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, Aja (West Africa) 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]
• Hyphenation: jai

jai

1. already
   • 2008 [1978], Huitoto Murui Bible, 2nd edition, Mateo 1:19:

     María jai uruesillana naimɨe mɨcorɨ fɨdɨanona, naiñaiñona meidaitañellena jira, naiñaiñona bainino dotaacade.

     After he found out that Mary was already pregnant, because he became embarrassed with her, he wanted to leave her in secret.

• Shirley Burtch (1983), Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎^[1] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 120
• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017), A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[2], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 11

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^[3], 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”