tui

Borrowed from Maori tūī.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuːi/

tui (plural tuis)

1. A New Zealand honeyeater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae

• parson bird

• ITU, Tiu, UTI

tui

1. water

• Helga So-Hartmann, A descriptive grammar of Daai Chin (2009)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtu.iː/, [ˈtʊ.iː]

tuī

1. genitive singular of tū

tuī

1. masculine nominative plural of tuus
2. masculine genitive singular of tuus
3. neuter genitive singular of tuus
4. masculine vocative plural of tuus

tui

1. Nonstandard spelling of tuī.
2. Nonstandard spelling of tuí.
3. Nonstandard spelling of tuǐ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of tuì.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-t(w)əj ~ m-ti-s (“water”).

tui

1. water
2. any liquid

tui

1. to flow

tui

1. water

• Kosei Otsuka, A Basic Vocabulary and a Text of the Ralte Language (2016)

tui

1. sew

From Bengali.

tui

1. you (singular)

• IPA^(key): /twi/, [t̪wi]

tui m (plural tuis)

1. tweet (post of Twitter)

tui (ma class, no plural)

1. coconut milk

   tui la nazi

   coconut milk

tui

1. earache
2. otitis

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [tuj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [tuj˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [tuj˧˧]

tui

1. (colloquial, sometimes humorous, especially used among close friends along with ông or bà) Eye dialect spelling of tôi, representing Central Vietnam and Southern Vietnam Vietnamese.