jai

jai

1. festival

• jai alai - English name of pilota, pelota

jai m/f pl

1. (third-person plural masculine and feminine pronoun, oblique case) them

• jali, jale
• joi (masc singular), joe (fem singular)
• jal, jala

jai

1. Romanization of 𐌾𐌰𐌹

• jàyí (Benin)

From jẹ̀ (“to fall”) +‎ aí (“ground”), literally “to fall on the ground”. Cognates include Fon jàyǐ, Saxwe Gbe jɛ̀ nyì, Adja jè anyi, Ewe dze anyí

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒà.jí/

jàí (Nigeria)

1. to fall

From Proto-Malayic *jahət.

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒaeʔ/

jai

1. bad, evil
2. broken

jai 

1. Alternative form of jae (“chicken”)

jai f

1. (third-person singular) dative form of ji.

• IPA^(key): [hʷaj]

jai (possessed jaichü)

1. older sister
2. older female parallel cousin

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “jai”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
• Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 62–65, 73

jai

1. grass, turf
2. woods

jai

1. Alternative form of jay

• IPA^(key): [ˈhai̯]

jai

1. already

• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎, Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis)

From Late Latin gaius (“jay”), or a variant of gai (“joyous, cheerful”).

jai m (oblique plural jais, nominative singular jais, nominative plural jai)

1. jay (bird)

• French: geai
• Norman: geai
• → Middle English: jay, jai, gaye, jey
  • English: jay
  • Scots: jay