gi

From Japanese 着 (gi, “clothing”); only used in combination, usually with the name of a martial art such as 柔道着 (jūdōgi, “judo uniform”) or 空手着 (karategi, “karate uniform”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡiː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophone: ghee

gi (plural gis or gi)

1. A martial arts uniform.
   • 1990, Thomas Pynchon, Vineland, Vintage, published 2000, page 108:

     By the time they got up to the reception building, there was a welcoming committee standing in the lamp-lined drive, all in black gi, headed by a tall, fit, scholarly-looking woman named Sister Rochelle […]

   • 2022 September 20, Danya Hajjaji, “‘Really nice guy’: Tom Hardy surprises competitors with entry and victory in martial arts contest”, in The Guardian‎:

     Attenders watched the Mad Max: Fury Road star, dressed in a blue gi, subdue his opponents and win all his matches. Hardy’s certificate of achievement was awarded to “Edward Hardy” – the actor’s real name.

• IG, Ig, ig

gi

1. Soft mutation of ki.

gi

1. at
2. in
3. on

gi

1. Soft mutation of ki.

From Hindi घी (ghī) or Urdu گھی‎ (ghī), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀖𑀺𑀤 (ghida), from Sanskrit घृत (ghṛtá). Cognate of English ghee.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡi]
• Hyphenation: gi

gi (first-person possessive giku, second-person possessive gimu, third-person possessive ginya)

1. (archaic, Hinduism) ghee.

   Synonyms: minyak sapi, minyak samin, cairan mentega

• “gi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

From Latin gē (the name of the letter G).

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒi/
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: gì

gi f (invariable)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter G.; gee

• (Latin-script letter names) lettera; a, bi, ci, di, e, effe, gi, acca, i, gei / i lunga, cappa, elle, emme, enne, o, pi, cu, erre, esse, ti, u, vu / vi, doppia vu, ics, ipsilon / i greca, zeta

gi

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぎ
2. Rōmaji transcription of ギ

• IPA^(key): /ɡi/

gi

1. Alternative form of ge

gi

1. turns the preceding word into a nominative

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎, Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Cognate with Hiw ga, and also with Proto-Polynesian *kawa, Tongan kava. From Proto-Oceanic *kawaʀ, doublet of *wakaʀ (“root”).

• IPA^(key): /ɣi/

gi

1. kava plant, Piper methysticum
2. kava, an intoxicating beverage made from the kava plant.

• p.526 of: Alexandre François (2010), Pragmatic demotion and clause dependency: On two atypical subordinating strategies in the Lo-Toga and Hiw (Torres, Vanuatu), in Isabelle Bril (ed.), Clause Linking and Clause Hierarchy (Studies in Language Companion Series 121), 499–548. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

• IPA^(key): /ɡi/
• Rhymes: -i

From Hindi घी (ghī) or Urdu گھی‎ (ghī), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀖𑀺𑀤 (ghida), from Sanskrit घृत (ghṛtá). Cognate of English ghee.

gi (Jawi spelling ݢي‎, plural gi-gi, informal 1st possessive giku, 2nd possessive gimu, 3rd possessive ginya)

1. (archaic) ghee.

   Synonym: minyak sapi

Clipping of pergi.

gi (Jawi spelling ݢي‎)

1. (colloquial) Alternative form of pergi

   Kau gi ngan siapa?

   Who are you going with?

• “gi” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

gi

1. I, me (first-person singular pronoun)

   Gi zil Yahudiya, tayyà gi à Tarsus uwana la Səlisəya, gi bəzi huɗ gudəŋ məŋga gà (Sləray 21:39).[1]

   I [am] a Jewish man, I was born in Tarsus which [is] in Cilicia, I [am] a man from an important city (Acts 21:39)

   Dagay lakana kadànəŋaw gi aya tsəràh à uwana (Mata 23:39).[2]

   For I tell you, you will never see me from now on until you say (Mathhew 23:39)

From Old Dutch gī, from Proto-West Germanic *jiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *jūz.

• IPA^(key): /ɣiː/, /ɣi/

gi

1. you (nominative, plural)
2. you (nominative, singular, informal)

This pronoun began to replace the old singular form du during the Middle Dutch period, eventually replacing it altogether.

• ji

• Dutch: gij, jij
  • Afrikaans: jy
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: ju
  • Jersey Dutch: jāi
  • Negerhollands: joe, ju
  • Petjo: jij
• Limburgish: geer

• “ghi”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “gi”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

• gê, î, y, ie, jê

From Old Saxon gī, from Proto-Germanic *jūz.

• IPA^(key): /ʝiː/

gî

1. you, ye (nominative, plural)

• Low German: ji, jie
  • Plautdietsch: jie

From Old Norse gefa, from Proto-Germanic *gebaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰab(ʰ)-.

• IPA^(key): /jiː/

• gi

  (file)

gi (imperative gi, present tense gir, passive gis, simple past ga or gav, past participle gitt)

1. to give (transfer the possession of something to someone else)

• “gi” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

gi (present tense gir, past tense gav, past participle gitt, passive infinitive givast, present participle givande, imperative gi)

1. Alternative form of gje

• IPA^(key): /ɡí/

gí

1. to eat
2. to devour; to gnaw

• IPA^(key): /ɡí/

gí

1. to wear out

• IPA^(key): /ɡí/

gí

1. to stand

   Synonym: gíkinni

From Proto-West Germanic *jiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *jūz.

gī

1. you (plural)

• *gir (South-eastern)

• Middle Dutch: gi
  • Dutch: gij, jij
    • Afrikaans: jy
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: ju
    • Jersey Dutch: jāi
    • Negerhollands: joe, ju
    • Petjo: jij
  • Limburgish: geer

• “gi, ir”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

• IPA^(key): /jiː/

ġī

1. Alternative form of ġēa

From Proto-West Germanic *jiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *jūz. Accusative and dative from Proto-Germanic *iwwiz, variant of *izwiz.

gī

1. you (plural)

• Middle Low German: gî, gê, î, y, ie, jê
  • Low German: ji, jie
    • Plautdietsch: jie

• vgi

• IPA^(key): /ki˧/

gi

1. dog.

• di (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader)
• de (Surmiran)

From Latin diēs.

gi m (plural gis)

1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) day

From English give.

• IPA^(key): /ɡi/, /d͡ʒi/

gi

1. to give

gi

1. to (indicates indirect object)

gi

1. Romanization of 𒄀 (gi)

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zi˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [jɪj˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [jɪj˧˧]

Borrowed from Italian gi.

gi

1. The name of the Latin-script digraph GI/Gi/gi.

• If gi represents the sound /z/ or /j/ before an i, that i is entirely merged with the gi. For example, use gì, gỉ, giết, not *giì, *giỉ, *giiết.

Borrowed from French ji.

gi

1. The name of the Latin-script letter J.

• ri

gi m

1. Soft mutation of ci.

IPA^(key): /ɡí/

gí

1. The name of the Latin-script letter G.

• (Latin-script letter names) lẹ́tà; á, bí, dí, é, ẹ́, fí, gí, gbì, hí, í, jí, kí, lí, mí, ní, ó, ọ́, pí, rí, sí, ṣí, tí, ú, wí, yí