kui

kui

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Kuikúro.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Kuikúro terms

kui

1. dog

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

From Proto-Finnic *ku.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkui̯/, [ˈkui̯]
• Rhymes: -ui
• Hyphenation: kui

kui

1. as, like

   Synonym: nagu

   Mees oli tugev kui karu.

   The man was as strong as a bear.

   Sinu isa kui tohter peaks seda teadma.

   Your father, as a doctor, should know this.

2. than

   Jaak on pikem kui Peeter.

   Jaak is taller than Peeter.

   Ülesanne osutus raskemaks, kui oletasime.

   The task turned out harder than we had assumed.

3. Forms certain emphatic phrases.

   iga viimane kui ― every last

   samahästi kui ― as good as

   mitte kui miski ― nothing

4. when, once

   Kui lapsed olid söönud, läksid nad õue.

   Once the children had eaten, they went outside.

5. if

   Kui säärane olukord edasi kestab, on meie lugu väga halb.

   If such a situation continues, we'll have a very bad time.

kui (not comparable)

1. how

   Kui vana sa oled?

   How old are you?

   Kui palju see maksab?

   How much does this cost?

• kui in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “kui”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

Clipping of kuin(ka).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkui̯/, [ˈkui̯]
• Rhymes: -ui
• Syllabification^(key): kui
• Hyphenation^(key): kui

kui (colloquial)

1. how
2. why (are you asking)

   Joo muistan... kui?

   Yeah I remember... why?

• (how): kuinka, miten
• (why): kuinka niin

• iku-

From Proto-Polynesian *tui (“to thread on string”) (compare with Māori tui)^[1][2] from Proto-Oceanic *tuRi₁ from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuhuR (“to string together”) (compare with Tagalog tuhog).^[2][3]

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.i/, [ˈku.wi]

kui

1. to thread, to string together

• kukui

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈkui̯/, [ˈkui̯]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈkui̯/, [ˈkui̯]
• Rhymes: -ui̯
• Hyphenation: kui

kui

1. alternative form of kuin
   • 1936, L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli, translated by Mihailov and P. I. Maksimov, Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart (ensimäine osa) [Geography: textbook for Ingrian elementary school third grade (first part)], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 6:

     Miä muissin, kui möö hulkuimma metsää mööt, yhenlain ku sokkiat, ja nyt kovin meinaisin oppihussa löytämää teetä, samalviittää kui pioneerat.

     I remembered, how we wandered along the forest, like we were blind, and now I really decided to learn to find the way, just like the pioneers.

• Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014), Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎^[1], →ISBN, page 57

kui

1. Rōmaji transcription of くい

kui

1. nonstandard spelling of kuwi

kui

1. how

kui

1. to sleep
2. to copulate

• Paul J. Sidwell, Proto South Bahnaric: A Reconstruction of a Mon-Khmer Language of Indo-China (2000)

From the instructive plural *kuin of Proto-Finnic *ku. Compare Estonian kui.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkui/, [ˈku̯iˑ]

kui

1. how
2. (chiefly in the negative) (not) very
3. like (in a way similar to)
4. somehow

kui

1. so (much) that, to the extent that

• Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “kui”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎^[2] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra

Ultimately from Proto-Finnic *ku. Cognates include Finnish kui and Ingrian kui.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkui̯/
• Hyphenation: kui

kui

1. how? (interrogative)

   Kui se sanohes livvikse? ― How is this called in Livvi?

2. how (relative)

   Se on, kui luadie. ― This is how to do it.

3. how! (exclamatory)

   Kui olet kaunis! ― How pretty are you!

kui

1. (just) like

   Hyö ollah kui lapset. ― They are like children.

• Tatjana Boiko (2019), Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 124

kui

1. nonstandard spelling of kuī
2. nonstandard spelling of kuí
3. nonstandard spelling of kuǐ
4. nonstandard spelling of kuì

• 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.

kui f

1. (non-standard since 2012) definite singular of ku

kui

1. eight

• Claudia Wegener (2012), A Grammar of Savosavo, Berlin: De Gruyter, →OCLC, page 73

kui

1. head

• Abbi, Anvita; R, Vyaskh (2020), “Aspects of word formation processes in Luro: The endangered language of the Nicobar Islands”, in Asian Language and Linguistics‎^[3]

From the instructive plural *kuin of Proto-Finnic *ku. Cognate with Finnish kuin, Ingrian kui and Estonian kui.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈkui̯/, [ˈkui̯]
• (Jõgõperä) IPA^(key): /ˈkui̯/, [ˈkui̯]
• Rhymes: -ui̯
• Hyphenation: kui

kui

1. (interrogative) how?
2. (relative) how
3. however, no matter how

kui

1. (relative) when
2. if
3. than (in comparisons)

• Hallap, V.; Adler, E.; Grünberg, S.; Leppik, M. (2012), “kui”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn