇̀tas atei̇̃na. - First one came, then another.

tai̇̃

1. (emphatic) puts additional emphasis on the subject of the clause; now that's … !; so that's … !

   và kur̃ ji̇̀s! - So that's where he is!

   Õ dabar̃ àš bėdojè. - And now it's me who's in trouble.

tai̇̃ (indeclinable)

1. (demonstrative) that (refers to an object or idea understood by both parties)

   įdomù - That's interesting

   Kàs yrà? - What is that?

2. (demonstrative) that, what (the first element of a relative clause, may be omitted)

   Tai̇̃, kàs išlieka ― What (=that which) remains.

   Gal jaũ lai̇̃kas darýti , kàs patiñka mán. - Perhaps it's time I did what I like for once.

• taigi
• tiktai
• šitai

• kai
• tas
• tad
• tada

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqi, from Proto-Austronesian *Caqi.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtai]

tai (Lontara spelling ᨈᨕᨗ)

1. feces
2. discharge, dirt (in compounds)

tai (tai⁵ / tai⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄊㄞ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 呔

tai

1. nonstandard spelling of tāi
2. nonstandard spelling of tái
3. nonstandard spelling of tǎi
4. nonstandard spelling of tài

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqi, compare Malay tahi.

tai

1. excrement, feces

From tahi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tahiq.

tai

1. to sew

From Proto-Polynesian *tai ‘shallow sea near shore; tide’, from Proto-Oceanic *tasik ‘sea; salt water’, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tasik (compare with Malay tasik).^[1]

Compare with Tahitian distinction between miti (nearshore), tai (offing) and moana.

tai

1. nearshore waters
2. seawards area including the coast

   Antonym: uta

3. tide

• moana

• Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 445-6

tai

1. alternative form of þei (“they”)

From Assamese তাই (tai, “she”), from Early Assamese তাই (tai, “she”), from Magadhi Prakrit 𑀢𑀸𑀏 (tāe, “by her”), from Sanskrit तया (tayā, “by her (instrumental case)”). Cognate with Sylheti ꠔꠣꠁ (tai).

tai

1. he, she

   Lazarus nam ekjon manu thakise. Tai laga duijon boinikhan thakise.

   A man names Lazarus lived. His two sisters lived.

From Classical Malay تاهي (tahi), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqi, from Proto-Austronesian *Caqi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.i/

tai

1. feces, excrement

• Betty Litamahuputty (2012) Ternate Malay: Grammar and Texts

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.i/
• Rhymes: -ai
• Syllabification: ta‧i

tai

1. third-person singular present of taić

From Proto-Polynesian *tasi.

tai

1. one, first, single

   Synonym: tayi

From Proto-Polynesian *tai, from Proto-Oceanic *tasik, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tasik.

tai

1. sea

   Ka wao au ki tai.

   I will jump into the sea.

2. ocean

   Na wō te kau tāne ki tai yī kakai.

   The men have gone to the ocean to fish for tuna.

3. tide

   Na wōwonu te tai i te mōtāyao, ko kikī i te ola lua nei.

   The tide was full in the morning, it is out now at two o'clock.

• taí (“lagoon side of the island or village”)
• tukutai (“beach, lagoon shore”)

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

tai

1. to carve, shape wood
2. to hew

• taitai (“cutting, hewing”)

• Te Pukamuna | Pukapuka Dictionary

From Proto-Polynesian *tai, from Proto-Oceanic *tasik, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tasik.

tai

1. sea

• IPA^(key): [taj]

tai

1. first/second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of tăia

Cognate with Northern Tepehuan taí, O'odham tai, Huichol tái, Cora taíj, Classical Nahuatl tletl, Mayo tajji.

tai

1. fire

• R. de Willett, Elizabeth, et al. (2016) Diccionario tepehuano de Santa María Ocotán, Durango (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 48)‎^[3] (in Spanish), electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 159

tai m (uncountable)

1. Tai

From English tie.

tai

1. to tie, to bind

• taitai
• titei

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

tai class IX (plural tai class X)

1. eagle

• kipungu

• tai mzoga (“vulture”)

Borrowed from English tie.^[1]

tai class IX (plural tai class X)

1. tie (article of clothing)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqi.

• (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA^(key): /taʔi/ [t̪aˈʔi]
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: ta‧i

tai (Sulat Sūg spelling تَئِ)

1. excrement, feces

• IPA^(key): [ˈta.i]

tai

1. the fish Lutjanus lemniscatus

• IPA^(key): [ˈta.i]

tai

1. (transitive) to stare at

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

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

From Proto-Vietic *saːj.

(classifier cái) tai • (腮, 𦖻, 哉, 𦖱, 顋, 𣌒)

1. (anatomy) ear

tai

1. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 災

• tia

• IPA^(key): /tai̯/
• Rhymes: -ai̯

tai m pl

1. plural of tŷ

tai

1. third-person singular counterfactual conditional colloquial of bod (used after pe (“if”), which can also be omitted)

   (pe) tai hi’n hapus ― if she were happy

• chai (allomorph after i)

From Proto-Cariban [Term?]. Compare Apalaí tae, Hixkaryana taye, Macushi tapai.

• IPA^(key): [taj]

tai

1. through, by; indicates motion by way of a non-aquatic object of class 2

This postposition cannot take person markers to indicate its object.

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tai”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[4], Lyon, pages 267–272, 451

tai

1. run

• http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf