lui

Clipping of English Luiseño or Spanish luiseño.

lui

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Luiseño terms

• a lui

From Late Latin illūi, which is a form of Latin illī (dative singular of ille). Compare Romanian lui.

lui m (genitive form of el, feminine equivalent ljei, plural lor)

1. his

lui m ((long/stressed) dative form of el, feminine equivalent ljei, plural lor)

1. to him

It is always preceded by 'a'- "a lui".

• ljei (feminine equivalent)
• el/elu (masculine singular nominative and masculine singular accusative- long/stressed form)
• ãlj/ilj/lji (masculine/feminine singular dative- short/unstressed form)
• ãl (masculine singular accusative- short/unstressed form)
• (a) lor (masculine/feminine plural genitive and masculine/feminine plural dative- long/stressed form)

• IPA^(key): /lœy̯/

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From Middle Dutch loy, from Proto-Germanic *lujaz. further etymology unsure. May be cognate with the Old Norse adjective lúinn (“exhausted”). Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *lewH- (“to cut off, separate, free”), source of Proto-Germanic *lausaz, Albanian lirë.^[1]

lui (comparative luier, superlative luist)

1. lazy

Declension of lui
uninflected	lui
inflected	luie
comparative	luier
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		lui	luier	het luist het luiste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	luie	luiere	luiste
	n. sing.	lui	luier	luiste
	plural	luie	luiere	luiste
definite		luie	luiere	luiste
partitive		luis	luiers	—

• Berbice Creole Dutch: loi
• Negerhollands: lui, loi, looje

Short form of luiden, a variant of lieden.^[2]

lui pl (plural only, diminutive luitjes n)

1. alternative form of lieden

• wijlui, gijlui, zijlui
• jongelui

• Petjo: lui, luitjes

• uil

Borrowed from French louer. Etymologically related to loko.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlui/

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• Rhymes: -ui
• Syllabification: lu‧i

lui (present luas, past luis, future luos, conditional luus, volitive luu)

1. (transitive) to rent (something from someone)

Inherited from Late Latin illui.

lui m (ORB, broad)

1. him (third-person singular masculine dative or tonic)

• lui in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca

• IPA^(key): /lɥi/
• (Belgium) IPA^(key): /lwi/

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• Rhymes: -i, -ɥi, -wi^{[usage 1]}

Inherited from Late Latin illui.

lui m

1. him, he, it; the third-person masculine singular personal pronoun used after a preposition, or as the predicate of a linking verb, or when disjoined from a sentence, or as a stressed subject

   Synonym: (argot) cézigue

   J'habitais avec lui.

   I was living with him.

   C'est lui qui a dit cela.

   It was him who said that.

   Lui, il n'en sait rien.

   He doesn't know anything about it.

   Suite à la mort de ses parents, ses deux sœurs sont prises en charge par des cousins; lui se retrouve à la capitale chez un oncle.

   When his parents died, his two sisters were taken in by cousins; [as for him,] he ended up in the capital living with an uncle.

   • 1873, Alphonse Daudet, Contes du Lundi, La Dernière Classe:

     Je crois aussi que je n'avais jamais si bien écouté, et que lui non plus n'avait jamais mis autant de patience à ses explications.

     I believe also that I had never listened so well, and that neither had he ever put so much patience into his explanations.

• Haitian Creole: li

lui m or f

1. him, her; the third-person singular personal pronoun used as an indirect object

   Je lui ai donné le livre.

   I gave the book to him/her.

see the verb luire

lui (intransitive, hence invariable)

1. past participle of luire

• “lui”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Inherited from Late Latin illui.

lui

1. he
2. you (formal)

Inherited from Late Latin illui. Compare Sicilian iḍḍu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈluj/

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• Rhymes: -uj
• Hyphenation: lùi

lui (plural loro, feminine lei)

1. he

   Synonym: egli

2. (disjunctive) him
3. it
   • 1472, Giusto de’ Conti, La bella mano, Giannalberto Tumermani (1750), page 122:

     Il cor meco s’adira, ed io con lui.

     My heart gets angry with me, and I with it.

   • 2000, Gianfranco Liori, Come un fumetto giapponese, Giunti, published 2008, page 64:

     Cercai il mio portafogli dentro lo zaino, ma era sparito anche lui e tutti i soldi che c’erano dentro.

     I looked for my wallet in the backpack, but it had disappeared as well, along with all the money inside.

• lui in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• ulì

lui

1. (intransitive) to melt
2. (intransitive) to dissolve

• palui

• Marian Klamer (1998), A Grammar of Kambera, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 179

luī

1. dative singular of luēs

lui (Early Medieval Latin)

1. alternative form of illui

luī

1. first-person singular perfect active indicative of luō

• "lui", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *luuy, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *lwi(y).

lui

1. river

lui (stem II luih)

1. to do intentionally, on purpose

• Used only as the final verb of a serial verb construction.

• Lorrain, J. Herbert (1940), “lui”, in Dictionary of the Lushai language, Calcutta: Asiatic Society

• lu' — informal
• луй (lui) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Inherited from Late Latin illūi.

• IPA^(key): /luj/

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• Rhymes: -uj
• Hyphenation: lui

lui m (genitive form of el, feminine equivalent ei, plural lor)

1. his

   Synonym: său

   Ai cartea lui?

   Do you have his book?

lui is invariable – it stays the same no matter the gender, number (singular/plural) or case of the thing that is possessed.

lui m (stressed dative form of el, feminine equivalent ei, plural lor)

1. (indirect object, third-person singular) to him

   Synonym: (unstressed form) îi

lui

2. genitive/dative article for proper names designating people that morphologically don't permit a suffix

   Casa lui Carmen.

   Carmen's house.

   Asta nu-i place lui Bogdan.

   Bogdan doesn't like this.

Whereas singular masculine proper names always form the genitive and dative using the preposed lui, feminine ones only do so when the specific name doesn't have a genitive/dative form itself: casa lui Carmen but casa Mariei. This rule is ignored by many in informal situations and lui is used with feminine names either way.

• -lui

• “lui”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

lui

1. inflection of luir:
   1. first-person singular preterite indicative
   2. second-person singular voseo imperative

From Proto-Oceanic *ruyuŋ with irregular l, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duyuŋ.

• IPA^(key): /lui/

lui

1. dugong

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*duyuŋ₂”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

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

lui • (𫩍 - 𨙝, 𬰉, 𨆢)

1. to step back; to recede; to move backward; to retreat
2. to (fall, look, think) back
3. (of disease, anger, etc.) to abate; to decrease
4. (rare) synonym of lùi (“to postpone”)

• lùi