vaj

vaj

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Sekele.

• vadge, vag

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vaj (plural vajes)

1. (slang, rare) The vagina.
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• JAV, jav

• vahj (Arbëresh)
• valë (Cham)
• voj (Gheg)

• Uncertain. Perhaps from the alternative, the interjection meaning 'woe', connecting the tears with oil. Another theory suggests the term vaj might have evolved from Old Albanian *vaīlë (compare the dialectal forms) and earlier *ewaila, becoming cognate with Ancient Greek *ἐλαίϝα (*elaíwa) and Old Armenian եւղ (ewł, “oil”) both, in turn, deriving from a Mediterranean substrate language.

• From Proto-Albanian *u̯ɔλa, from Vulgar Latin *oli̯u, from Latin oleum,[1] from Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion).

vaj m (indefinite plural vajra, definite singular vaji, definite plural vajrat)

1. oil

Possibly from Proto-Albanian *uai, from Proto-Indo-European *wáy, *uai (“woe!, alas!”); similar words are found in several European languages. Cognate to Ancient Greek ὀά (oá, “woe!, alas!”) and Old Armenian վայ (vay, “cry of pain”), Latin vae, Icelandic vei, Dutch wee, English woe. Compare also Romanian vai, Serbo-Croatian авај (avaj), Italian guai. In view of a widespread secondary meaning 'to cry', one may also consider Proto-Albanian *vabja, connected with Old Church Slavonic вабимо (vabimo, “being lured”), Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐍀𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wōpjan, “call out”), Old English wēpan (“weep, cry”).

vaj

1. woe!, alas!

• vajtoj
• kukuvajkë

vaj

1. red morning glory (Ipomoea coccinea)

• Engel, Ralph; Allhiser de Engel, Mary; Mateo Alvarez, José (1987) Diccionario zoque de Francisco León (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 30)‎ (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 218

From Proto-Ugric *wåjĭ, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *waje. Cognates include Mansi во̄й (vōj) and Finnish voi.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɒj]

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vaj (countable and uncountable, plural vajak)

1. butter

(Expressions):

• tejben-vajban füröszt

• (butter): vaj in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• ([dialectal] or): vaj in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• ([archaic; alternative form of vajh] I wonder): vaj in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• ([poetic; obsolete; alternative form of vajh] oh): vaj in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

vaj

1. or

Originally an older Stockholm pronunciation of varg (“wolf, defect product”), with loss of /r/ before /j/.

• IPA^(key): /vaj/
• Rhymes: -aj

vaj (indeclinable)

1. (colloquial) something wrong

• vajsing

• vaj in Svensk ordbok (SO)

• (Zinacantán) IPA^(key): /βäh/

vaj

1. tortilla

• kaxlan vaj

• “vah(3)” in Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.