tui

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tui"

English

WOTD – 6 February 2021

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori tūī.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtuːi/
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(New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈtʉːiː/

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Particularly: "New Zealand"

Rhymes: -uːi

Noun

tui (plural tui or tuis)

A species of honeyeater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, a bird which is endemic to New Zealand.
Synonyms: (both archaic) mockingbird, parson bird, (both obsolete) poë, poë-bird
- 1832, Augustus Earle, A Narrative of a Nine Months’ Residence in New Zealand, in 1827; , London: [A. & R. Spottiswoode] for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, , →OCLC, page 174:
  [A]ll was quiet, beautiful, and serene; the only sounds which broke the calm were the wild notes of the tooe (or New Zealand blackbird), the splashing of our own oars, or the occasional flight of a wild duck (or shag), disturbed by our approach.
  The Oxford English Dictionary indicates that this is the earliest occurrence of the word in English.
- 1863, Karl [von] Scherzer, “Auckland”, in Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, , volume III, London: Saunders, Otley, and Co., , →OCLC, page 159:
  The most frequently visible of these feathered denizens of the forest is the Tui (Prostemadera novæ Zelandiæ), called 'the parson' by Captain [James] Cook, in consequence of its having two white feathers in the lower part of its neck resembling bands. In colour and shape it is very like the kingfisher, and its melodious notes present great variety.
- 1884, R[obert] McCormick, chapter XVI, in Voyages of Discovery in the Arctic and Antarctic Seas, and Round the World: , volume II, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, , →OCLC, page 297:
  Mr. Charles Enderby showed us a New Zealand Tui, or parson-bird, in a glass case, which he had kept alive in England for two years.
- 1921, H[erbert] Guthrie-Smith, “The Future of Native Avifauna”, in Tutira: The Story of a New Zealand Sheep Station, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 216:
  The Pigeon (Carpophaga Novæ Zealandiæ) and Tui or Parson Bird (Prosthemadera Novæ Zealandiæ) are certain also to become rare birds. Elsewhere on the run food-supply and breeding accommodation alike will have been swept clear. A few pair of each will nevertheless maintain themselves in the gorges. The Tui will then as now haunt the homestead and shelter-belts when in mid-winter the eucalypts break into flower.
- a. 1973, Eileen Duggan, “ A Few New Zealand Roads”, in Peter Whiteford, editor, Selected Poems, Wellington: Victoria University Press, published 1994, →ISBN, page 107:
  But it was the Tui Marina end that lingers in the memory. It was haunted by tuis, great insolent Carusos, who would half throw a note and then break off in the middle in sheer delight at their own marvellousness or in sudden greed.
- 2011, Pat Willmer, “Pollination in Different Habitats”, in Pollination and Floral Ecology, Princeton, N.J., Woodstock, Oxfordshire: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, part IV (Floral Ecology), page 601, column 2:
  On these two large islands [New Zealand], the native biota lacks many angiosperm and insect groups found routinely elsewhere, and the native flowers (about 80% endemic) are strongly dominated by rather dull white generalist forms, with flies, small moths, and beetles visiting: there are just a few bee- and bird-pollinated examples (visited mainly by bellbirds and tuis), and no native butterfly flowers.

Translations

Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae

Afrikaans: toei
Chinese:
Mandarin: 圖伊鳥／图伊鸟 (túyīniǎo), 簇胸吸蜜鳥／簇胸吸蜜鸟 (cùxiōngxīmìniǎo)
Czech: tui zpěvný
Dutch: toei (nl)
French: méliphage tui (fr) m, tui cravate-frisée (fr) m
Japanese: エリマキミツスイ
Lithuanian: Naujosios Zelandijos tujus
Maori: tūī
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tuihonningeter

Nynorsk: tuihonningetar
Polish: kędziornik
Russian: туи (tui), новозеландский туи (novozelandskij tui), новозеландский туй (novozelandskij tuj)
Spanish: mielero tui
Welsh: aderyn y goler gron

References

^ “tui, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1915; “tui, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

I-tu, ITU, Tiu, UTI

Daai Chin

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-t(w)əj-n ~ m-ti-s (“water”). Cognate to S'gaw Karen ထံ (hṭee).

Noun

tui

water

References

Helga So-Hartmann, A descriptive grammar of Daai Chin (2009)

Fijian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

tui

king
principal chief

Greenlandic

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tui/

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

tui (plural tuit)

shoulder

Declension

Declension of tui

	singular	plural
absolutive	tui	tuit
ergative	tuip	tuit
allative	tuimut	tuinut
ablative	tuimit	tuinit
prosecutive	tuikkut	tuitigut
locative	tuimi	tuini
instrumental	tuimik	tuinik
equative	tuiitut	tuiitut

Etymology 2

From Danish due

Noun

tui (plural tuit)

pigeon

Declension

Declension of tui

	singular	plural
absolutive	tui	tuit
ergative	tuip	tuit
allative	tuimut	tuinut
ablative	tuimit	tuinit
prosecutive	tuikkut	tuitigut
locative	tuimi	tuini
instrumental	tuimik	tuinik
equative	tuiitut	tuiitut

Hokkien

For pronunciation and definitions of tui – see 堆 (“heap; pile; mound; heap; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 堆).

Hrangkhol

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-t(w)əj-n ~ m-ti-s (“water”). Cognate to S'gaw Karen ထံ (hṭee).

Noun

tui

water

References

Trisha Borgohain (2017), Hrangkhol Nam Chonga Irchuna Lekhabu: A Learner's Book on the Hrangkhol Language, p.86, Centre for Endangered Languages, Tezpur University

Khumi Chin

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *tuy, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *təy (“water”). Cognates include Mandarin 涕 (tì) and S'gaw Karen ထံ (hṭee).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tui̯˥/

Noun

tui

water

Derived terms

bäjungtui

References

K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin‎, Payap University, page 44

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtu.iː/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtu.i/,

Pronoun

tuī

genitive singular of tū

Adjective

tuī

inflection of tuus:
1. masculine nominative/vocative plural
2. masculine/neuter genitive singular

Mandarin

Romanization

tui

Nonstandard spelling of tuī.
Nonstandard spelling of tuí.
Nonstandard spelling of tuǐ.
Nonstandard spelling of tuì.

Usage notes

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.