хай

• няха́й (njaxáj)

Clipping of няха́й (njaxáj).

• IPA^(key): [xaj]
• Rhymes: -aj

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хай • (xaj)

1. let + subject + conjugated verb

Inherited from Proto-Ketic *pʰaj (“again”), possibly also related to Ket ха (hā, “...times”, multiplicative numeral formant).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [haˑj˧]

хай (hāj)

1. again; still, yet, another, some more, else, (...); also, too

Inherited from Proto-Ketic *pʰāˑj (“oar”, sailing implement).^[2]

• IPA^(key): [haˑj˧]

хай (hāj) n (plural хай (hàj))

1. oar (sailing implement)

• Central Ket varieties use хаае (hàːje) instead.

хай (hàj) n pl

1. absolutive plural of хай (hāj, “oar (sailing implement)”)

• Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 304, 311
• Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 177

From Proto-Tungusic *xia, compare Evenki экун (əkun), Even як (jak), Manchu ᠠᡳ (ai).

хай (hay)

1. what

• IPA^(key): [xaj]

хай • (xaj)

1. second-person singular imperative imperfective of ха́ять (xájatʹ)

From Proto-Selkup *sajə, from Proto-Samoyedic *səjmä, from Proto-Uralic *śilmä. Cognates include Nganasan сеймы (sjejmɨ), Finnish silmä and Hungarian szem.

хай (haj) (Narym)

1. eye
   • 2022, Grigorij Korotkih, Современный язык нарымских селькупов (overall work in Russian), page 81:

     Мат ни̇к кыга́к, ӄа́йгос ӄу́ла ми́нал э̄дэнд манэмба́т ай ха́йла табла́ннан че́лэешпат!

     Mat ni̇k kygák, qájgos qúla mínal ēdend manembát aj xájla tablánnan čjéleješpat!

     I wish people looked at our village and their eyes shine!

• G.V. Korotkih (2022), Современный язык нарымских селькупов [The modern language of Narym Selkups], Tomsk: Соиздательство ценных книг «Грасион», →ISBN, page 56 of 150

• неха́й (nexáj), най (naj)

Clipping of неха́й (nexáj).

• IPA^(key): [xai̯]

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хай • (xaj)

1. let + subject + conjugated verb

• хай живе́ (xaj žyvé, “long live”)
• хай так (xaj tak, “so be it”)
• хай щасти́ть (xaj ščastýtʹ, “good luck”)

Unknown.

хай • (qay)

1. (transitive) to follow

   Antonyms: дьаһай (jahay), салай (salay, “to lead”)

   суолун хай ― suolun qay ― to follow another's path, to follow in another's footsteps

2. (transitive) (hunting, general) to pursue (game, etc.)

   Synonym: ирдээ (irdee, “to pursue, to track down”)

   кыыл суолун хай ― kïïl suolun qay ― to follow the track of an animal

• хайыс (qayïs, “to turn”)