gi

See also: Appendix:Variations of "gi"

English

Etymology

From Japanese (gi, clothing); only used in combination, usually with the name of a martial art such as 柔道着 (jūdogi, judo uniform) or 空手着 (karategi, karate uniform)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡiː/
  • Rhymes: -iː
  • Homophone: ghee

Noun

gi (plural gis or gi)

  1. A martial arts uniform.
    • 1990, Thomas Pynchon, Vineland, Vintage 2000, p. 108:
      By the time they got up to the reception building, there was a welcoming committee standing in the lamp-lined drive, all in black gi, headed by a tall, fit, scholarly-looking woman named Sister Rochelle []

Anagrams


Breton

Noun

gi

  1. Soft mutation of ki.

Chamorro

Preposition

gi

  1. at
  2. in
  3. on

Cornish

Noun

gi

  1. Soft mutation of ki.

Greenlandic

Affix

gi

  1. have as (temporary use or possession)
    e.g. illugisara
    My house for the time being.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin (the name of the letter G).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒi/
  • Rhymes: -i
  • Hyphenation:

Noun

gi f (invariable)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter G.; gee

See also


Japanese

Romanization

gi

  1. Rōmaji transcription of
  2. Rōmaji transcription of

Lashi

Adjective

gi

  1. good

Particle

gi

  1. turns the preceding word into a nominative

References


Matal

Pronoun

gi

  1. I, me (first-person singular pronoun)
    Gi zil Yahudiya, tayyà gi à Tarsus uwana la Səlisəya, gi bəzi huɗ gudəŋ məŋga gà (Sləray 21:39).[1]
    I [am] a Jewish man, I was born in Tarsus which [is] in Cilicia, I [am] a man from an important city (Acts 21:39)
    Dagay lakana kadànəŋaw gi aya tsəràh à uwana (Mata 23:39).[2]
    For I tell you, you will never see me from now on until you say (Mathhew 23:39)

References


Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch , from Proto-Germanic *jūz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣiː/, /ɣi/

Pronoun

gi

  1. you (nominative, plural)
  2. you (nominative, singular, informal)

Usage notes

This pronoun began to replace the old singular form du during the Middle Dutch period, eventually replacing it altogether.

Inflection

Alternative forms

Descendants

Further reading

  • ghi”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • gi”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

Middle Low German

Etymology

From Old Saxon , from Proto-Germanic *jūz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʝiː/

Pronoun

  1. you, ye (nominative, plural)

Declension

Descendants


Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse gefa, from Proto-Germanic *gebaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰab(ʰ)-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jiː/
  • (file)

Verb

gi (imperative gi, present tense gir, simple past ga or gav, past participle gitt)

  1. to give (transfer the possession of something to someone else)

Derived terms

References


Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

gi (present tense gir, past tense gav, past participle gitt, passive infinitive givast, present participle givande, imperative gi)

  1. Alternative form of gje

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *jūz.

Pronoun

  1. you (plural)

Alternative forms

  • *gir (South-eastern)

Descendants

Further reading

  • gi, ir”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *jūz. Accusative and dative from Proto-Germanic *iwwiz, variant of *izwiz.

Pronoun

  1. you (plural)

Declension

Descendants

  • Middle Low German:

Romansch

Alternative forms

  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader) di
  • (Surmiran) de

Etymology

From Latin diēs.

Noun

gi m (plural gis)

  1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) day

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English give.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡi/, /d͡ʒi/

Verb

gi

  1. to give

Preposition

gi

  1. to (indicates indirect object)

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian gi.

Noun

gi

  1. The name of the Latin-script digraph GI/Gi/gi.
Usage notes
  • If gi represents the sound /z/ or /j/ before an i, that i is entirely merged with the gi. For example, use , gỉ, giết, not *giì, *giỉ, *giiết.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French ji.

Noun

gi

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter J.

Synonyms


Welsh

Noun

gi m

  1. Soft mutation of ci.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
ci gi nghi chi
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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