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dui

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dui"

English

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Noun

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dui

  1. (obsolete) plural of duo

Anagrams

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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dui

  1. man

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Corsican

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Corsican cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : dui
    Ordinal : secondu

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Numeral

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dui m (feminine duie)

  1. two

References

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

Fiji Hindi

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Etymology

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From Bhojpuri दुइ (dui).

Numeral

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dui

  1. two

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Istriot

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin duo.

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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dui

  1. two

Kalo Finnish Romani

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Kalo Finnish Romani numbers (edit)
20
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    Cardinal: dui
    Ordinal: vauro, duito

Etymology

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From Sanskrit द्व (dva), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *dwáH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dwáH, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Cognates include Hindi दो (do).

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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dui

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

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

Mandarin

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Romanization

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dui

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

Usage notes

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  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Old French

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Numeral

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dui

  1. nominative of deus
    • c. 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan, Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, page 194, line 2455:
      Li dui frere i furent ocis
      The two brothers were killed there

Rohingya

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Rohingya cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : dui

Etymology

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From Sanskrit द्व (dva, “two”).

Numeral

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dui (Hanifi spelling 𐴊𐴟𐴙)

  1. two

Sicilian

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Sicilian cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : dui
    Ordinal : secunnu

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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From Latin duae, feminine plural of duo.

Numeral

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dui

  1. two
    du cani ― two dogs
    Nni pigghiau dui. ― He/she took two (of them).

Southeastern Tepehuan

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Etymology

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

Noun

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dui

  1. plum

References

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  • 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)‎[2] (in Spanish), electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 53

Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV dui
Brazilian standard dui
New Tribes dui

Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *rui; compare Apalaí ryxi, rui, Kari'na yryi, yrui, Akawaio rui, Macushi rui, Pemon rui, Yao (South America) huoroye.

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Noun

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dui (obligatorily possessed; possessed dui)

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

Derived terms

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References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “dui”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[3], Lyon, page 115
  • 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, pages 62–65, 68: “dui”
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