foki
English
Etymology
From Cantonese 夥記 (fo2 gei3).
Pronunciation
- (Hong Kong) IPA(key): /fɔki/
Noun
foki (plural fokis)
- (Hong Kong, obsolete) staff; waiter
- 1894 November 28, “The Winglok Street Outrage”, in Hongkong Telegraph, page 2:
- One of them took him by the queue and tied him to his fokis, while the other pointed a revolver at him and told him to keep quiet.
- 1905 January 30, Hongkong Telegraph, page 4:
- FOR impersonating an emigrant before the Harbour Master, a foki in an immigration boarding-house at 291 Des Vœux Road, West, was to-day fined $100 and the accountant, and another foki for aiding and abetting, $50 and $25 respectively.
- 1905 August 30, “Fokis Fight”, in China Mail, page 4:
- Something resembling a free fight occurred in Wing Lok Street last evening between the fokis employed at Nos 156 and 160.
- 1918, South China Morning Post:
- A CHINESE man who had left a note at the scene of his crime pleaded guilty to stealing a quantity of clothing from five fokis. He was caught after he left a note, signed by himself, with his victims. He was sentenced to six weeks in prison.
- 1946 June 9, Hongkong Telegraph:
- Cheung said that Gore, apparently under the influence of liquor, went to the Sun Sung Oot Cafe, Hennessy Road, and insisted on buying a piece of raw beef hung in the shop. Cheung, a foki, told him raw meat could not be sold and Gore threw the meat in his face.
- 1946 September 5, Hongkong Telegraph:
- The company's representative pleaded the offence was unintentional as owing to holidays and busy hours the fokis was not informed of the ceiling price of that brand.
- 1961 December 21, “Foki charged with giving false information”, in China Mail, page 12:
- Police charged this morning that a shop foki had spent $28,000 he told them had been stolen from him
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- (Hong Kong, obsolete) coworker
References
- Patrick J. Cummings, Hans-Georg Wolf (2011) A Dictionary of Hong Kong English: Words from the Fragrant Harbor, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 58
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈfoki]
- Hyphenation: fo‧ki
- Rhymes: -ki
Etymology 1
fok (“degree; grade; cape”) + -i (adjective-forming suffix)
Adjective
foki (not comparable)
- relating to (……) cape
- Zöld-foki Köztársaság ― Republic of Cabo Verde (literally, “Republic of/at Green Cape”)
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | foki | fokiak |
| accusative | fokit | fokiakat |
| dative | fokinak | fokiaknak |
| instrumental | fokival | fokiakkal |
| causal-final | fokiért | fokiakért |
| translative | fokivá | fokiakká |
| terminative | fokiig | fokiakig |
| essive-formal | fokiként | fokiakként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | fokiban | fokiakban |
| superessive | fokin | fokiakon |
| adessive | fokinál | fokiaknál |
| illative | fokiba | fokiakba |
| sublative | fokira | fokiakra |
| allative | fokihoz | fokiakhoz |
| elative | fokiból | fokiakból |
| delative | fokiról | fokiakról |
| ablative | fokitól | fokiaktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular | fokié | fokiaké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural | fokiéi | fokiakéi |
Related terms
- fokos
Etymology 2
foka (“[the] cape of ……”) + -i (adjective-forming suffix), dropping the possessive suffix -a.
Adjective
foki (not comparable)
- at, by, or relating to (the) cape of ……
- Jóreménység foki hajóút (from Jóreménység foka) ― a cruise at Cape of Good Hope
Usage notes
It is one of the few cases in Hungarian orthography when the deletion of the possessive suffix does not entail writing the resulting phrase in solid (in one word, as a compound) as a result of elision, as opposed to the regular case when e.g. the deletion of -e in [az] ablak üvege (“[the] pane of [the] window”) results in ablaküveg (“windowpane”).[1] These exceptions involve the adjective-forming suffix -i and they include (belseje →) belseji, (eleje →) eleji, (kora →) kori (or regular korabeli), (vége →) végi, as well as geographical adjectives like (foka →) foki, (környéke →) környéki, (köze →) közi, (melléke →) melléki, (mente →) menti, and (vidéke →) vidéki.[2] Most of these words may also have a meaning without an implicit possessive sense.
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | foki | fokiak |
| accusative | fokit | fokiakat |
| dative | fokinak | fokiaknak |
| instrumental | fokival | fokiakkal |
| causal-final | fokiért | fokiakért |
| translative | fokivá | fokiakká |
| terminative | fokiig | fokiakig |
| essive-formal | fokiként | fokiakként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | fokiban | fokiakban |
| superessive | fokin | fokiakon |
| adessive | fokinál | fokiaknál |
| illative | fokiba | fokiakba |
| sublative | fokira | fokiakra |
| allative | fokihoz | fokiakhoz |
| elative | fokiból | fokiakból |
| delative | fokiról | fokiakról |
| ablative | fokitól | fokiaktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular | fokié | fokiaké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural | fokiéi | fokiakéi |
References
- Section 95 and Section 110 in A magyar helyesírás szabályai, 12. kiadás (’The Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2015. →ISBN
- Section 183 in A magyar helyesírás szabályai, 12. kiadás (’The Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2015. →ISBN
Icelandic
Etymology
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
foki
- indefinite dative singular of fok
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
foki m
- (non-standard since 1984) indefinite plural of fokus
Norwegian Nynorsk
Participle
foki
- (non-standard since 2012) feminine of foken
- (non-standard since 2012) neuter of foken
Verb
foki
- (non-standard since 2012) supine of fyka and fyke
Noun
foki n
- (non-standard since 2012) definite plural of fok
Old Norse
Noun
foki
- dative singular indefinite of fok n
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɔ.ki/
- Rhymes: -ɔki
- Syllabification: fo‧ki
Noun
foki
- inflection of foka:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural