vili

Aiwoo

Numeral

vili

1. five

References

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Participle

vili

1. animate masculine plural past active participle of vít

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vilja, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European . See Finnish vilja (“grain, cereal”).

Noun

vili (genitive vilja, partitive vilja)

1. fruit

Declension

Derived terms

• köögivili (“vegetable”)
• puuvili

Fijian

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic (compare with Samoan fili and filifili plus Maori whiri (“to choose”)), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *piliq (compare with Malay pilih, Tagalog pili and pumili, Malagasy fidy), from Proto-Austronesian *piliq.

Verb

vili (vilika)

1. to pick, to gather

References

Further reading

• Gatty, Ronald (2009) “vili, vilika”, in Fijian-English Dictionary, Suva, Fiji: Ronald Gatty, →ISBN, page 300

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: vi‧li
• Rhymes: -li

Etymology 1

Clipping and -i diminutive of villamos (“tram”).

Alternative forms

• villi

Noun

vili (plural vilik)

1. (informal) tram

   Synonym: villamos

Declension

Etymology 2

Clipping and -i diminutive of világos (“clear”).

Adjective

vili (not generally comparable, comparative vilibb, superlative legvilibb)

1. (informal) clear (free of ambiguity or doubt)

   Synonyms: világos, érthető

Declension

Further reading

• (both senses): vili in Pusztai, Ferenc (ed.). Magyar értelmező kéziszótár (’A Concise Explanatory Dictionary of Hungarian’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2003. 2nd, expanded and revised edition. →ISBN

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.li/
• Rhymes: -ili
• Hyphenation: vì‧li

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

vili

1. plural of vile

Noun

vili m or f

1. plural of vile

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

vili

1. masculine plural of vilio

Jamtish

Etymology

From Old Norse vilja (“to want”), from Proto-Germanic *wiljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

  Rhymes: -ɪ̀ːlɪ

Verb

vili

1. (with accusative) to want, wish, would like

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯iː.liː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.li/,

Adjective

vīlī

1. dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of vīlis

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wiljô, whence also Old English willa, Old High German willa.

Noun

vili m (genitive vilja, plural viljar)

1. will
2. (poetic) joy, delight
3. carnal lust

Declension

Derived terms

• viljalauss (“joyless”)

Related terms

• vilja (“to want”)

Descendants

• Icelandic: vilji m
• Faroese: vilji m
• Norwegian Bokmål: vilje m
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vilje m, vile m (nonstandard, dialectal)
• Jamtish: vili m
• Elfdalian: wile m
• Old Swedish: vili m, vilie m, vilia f
  • Swedish: vilja f, vilje
    • → Elfdalian: wila f
• Old Danish: vilje, vilge, vilgie
  • Danish: vilje
• Gutnish: vilä m

References

• “vili”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Verb

vili

1. third-person singular/plural present active subjunctive of vilja

Serbo-Croatian

Participle

vili (Cyrillic spelling вили)

1. masculine plural active past participle of viti

Tokelauan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: vi‧li

Etymology 1

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *wiliwili. Cognates include Emae viriviri and Wallisian vili.

Verb

vili (plural fetuli or fētutuli or taufetuli)

1. (intransitive) to run; to hurry
2. (intransitive) to escape; to run away

Usage notes

• While the sense "to run, hurry" uses all three plurals, the sense "to escape, run away" only uses the plurals fetuli and fētutuli.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Polynesian *wili. Cognates include Hawaiian wili and Samoan vili.

Noun

vili

1. eddy, swirl

Verb

vili (plural tavili)

1. (intransitive) to spin; to whirl
2. (transitive) to drill; to bore
3. (transitive) to telephone
4. (transitive) to be in severe pain from

Etymology 3

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *wili. Cognates include Tuvaluan vili and Samoan vili.

Noun

vili

1. lot (used to determine a question by chance)

Etymology 4

From Proto-Polynesian *wili. Cognates include Tongan vili and Samoan vili.

Verb

vili

1. (transitive) to aim for

References

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎, Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 433