toi

toi

1. penis

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

toi

1. first-person singular present indicative of tar

From Latin tū.

toi

1. (second-person singular pronoun, oblique case) you, thee

• te

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoi̯/,
• Rhymes: -oi
• Hyphenation^(key): toi

From Proto-Finnic *too. -i is probably from the plural form noi.

toi (colloquial)

1. Synonym of tuo (“that”).

• Not used in written text, except within quotations.

This word could be considered to belong to declension type 19 (suo), except that the singular and plural forms come from different sources, so the declension can be called irregular. The forms in brackets are never or very rarely used.

• “toi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

toi

1. third-person singular past indicative of tuoda

• toé (Quebec, colloquial)

Inherited from Middle French toi, tei, from Old French tei, te, from Latin tē.

• IPA^(key): /twa/
• (Quebec, informal) IPA^(key): /twe/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: toit, toits, toua, touas, touât

toi

1. you (informal second-person singular personal pronoun)

   J’ai besoin de toi. ― I need you

   Et toi, ça va comment ?

   And you, how are you?

   Souviens-toi de ce qui est vraiment important.

   Remember what is really important.

   Attends, tu m’as dit qu’il y a dans cette maison plus de deux-cents livres. Est-ce qu’ils sont tous à toi ?

   Wait, you told me that there are more than two hundred books in this house. Are they all yours?

   Toi, t’es quelque chose de différent.

   You are something different.

   • Psalm 71:5:

     Car tu es mon espérance, Seigneur Éternel! En toi je me confie dès ma jeunesse.

     For you are my hope, Eternal Lord! In you I entrust myself since my youth.

   • 1996, Herman Melville, translated by Lucien Jacques, Joan Smith, and Jean Giono, Moby Dick, Gallimard, →ISBN, page 722:

     Oh, Achab, cria Starbuck, il n’est pas trop tard, même maintenant, le troisième jour, pour renoncer. Vois, Moby Dick ne te cherche pas. C’est toi, toi qui la cherches follement.

     "Oh, Ahab," cried Starbuck, "it's not too late, even now, on the third day, to give up. See, Moby Dick isn't looking for you. It is you, you who seeks her madly."

• tézigue (argot)

• après toi

• “toi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• oit

toi

1. (archaic) second-person singular present indicative of togliere

• togli

to'

• -ito, tio-

toi

1. Rōmaji transcription of とい

toi

1. Alternative form of toy

From Assamese তই (toi)

toi (plural tohot)

1. (singular; very familiar, inferior) you

• tei (Anglo-Norman)
• toy (Anglo-Norman or late Old French)

toi

1. you

• Similar in terms of usage to modern French toi except it may be used as a personal object pronoun where modern French would use te

  Ore ai aperte occasion De toi querre une question (modern French uses te poser une question).

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طوی (toy).

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -oj

toi n (plural toiuri)

1. (in the singular, of an action or event) the culminating point
2. (colloquial) center, heart
3. scuffle, struggle, scramble
4. (uncountable) a flock of birds

• toi in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

From Samoan toʻi.

toi

1. axe

• matau

• Peter, Mühlhäusler (1983) “Samoan Plantation Pidgin English and the origin of New Guinea Pidgin”, in Ellen Woolford and William Washabaugh, editors, The Social Context of Creolization, Ann Arbor: Karoma, pages 28-76

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoi/

toi

1. masculine/feminine plural of tóiu

toi

1. masculine/feminine plural of tóiu

From toda +‎ -i.

toi

1. supplier, provider
2. caterer

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “поставщик”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 災 (“disaster”, SV: tai).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key):
• (Huế) IPA^(key):
• (Saigon) IPA^(key):

toi • (𡳥, 𣩸, 𤻒, 𬆜)

1. (of domestic animals) to die in epidemic
2. (colloquial) to die
3. (colloquial, of money, efforts, etc.) to be lost; to go to waste

• IPA^(key): /ˈt̪o.i/

toi

1. if

   Synonyms: coba, kalau

   toi ipongi, ma tasagal yo ― if it rains, then I won't go

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics