dui

dui

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dui"

English

Noun

dui

1. (obsolete) plural of duo

Anagrams

• Diu, IDU, IUD, UDI, UID, Udi, udi-, uid

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Big Nambas

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈⁿdui/

Noun

dui

1. man

References

• Big Nambas Grammar Pacific Linguistics - G.J. Fox

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Corsican

Corsican cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : dui     Ordinal : secondu

Etymology

From Latin duo, from Proto-Italic *duō, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Cognates include Italian due and Romanian doi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdui/
• Hyphenation: du‧i

Numeral

dui m (feminine duie)

1. two

References

• “dui, duie” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

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Fiji Hindi

Etymology

From Bhojpuri दुइ (dui).

Numeral

dui

1. two

References

• Fiji Hindi Dictionary
• Siegel, Jeff (1977) Say it in Fiji Hindi, Australia: Pacific Publications, →ISBN, page 28

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Istriot

Alternative forms

• duj

Etymology

From Latin duo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duj/

Numeral

dui

1. two

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Kalo Finnish Romani

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Cardinal: dui     Ordinal: vauro, duito

Etymology

Inherited from Romani duj.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdui̯/

Numeral

dui

1. (cardinal numbers) two[1][2]

References

1. “duj” in Finnish Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.
2. Kimmo Granqvist (2011), “Numeraalit [Numerals]”, in Lyhyt Suomen romanikielen kielioppi [Consice grammar of Finnish Romani]‎ (in Finnish), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland, →ISBN, ISSN 1796-041X, retrieved February 19, 2022, page 86

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Mandarin

Romanization

dui

1. Nonstandard spelling of duī.
2. Nonstandard spelling of duǐ.
3. Nonstandard spelling of duì.

Usage notes

• 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.

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Maquiritari

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [duj]

Noun

dui (possessed dui)

1. older brother (of a man)
2. older male parallel cousin (of a man)

Derived terms

• duichö

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “dui”, 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, 68

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Old French

Numeral

dui

1. nominative of deus
   • circa 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan, page 194 (of the Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, line 2455:

     Li dui frere i furent ocis

     The two brothers were killed there

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Rohingya

Rohingya cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : dui

Etymology

From Sanskrit द्व (dva, “two”).

Numeral

dui (Hanifi spelling 𐴊𐴟𐴙)

1. two

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Sicilian

Sicilian cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : dui     Ordinal : secunnu

Alternative forms

• du (before a noun)
• rui, ru (forms with rotacism)

Etymology

From Latin duae, feminine plural of duo.

Numeral

dui

1. two

   du cani ― two dogs

   Nni pigghiau dui. ― He/she took two (of them).

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Southeastern Tepehuan

Etymology

Cognate with O'odham jui (“a type of prickly pear”).

Noun

dui

1. plum

References

• R. de Willett, Elizabeth, et al. (2016) Diccionario tepehuano de Santa María Ocotán, Durango (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 48)‎ (in Spanish), electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 53