hai

Clipping of English Haida.

hai

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Haida.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Haida terms

Intentional misspelling modelled after romaji.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪ̯/

• Audio (US):

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hai

1. (Internet slang) Hi.
   • 2023 June 5, Rebecca Gillam, “18 celebs who swear by weight training, from Adele to Millie Mackintosh & Frankie Bridge”, in Women's Health‎^[1]:

     As her famously no-BS longtime PT Don Saladino, who has a next-level celeb roster (oh HAIII, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt!), told WH: ‘It’s about improving your body’s resilience and energy […] making sure we’re optimising everything we do’.

• AIH, HIA, ahi

• (Myanmar) /hɑi˧/
• (Lianghe) [xɑi⁵⁵]
• (Longchuan) [xai⁵⁵]
• (Xiandao) [xai⁵⁵]

hai

1. this

• Inglis, Douglas; Sampu, Nasaw; Jaseng, Wilai; Jana, Thocha (2005), A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎^[2], Payap University, page 41

hai

1. yes

hai

1. fire

• Robert Lee Litteral, Features of Angor Discourse (1980)

hai

1. (Chungli, Mongsen) Expresses acceptance of a proposition or request: OK

   Antonym: ma

• A. R. Coupe (2007), A grammar of Mongsen Ao, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 129, 405

hai

1. four

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

hai

1. third-person singular present indicative of haber

From Swedish haj (“shark”), from Dutch haai (“shark”).

hai (genitive hai, partitive haid)

1. shark

Declension of hai (ÕS type 26/koi, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		hai	haid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	hai
genitive			haide
partitive		haid	haisid
illative		haisse	haidesse
inessive		hais	haides
elative		haist	haidest
allative		haile	haidele
adessive		hail	haidel
ablative		hailt	haidelt
translative		haiks	haideks
terminative		haini	haideni
essive		haina	haidena
abessive		haita	haideta
comitative		haiga	haidega

• haikala

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑi̯/, [ˈhɑ̝i̯]
• Rhymes: -ɑi
• Syllabification^(key): hai
• Hyphenation^(key): hai

Borrowed from Swedish haj (“shark”), itself from Dutch haai (“shark”) from Old Norse hákarl (“shark”).

hai

1. shark

   Synonym: haikala

• “1. hai”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

Borrowed from English high, from high card.

hai

1. (poker) high card

Often preceded with the rank of the high card, such as ässähai for "ace high (card)".

• “2. hai”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[4] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

Poker hands in Finnish · käsi, pokerikäsi (layout · text)
hai	pari	kaksi paria	kolmoset, kolme samaa	suora
väri	täyskäsi	neloset, neljä samaa	värisuora	kuningasvärisuora

• hia, iha

hai

1. first-person singular present active indicative of havoir

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese hay, from ha + y, "there is".

• IPA^(key): [ˈaj]

hai

1. (reintegrationist norm, less recommended) third-person singular present indicative of haver
2. (impersonal) third-person singular present indicative of haber (there is, there are)

   Hai dous nomes diferentes. ― There are two different names.

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “aver”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “hay”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “haber”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

hai

1. let us, 1st person plural imperative

   Hai an·ching nokona re·anga

   Let's go home

hai

1. alternative spelling of hąįʼ

• IPA^(key): /ˈhai̯/, [ˈhɐj], [ˈhɛj] (rapid speech)

From Proto-Polynesian *fa(q)i (“rite”). Cognate with Māori whai (“perform (a rite)”), Samoan fai (“do, speak”).

hai

1. (transitive) to offer, to sacrifice

• haina (“sacrifice”)
• haipule (“devout”)
• mōhai (“to offer”)

hai

1. offering, sacrifice

Borrowed from English hire.

hai

1. (transitive) to hire

• hai in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.

From Malay hai, clipping of wahai or duhai.

Modern use since digitalization (c. 1980s) as an informal greeting influenced by English hi.

• IPA^(key): /haɪ/

hai

1. hi

• “hai”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• ài (obsolete)
• ai (hypercorreted, misspelled, proscribed)

• IPA^(key): /ˈaj/
• Homophone: ai
• Rhymes: -aj
• Hyphenation: hài

hai

1. second-person singular present indicative of avere and (obsolete) havere

• ahi

hai

1. Rōmaji transcription of はい

• hāi

From Dutch hij. Cognates include Afrikaans hy.

• IPA^(key): /hai/, /hɛi/

hai

1. alternative form of hāi

• IPA^(key): /haɪ̯/

hai m (German Low German)

1. (Märkisch, Sauerländisch, Brazilian Pomeranian) he

   [Brazilian] Hai sit dicht am füür.

   He is sitting next to the fire.

• hei

(Sauerländisch)

• ik (“I”)
• diu (“thou, you (sg.)”)
• iämme (rarely iäme) (“him (dat.)”)
• iänne (“him (dat., acc.)”)
• sai (“she; her (acc.)”)
• iär (“her (dat.)”)
• et (“it”)
• sai (“they”)

(Brazilian)

• ik (“I”)
• duu (“thou, you (sg.)”)
• wij (“we”)
• jij (“you (pl.)”)
• sai (“they”)

• Gertjan Postma, A Contrastive Grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today, vol. 248), 2019, p. 103

Clipping of wahai or duhai.

Modern use since 1980s influenced by English hi.

• IPA^(key): /hai̯/
• Rhymes: -ai̯

hai (Jawi spelling هاي)

1. (literary) Used to call out to people.

   Synonym: wahai

   Hai orang-orang yang beriman!

   O, people who believe!

2. [since 20th century] (informal) Used as a greeting; hi.

   Synonyms: helo, salam, assalamualaikum

   Hai, tengah buat apa ni?

   Hi, whatcha doing?

• "hai" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

hai

1. nonstandard spelling of hāi
2. nonstandard spelling of hái
3. nonstandard spelling of hǎi
4. nonstandard spelling of hài

• 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.

hai

1. (playing cards) ace

• “hai” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

hai (haies)

1. alternative form of haye (“hunting net”)

hai

1. alternative form of hey (“hey”)

hai

1. alternative form of hey (“hay”)

hai (haies)

1. alternative form of heye (“hedge”)

hai

1. alternative form of haven (“to have”)

• xai (in older Americanist literature)

From Proto-Athabaskan *x̣αy. Related to the root -HAI (“a winter or a year passes”).

• IPA^(key): /hɑ̀ɪ̀/

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hai

1. winter

   Haigo deeskʼaaz łeh. ― It’s usually cold in the winter.

• haidą́ą́ʼ (“last winter”)
• haigo (“in winter”)
• haiʼííłnííʼ (“midwinter”)
• dííghaaí (“this winter”)

Seasons in Navajo · (layout · text) · category
daan (“spring”)	shį́ (“summer”)	aakʼeed (“autumn”)	hai (“winter”)

hai

1. big

From Dutch haai.

hai m (definite singular haien, indefinite plural haier, definite plural haiene)

1. a shark

• “hai” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Dutch haai, from Old Norse hár, whence also hå.

hai m (definite singular haien, indefinite plural haiar, definite plural haiane)

1. a shark

   Synonym: hå

• “hai” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• Rhymes: -i

hai

1. to write

• Canese, Natalia Krivoshein de; Alcaraz, Feliciano Acosta (2016), “hai”, in Ñe’ẽryru [Dictionary] (overall work in Spanish), Asunción: Instituto Superior de Lenguas, →ISBN, page 24, column 2

Clipping of haide.

• IPA^(key): [haj]

• Audio:

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hai

1. (with subjunctives) let's

   hai să mergem

   let's go

Hai is a word expressing inclination toward an action. It is often used to introduce suggestions, such as that in the given example.

• haide, haidem, haideți, haios

• hei (Puter, Vallader)

hai

1. (Vallader) yes (used to indicate agreement with the speaker in a conversation)

• bainschi hai

• IPA^(key): /ˈai/ [ˈai̯]
• Rhymes: -ai
• Syllabification: hai

hai

1. (archaic, impersonal third-person singular indicative present of haber) there is, there are

   Synonym: hay

   Hai dos tiendas que venden películas.

   There are two stores that sell films.

2. (Chile) second-person singular voseo present indicative of haber; you have

Borrowed from Arabic حَيّ (ḥayy).^[1]

• Audio (Kenya):

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hai (invariable)

1. alive (not dead)
2. organic (living)

• uhai (“life”)

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [haːj˧˧]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [haːj˦˥]

From Proto-Tai *ʰŋaːjᴬ; cognate with Lao ຫງາຍ (ngāi), Shan ငၢႆ (ngǎai), Thai หงาย (ngǎai).

hai (Nôm form 胎)

1. moon

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

hai

1. to lay eggs
2. to macerate

• Dương Nhật Thanh; Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003), Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[5] (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]
• Hoàng Văn Ma; Lục Văn Pảo; Hoàng Chí (2006), Từ điển Tày-Nùng-Việt [Tay-Nung-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Từ điển Bách khoa Hà Nội
• Lương Bèn (2011), Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎^[6][7] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên

Cognate with West Makian fai (“millipede”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈha.i/

hai

1. centipede

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

From English hi.

hai

1. hello

From Proto-Oceanic *kayu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kahiw, from Proto-Austronesian *kaSiw.

• IPA^(key): /ɣai/

hai

1. tree

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
• Johnston, R.L. 1982. "Proto-Kimbe and the New Guinea Oceanic hypothesis". In Halim, A., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. editors. Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Vol. 1: Currents in Oceanic, 59-95.

Vietnamese cardinal numbers

<  1	2	3  >
Cardinal : hai     Ordinal : thứ nhì, thứ hai

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

• Audio (Hà Nội):

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From Proto-Vietic *haːr, from Proto-Austroasiatic *ɓaːr (or some variant presented by Proto-Palaungic *ləʔaːr, Khasi ar, Central Nicobarese [Nancowry] âṅ; Shorto reconstructed Pre-Mon-Khmer *biʔaar). Cognate with Muong hal, Khmer ពីរ (pii), Bahnar 'bar, Pacoh bar, Khasi ar, Mon ၜါ, Santali ᱵᱟᱨ (bar).

Insertion of initial *h in Vietic can also be seen in *huːɲ (“to kiss”) (> Vietnamese hôn), *heːt (“finished”) (> Vietnamese hết), *hanʔ (“he, she, it”) (> Vietnamese hắn), *hoːj (“foul-smelling”) (> Vietnamese hôi), *tŋ-ʔaːm (> Vietnamese hàm, Late Vietic), *hɔːŋʔ (“river, brook”), *haːŋʔ (“to open (mouth)”).

hai (𠄩, 咍, 台)

1. two

hai • (𠄩, 咍, 台)

1. (Southern Vietnam, of a sibling) eldest or elder; firstborn

   Synonym: cả

   anh/chị hai ― eldest brother/sister

   bác hai ― eldest brother/sister of one's parent

• nhị; nhì

Borrowed from English hi (“hello”).

Further reinforced/contaminated by the coincidental usage of "two" (see etymology above) fingers when making V sign, therefore Vietnamese speakers would likely make V signs when being told to say "hai"/hi when photographed.

hai!

1. cheese! (said while being photographed)

• hia

From Mandarin 是 (shì).

• IPA^(key): [he]

hai

1. to be; the copula:
   1. Indicates that the subject and object are the same.

      je ngu-de huaiqa hai-yek.

      As for this, it is my book.

      (Quoted in Sandman, p. 133)

   2. Indicates that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or predicate adjective.

      shetek bin~bin-de hai-li.

      The rock is cold.

      (Quoted in Sandman, p. 133)

   Antonym: bai

• yek (“to be at; to exist”)

• Erika Sandman (2016), A Grammar of Wutun‎^[8], University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN

From Chinese 開 (MC khoj).

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /haːi˨˦/
• Tone numbers: hai¹
• Hyphenation: hai

hai (Sawndip forms 𢵱 or 亥 or 海 or 𰿿, 1957–1982 spelling hai)

1. to open

• IPA^(key): /hai̯˧/

hai

1. mango

• IPA^(key): /hai̯˧˥/

hái

1. (intransitive) to chew
2. (transitive) to skim off

• IPA^(key): /hai̯˧˩/

hài

1. cup

• IPA^(key): /hai̯˧˩/

hài

1. (transitive) to forget

• Chungkham Yashawanta Singh; Lukram Himmat (2013), A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 62