hoi

Variant of hoy.

hoi

1. A call to gain someone's attention; hey!
   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 55:

     A hollow groan, unlike anything she had ever heard in her life, came from the front, followed by a shout of "Hoi, there!"

• hoi toider
• hoi polloi

Possibly a spontaneous alteration of the interjection ho. The use as a joyful exclamation is attested from the 16th century; use as an informal greeting appears only in the 20th century.

Another possibility is the borrowing from English ahoy or Middle English hoy; See also ahoi.

• Rhymes: -ɔi̯
• IPA^(key): /ɦɔi̯/

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hoi

1. (Netherlands, informal) A greeting acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence, comparable to English hey, hi

   Hoi, hoe gaat het? ― Hey, how's it going?

2. (Netherlands, informal) A farewell acknowledging someone's departure, comparable to English goodbye, bye

   Tot morgen. Hoi! ― See you tomorrow. Bye!

3. (dated) An exclamation of joy.

   Ik heb een tante in Marokko en die komt, hiep hoi!

   I have an aunt in Morocco and she's coming over, yippee yay!

• (hey): doei

• hoihoi

• hallo
• goedemorgen
• goede dag
• goedenavond

• hwɔ̃e

hoi

1. water

• Karl J. Franklin, Comparative Wordlist 1 of the Gulf District and adjacent areas (1975), page 67

Compare Estonian hoi, Ingrian hoi, Karelian hoi, Ludian hoi, and also Swedish hoj, Dutch hoi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhoi̯/, [ˈho̞i̯]
• Rhymes: -oi
• Syllabification^(key): hoi

hoi

1. ahoy, hey

   hoi te siellä!

   hey you there!

• hopoti hoi

• hio, iho, ohi, ohi-

hoi

1. salt deposit, salt lick

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hoi

1. (Southern German, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, South Tyrol) hi! an informal greeting acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence

   Hoi, wie geht's?

• hallo
• guten Morgen
• guten Tag
• guten Abend
• grüezi
• servus

hoi

1. (Gherdëina) A greeting acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence, comparable to English hey, hi

   Hoi, co vala pa?

   Hello, how's it going?

hoi (not comparable)

1. (Old Latin) here
   • 6th century BC, Tibur pedestal inscription (CIL I² 2658; image (page 18)):

     𐌇𐌏𐌉𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌌𐌉𐌕𐌀𐌕𐌊𐌀𐌖𐌉𐌏𐌔[…]𐌌𐌏𐌍𐌉𐌏𐌔𐌒𐌄𐌕𐌉𐌏𐌔𐌃[𐌏]𐌍𐌏𐌌𐌐𐌓𐌏𐌅𐌉𐌋𐌄𐌏𐌃

     HOIMEDMITATKAVIOS[…]MONIOSQETIOSD[O]NOMPROFILEOD
     Hoi mēd mitāt Kāvios […]monios Qetios d[ō]nom prō fileōd.

     Kavios […]monios Qetios places me here as a gift on behalf of his son.

hoi n

1. deep sea

hoi

1. (intransitive) go in
2. (transitive) put in

• oi

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *huy (“exclamation to express surprise, call to a friend, respond to a distant call, etc.”). Compare Cantonese 喂 (wai²) or Min Nan 喂 (oeh).

• IPA^(key): /hoi/

hoi (Jawi spelling هوي‎)

1. hey; interjection used to call out to people

   Hoi, apa kau buat tu?!

   Hey, what are you doing there?!

• “hoi” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

hoi

1. toneless rendering of hói
2. toneless rendering of hoí

Mura-Pirahã Dictionary

Possibly from English horse.

hoi

1. horse

• pepe hoi

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

hoi • (𦤠)

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   Synonym: hôi

• IPA^(key): /ˈhoi̯/

hoi

1. hi

• “hoi”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011