quei

From Old French quel, from Latin quālis, quālem.

quei (feminine singular quei or quâle, masculine plural queis, feminine plural queis or quâles)

1. which

   Quei janre de livre veus-tu aichetai ?

   Which kind of book do you want to buy?

2. (exclamative) what

   Quei caitaistrôphe !

   What a catastrophe!

quei (feminine singular quei or quâle, masculine plural queis, feminine plural queis or quâles)

1. (rare) what

   Quei ât son nom ?

   What is his name?

• douquei
• lequei
• auquei

• qui
• quoi

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwe.i/
• Rhymes: -ei
• Hyphenation: qué‧i

quei m pl

1. plural of quello

• Before consonants except impure s, gn, pn, ps, x, y, z; before dei, quegli is used instead.

quei m sg

1. Old Italian form of quegli
   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto II”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 103-105; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Beatrice, loda di Dio vera,
     chè non soccorri quei che t'amò tanto,
     ch'uscì per te della volgare schiera ?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Used before consonants, and especially before relative che.

• equi, equi-

• quoi, qoi (even earlier)

From Proto-Italic *kʷoi, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos, *kʷís.

quei m (Old Latin)

1. (interrogative) who, what, that, which

quei

1. (relative) who, what, that, which

• Latin: quī