vai

Noun

 * : an intransitive verb that agrees with an animate subject.

Etymology 2
.

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) water clear liquid H₂O

Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬.

Adverb

 * 1) today

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) water clear liquid H₂O

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) water clear liquid H₂O

Etymology
From Proto-Central Pacific *vai, from, from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from.

Noun

 * 1) ray marine fish with a flat body, large wing-like fins, and a whip-like tail

Etymology
From. Probably ultimately from the same root as, possibly by analogy with.

Conjunction

 * 1)  or exclusive or; either what comes before or what comes after

Usage notes

 * While it is often said that is to be used in affirmative clauses and  is to be used in question clauses, a more precise difference is that  is an inclusive or, while  is an exclusive or. For instance, while  and  are both correct, the former asks in a yes or no question, whether you ate either bread or fruit or not, while the latter asks which you ate, the bread or the fruit.

Adverb

 * 1)  is that so?

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) water clear liquid H₂O

Etymology
From (See .) Usurped expected ed or í, from īt, third person singular of

Adjective

 * 1) ugly, unsightly
 * 2) bad, evil, unpleasant

Inflection

 * chevai
 * ndevai
 * ivai
 * ñandevai
 * orevai
 * pendevai
 * ivai

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Conjunction

 * 1) or

Etymology 1
Borrowed from or dialectal ; compare other 🇨🇬 languages (🇨🇬, Standard 🇨🇬). First found occasionally in Latvian writings in the 17th century, initially as a conjunction, then as a particle, it became more frequent in the 18th century; but only in the 19th century did it really strike root in the language. Likely unrelated to.

Conjunction

 * 1) ; or in the either-or sense, not in the sense of a.k.a., which is.
 * 2) ; or, or else...
 * vai tas kāds noziegums, kauns, vai? — is this a crime, a shame, or what?
 * 1) ; whether, if
 * vai tas kāds noziegums, kauns, vai? — is this a crime, a shame, or what?
 * 1) ; whether, if
 * 1) ; whether, if
 * 1) ; whether, if

Etymology 2
From. Cognates include 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Pronunciation
,, (depending on situational intonation)

Interjection

 * 1) used to express emotional responses: excitement, surprise, pain, fear, sorrow, irritation, etc.

Etymology
From.

Conjunction

 * 1) or
 * 2) if
 * 1) if
 * 1) if

Adverb

 * 1) only

Etymology
From.

Conjunction

 * 1) or

Etymology
From, from , and also the third-person singular present indicative inflection of. Sense 2 is a.

Verb

 * 1) to go
 * 2)  to go in order to do something
 * 1)  to go in order to do something
 * 1)  to go in order to do something

Usage notes

 * Sense 2 is especially common when Macanese write using Cantonese-influenced syntax.

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) water clear liquid H₂O

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) water clear liquid H₂O

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) water clear liquid H₂O

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) water

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) water clear liquid H₂O

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Conjunction

 * 1) or in questions, for mutually exclusive possibilities
 * 2) so that

Noun

 * 1) water

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) water clear liquid H₂O

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) water clear liquid H₂O

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) water clear liquid H₂O

Noun

 * 1) water

Etymology
, from,. Cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) water clear liquid H₂O

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) water clear liquid H₂O

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) water clear liquid H₂O

Etymology
Probably an expressive creation. Similar words are found in many other languages, especially Indo-European. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Interjection

 * 1) alas, woe

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) water clear liquid H₂O
 * 2) crake

Etymology 1
Perhaps from. Alternatively from, from the verse in Revelation 8:13. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) troubles, problems, hardship, misfortune
 * 2)  trouble, difficulty, mess, pickle, fix, woe, jam

Etymology 2
Derived from. More at 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) water

Noun

 * 1) water

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) water clear liquid H₂O

Etymology 2
Compare 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1) who

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) water clear liquid H₂O

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) water clear liquid H₂O

Etymology
From. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) water
 * 2) vessel for water
 * 3) medicine

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) water clear liquid H₂O

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) water clear liquid H₂O
 * 2) lake

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to weave

Etymology
From.

Conjunction

 * 1) or

Etymology
Attested as, in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651), a dictionary based chiefly on the Northern dialects.

Attested in Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經) as (modern SV:  ).

Compare 🇨🇬 (whence 🇨🇬).

Some North Central dialects have the form with unlenited ‹b› (vs. standard form with lenited ‹v›) and ‹-n› reflex of earlier.

Noun

 * 1)  a shoulder
 * 2)  a role; a part

Etymology
From.

Conjunction

 * 1) or

Interjection

 * 1) oh, (so)... mainly to start interrogative clauses