oui

From French oui (“yes”).

• IPA^(key): /wiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

oui

1. (quaint) Synonym of yes

• IOU

[1380]; from Old French oïl (1100), compound of o (affirmative particle) (compare Occitan òc (“yes”)) and il (“he”), akin to o-je (“I”), o-tu (“thou”), o nos (“we”), o vos (“you”), all ‘yes’ constructed with pronouns.[1] O and òc are both from Latin hoc (“this”). It may correspond to a Vulgar Latin construction *hoc ille. Compare Portuguese isso ‘yes, yeah’, literally ‘this, that’. And the semantic shift is calqued on Gaulish: Compare fellow Celtic languages such as Old Irish tó ‘yes’, Welsh do ‘indeed’, from Proto-Indo-European *tod (“this, that”).[2]

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /wi/

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• Homophones: ouï, ouïe, ouïes, ouïs, ouït

oui

1. yes

• non

oui

1. yes

This word is treated as if it has an aspirated h despite not being written with an h.

• non

• Maori: Wīwī (“France”)

• si ("yes" used to contradict a negative statement or question)

• “oui” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Old French oïl, a contraction of o il, from Vulgar Latin hoc ille.

oui

1. (Guernsey) yes

oui

1. (Guernsey) yes