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vi

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Translingual

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

  • VI
  • ↅ (obsolete)
  • VJ, vj (nonstandard)
  • VI. (ordinal number)

Numeral

vi

  1. Ⅵ, the Roman numeral six (6)
See also
  • Previous: ⅴ (five, 5)
  • Next: ⅶ (seven, 7)

Etymology 2

From either an Abbreviation of English Vietnamese or Vietnamese Tiếng Việt

Symbol

vi

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

See also

  • Wiktionary's coverage of Vietnamese terms

Etymology 3

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

Symbol

vi

  1. (music) minor submediant triad

English

Alternative forms

  • vi, v.i., v.i.

Pronunciation

Noun

vi

  1. (grammar) Initialism of verb intransitive or intransitive verb (often in dictionaries)

Related terms

  • v.t., v.t., vt, vt (= verb transitive, transitive verb)

See also

Anagrams

  • IV

Äiwoo

Adverb

vi

  1. down below

References

  • Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Aromanian

Alternative forms

  • vã

Etymology

Cf. the corresponding ni for noi. Compare Romanian vă. Compare also Italian vi

Pronoun

vi (unstressed/short accusative and reflexive form of voi)

  1. (direct object, second-person plural) you (group being addressed)

Related terms

  • voi (stressed/long form accusative)

Pronoun

vi

  1. (indirect object) (to) you (group being addressed)

Related terms

  • vau (stressed/long form dative)

See also

  • ni

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *āwyom (compare Welsh wy, Cornish oy), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”).

Noun

vi m

  1. egg

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan vi~vin, from Latin vīnum, from Proto-Italic *wīnom, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [ˈbi]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈvi]
  • Rhymes: -i

Noun

vi m (plural vins)

  1. wine (alcoholic beverage)

Derived terms

Related terms

References

  • “vi” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “vi”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
  • “vi” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “vi” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Corsican

Etymology

From voi (“you”). Compare Italian vi and Romanian vi.

Pronoun

vi

  1. you (plural, both direct or indirect object)

See also

References

  • https://infcor.adecec.net/

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin vīvus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /βi/

Adjective

vi m (plural vei)

  1. alive, living

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse vér, from Proto-Germanic *wīz, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy, plural of *éǵh₂.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vi/, [ʋi]
  • Rhymes: -i

Pronoun

vi (first-person plural nominative, accusative os, genitive vores, c vor, n vort, pl vore)

  1. we

See also

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian voi, French vous and/or Russian вы (vy), plus the i of personal pronouns.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [vi]
  • Hyphenation: vi

Pronoun

vi (accusative vin, possessive via)

  1. (second-person plural and formal singular pronoun): you
    Vi batis min. ― You hit me.
  2. yourselves
    Vi diras al vi. ― You say to yourselves.

Related terms

See also

Ewe

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /viː/

Adjective

vi

  1. little
  2. small

Noun

vi

  1. child (a son or daughter)
  2. descendant

Galician

Verb

vi

  1. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of ver

Gun

Alternative forms

  • òví

Etymology

From Proto-Gbe *-ví, cognates include Saxwe Gbe ovi, Fon ví, Adja evi, Ewe vi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ví/

Noun

ví (plural ví lɛ́ or ví lẹ́)

  1. child
    Synonyms: òví, yɔ̀kpɔ́, yọ̀pọ́

Derived terms

Ido

Etymology

vu (“you”) +‎ -i (“-s; plural”)

Pronoun

vi pl

  1. you (plural)

Related terms

  • tu
  • vu

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvi/
  • Rhymes: -i
  • Hyphenation: vì

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

  • -vi (enclitic)

Pronoun

vi

  1. second-person personal plural object pronoun: you, to you
    (noi) vi amiamo ― we love you
  2. second-person reflexive plural: yourselves
    (voi) vi ricordate ― you remember
  3. (often not translated) it; about it, of it, on it
Usage notes
  • Becomes ve when followed by a third person direct object clitic (lo, la, li, le, or ne).
See also

Etymology 2

From Latin ibi.

Adverb

vi

  1. (formal) there
    Synonym: ci
  2. (formal) here
    Synonym: ci
Usage notes
  • Stylistically elevated variant of ci, only used in formal contexts.

Etymology 3

Noun

vi f (invariable)

  1. Alternative form of vu

Japanese

Romanization

vi

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ゔぃ
  2. Rōmaji transcription of ゐ゙
  3. Rōmaji transcription of ヴィ
  4. Rōmaji transcription of ヸ

Latin

Noun

vī f

  1. ablative singular of vīs (“force, strength”)
  2. dative singular of vīs (rare)

References

  • “vi”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Maonan

Noun

vi

  1. fire

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʋiː/

Pronoun

vi

  1. we

Etymology 2

Verb

vi

  1. imperative of vie

See also

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Probably with influence from Swedish vi and Danish vi, from Old Norse vér, from Proto-Germanic *wīz, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy, plural of *éǵh₂.

Alternative forms

  • me
  • oss (dialectal, Trøndelag dialect)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʋiː/

Pronoun

vi

  1. we

See also

Etymology 2

Verb

vi

  1. imperative of via

Etymology 3

Verb

vi

  1. Eye dialect spelling of vil.

References

  • “vi” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • IV, VI, -iv

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin vīdī. Cognate with Galician vin and Spanish vi.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -i
  • Homophone: vir (Brazil)
  • Hyphenation: vi

Verb

vi

  1. first-person singular preterite indicative of ver

Romanian

Pronoun

vi (dative form of voi; form of vă )

  1. to you

Usage notes

This word is used when vă (which is dative) is combined with the following accusatives:

  • îl (the accusative of el, contracted as vi-l)
  • îi (the accusative of ei, contracted as vi-i)
  • le (the accusative of ele)
  • se (the reflexive accusative of all third-person pronouns)

See also

  • li
  • ni

Sassarese

Alternative forms

  • v' (apocopic)
  • -vi (enclitic)

Etymology

From Latin ibi (“there; then”), from Proto-Italic *iðei or *ifei with iambic shortening, from the pronominal stem Proto-Indo-European *éy.

Adverb

vi

  1. here
    Synonym: zi
    1. in or at this place
    2. to or into this place
  2. there
    Synonym: zi
    1. in or at that place
    2. to or into that place

Pronoun

vi

  1. (accusative) you (plural)
  2. (dative) to you (plural)
    Abà vi diggu la veriddai ― I'll tell you the truth now (literally, “Now to you I tell the truth”)
  3. it, to it
    no vi credu ― I don't believe it (literally, “Not to it I believe”)

Related terms

References

  • Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vy.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʋîː/

Pronoun

vȋ (Cyrillic spelling ви̑)

  1. you (nominative plural of tȋ (“you”))
  2. you (vocative plural of tȋ (“you”))
  3. (formal) you (formal singular and plural)

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *vy.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʋíː/

Pronoun

vȋ

  1. you (masculine plural, more than two)
  2. (formal) you (masculine singular)

Inflection

Derived terms

  • vīkati

See also

Spanish

Alternative forms

  • vide (archaic, regional)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbi/ [ˈbi]
  • Rhymes: -i
  • Syllabification: vi

Verb

vi

  1. first-person singular preterite indicative of ver

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish vīr, from Old East Norse *wīʀ (compare vér), from Proto-Germanic *wīz, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy, plural of *éǵh₂.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /viː/
  • Rhymes: -iː

Pronoun

vi

  1. we (first-person personal plural subject pronoun)
    • 1791, Carl Michael Bellman, Fredmans sånger, N:o 21
Usage notes

A standalone "That is us" is idiomatically "Det är vi" rather than "Det är oss." Compare "That is I" in (taught) English, which also uses the subject form. See the quotations above for an example.

Declension

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish hvi, from Old Norse hví, from Proto-Germanic *hwī (“by what, how”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷey, locative of *kʷis (“who”). Cognate with Old Danish hvi, Danish hvi, Old West Norse hví, Norwegian Nynorsk kvi, Norwegian Bokmål hvi, Old Saxon hwi, hwiu, Old High German hwiu, Middle High German wiu, German wie (“how”), Old English hwȳ, hvī, Middle English why, English why, more distantly with Latin quī (“what, who, which”).

Alternative forms

  • hvi (pre-1906 spelling)

Adverb

vi

  1. (archaic or poetic) why
    • 1541, Gustav Vasa Bible, Matthew 9:5
    Synonym: varför

Etymology 3

From Old Norse vé, from Proto-Germanic *wīhą, from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to choose, separate out, set aside as holy, consecrate, sacrifice”). Cognate with Latin victima (“offering, sacrifice”).

Noun

vi n

  2. sanctuary
Related terms
  • viga

References

  • vi in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • vi in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • vi in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

  • -iv

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English vee, the English name of the letter V/v.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /vi/ [vɪ]
    • IPA(key): (more native-sounding) /bi/ [bɪ]
  • Rhymes: -i
  • Syllabification: vi

Noun

vi (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒ)

  1. the name of the Latin-script letter V/v, in the Filipino alphabet
    Synonym: (in the Abecedario) ve

See also

  • (Latin-script letter names) titik; ey, bi, si, di, i, ef, dyi, eyts, ay, dyey, key, el, em, en, enye, en dyi, o, pi, kyu, ar, es, ti, yu, vi, dobolyu, eks, way, zi

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [vi˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [vɪj˧˧]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [vɪj˧˧] ~ [jɪj˧˧]

Etymology 1

Noun

(classifier cái) vi

  1. (anatomy, especially of sharks) Alternative form of vây (“fin”)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from 微.

Prefix

vi

  1. micro-
Derived terms

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