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From Latin vōs, from Proto-Italic *wōs. Compare Romanian voi.

voi

1. (second-person plural pronoun, nominative form) you (plural), you all (group being addressed)

voi

1. (long/stressed accusative form) you (group being addressed)

• voauã
• vã / vi

• tu, tini / tine
• el / elu, nãs / nes
• noi
• voi
• nãsh, elj / ei, nesh

From Vulgar Latin voleō, from Latin volō.

• voiu

voi first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative va, past participle vrutã)

1. to want
2. to love

• vreari / vreare
• vrut / vrutã
• nivrut / nivrutã

voi

1. first-person singular present indicative of dir

• vui

From Middle High German vol, from Old High German foll, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós. Cognates include German voll, Low German vull, Dutch vol, English full, Danish fuld, Swedish full.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfoe/

voi (comparative voller, superlative voistn)

1. full, filled
2. drunk

voi

1. fully
2. very, quite, really

From Old French veoir, from Latin videre, present active infinitive of video.

voi

1. to see

   Les houmes n'aiveint de lote vie jaimois voizu teis princes que ceus-lai tant ai sont vaillants et porfaits

   The men had never seen such vaillant and perfect princes as those

• voizous

• voscu, vo

From Latin vos, from Old Latin vos, from Proto-Italic *wōs. Cognates include Italian voi and Romanian voi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔj/

voi

1. ye, you (plural)

• “voi, vo, voscu” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

From Latin vōs. Compare Italian voi, Romanian voi, French vous.

• IPA^(key): /βoi/

voi

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

• vu

From Proto-Finnic *voi, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *waje.^[1] Cognates include Estonian või, Northern Sami vuodja, Erzya ой (oj), Moksha вай (vaj) and Hungarian vaj.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋoi̯/, [ˈʋo̞i̯]
• Rhymes: -oi
• Syllabification^(key): voi

voi

1. butter

   voi on aina voita (Valio advertising slogan used for many decades) ― butter is always butter

• “1. voi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (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

From Proto-Finnic *voi (compare Ingrian voi, Karelian voi, Livonian võih, Ludian voi, Veps voi).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋoi̯/, [ˈʋo̞i̯]
• Rhymes: -oi
• Syllabification^(key): voi

voi

1. oh, bloody, damn, too (used as intensifier before expletives, mild and vulgar alike)

   Alternative form: voe (dialectal)

   Voi ei! ― Oh no!

   Voi hyvä Luoja! ― Oh my God!

   Voi helvetti! ― Bloody hell! / Damn it! / Dammit!

   Voi vittu! / Voi perkele! / Voi saatana! ― Oh fuck! / Fuck! / Fuck it!

   Voi hitto! / Voi hurja! ― Buggers!

   Voi kiesus! ― Jesus!

   Voi sentään! ― Too bad!

2. poor (used to express sympathy)

   Voi sinua! ― Poor you!

• vaiva

• “2. voi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋoi̯/, [ˈʋo̞i̯]
• Rhymes: -oi
• Syllabification^(key): voi

voi

1. third-person singular indicative present of voida

   Hän voi auttaa.

   S/he can help.

2. third-person singular indicative past of voida

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋoi̯ˣ/, [ˈʋo̞i̯(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -oi
• Syllabification^(key): voi

voi

1. indicative present connegative of voida

   En voi auttaa.

   I cannot help.

2. second-person singular imperative present of voida

3. second-person singular imperative present connegative of voida

   Älä voi hyvin!

   Don't be/do well!

• ovi

From Proto-Finnic *voi. Cognates include Finnish voi and Estonian või.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈʋoi̯/, [ˈʋo̞i̯]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈʋoi̯/, [ˈʋo̞i̯]
• Rhymes: -oi̯
• Hyphenation: voi

voi

1. butter
2. oil

   • 1937, V. A. Tetjurev, translated by N. J. Molotsova, Loonnontiito oppikirja alkușkoulua vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 16:

     Näijen kasvoin seemenist, niku i podsolnuhast, puserrettaa voita.

     From the seeds of these plants, just like from sunflowers, oil is pressed.

From Proto-Finnic *voi. Cognates include Finnish voi and Estonian voi.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈʋoi̯/, [ˈʋo̞i̯]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈʋoi̯/, [ˈʋo̞i̯]
• Rhymes: -oi̯
• Hyphenation: voi

voi

1. oh, woe

   ai voi ― oh-oh

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈʋoi̯/, [ˈʋo̞i̯]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈʋoi̯/, [ˈʋo̞i̯]
• Rhymes: -oi̯
• Hyphenation: voi

voi

1. inflection of voija:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. third-person singular indicative past
   3. second-person singular imperative
   4. second-person singular imperative connegative

• Fedor Tumansky (1790) “вой”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 697
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 675

From Latin vōs, from Old Latin vōs, from Proto-Italic *wōs, ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *yū́.

Cognates with the same usage are the French vous and the Russian вы (vy).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvoj/^[1]
• Rhymes: -oj
• Hyphenation: vói

voi

1. you (second person plural)

• voialtri, voi altri
• vostro
• vi

• -ivo, Ivo, Vio, ovi-

Borrowed from Livonian vȯi. Akin to Latvian vai.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɔ̀i̯]
• Hyphenation: voi

voi

1. or

voi

1. Used to form polar questions.

• (particle): ci

• Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN
• A. Andronov, L. Leikuma (2008) Latgalīšu-Latvīšu-Krīvu sarunu vuordineica, Lvava, →ISBN, page 13

From Proto-Finnic *voi.

voi

1. butter

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

From Vulgar Latin voleō, from Latin volō.^[1] Compare Aromanian voi, Romanian vrea, voi.

voi

1. I want.

• vreari / vreare / vręri / vreri

• Atasanov, Petar (1990) Le mégléno-roumain de nos jours: Une approche linguistique, Hamburg: Buske

From Proto-Vietic *-vɔːj.

• (Đông Kinh) [wɔj^A1]

voi (㺔, 𤠅, 𤢇)

1. (zoology) elephant

   voi dữ ― wild elephant

   vòi voi ― elephant trunk

   Voi mẹp.

   The elephant lies down (to allow a human to mount).

   bành voi ― an elephant's howdah

   Voi thăóc (kêu, róu᷄).

   The elephant trumpets.

• quan voi

• Vietnamese: voi

• Alexandre de Rhodes (1651) “voi”, in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (in Middle Vietnamese, Latin, and Portuguese), Rome: Propaganda Fide

• IPA^(key): /vuj/

voi

1. you (second person plural)

• vojàutri

• IPA^(key): [voj]
• Rhymes: -oj

Inherited from Latin vōs, from Old Latin vōs, from Proto-Italic *wōs.

voi

1. (nominative form) you (group being addressed)

   Synonym: (polite form) dumneavoastră

voi (stressed accusative form of voi)

1. (direct object, preceded by preposition, such as "pe", "cu", "la" or "pentru") you (group being addressed)

Formed on the basis of voi, the variant first person singular of vrea (normally vreau), possibly from Vulgar Latin voleō for Latin volō. Compare Aromanian voi.

See also further information at va.

(eu) voi (modal auxiliary, first-person singular form of vrea, used with infinitives to form future indicative tenses)

1. (I) will

As a modal auxiliary, voi and its other forms are used with the infinitive forms of verbs.

• Voi mânca când vreau.

  I will eat when I want to.

• Crezi tu că vor veni?

  Do you think they will come?

Unknown. Possibly from voie and influenced by the above and vrea (compare variant vroi). Compare Slavic voliti.

• IPA^(key): [voˈi]

a voi (third-person singular present voiește, past participle voit) 4th conj.

1. to want

   Synonym: vrea

2. to want to, intend, be inclined to

   Synonym: intenționa

• voință

From Latin vōs, from Proto-Italic *wōs, from the oblique forms of Proto-Indo-European *yū́.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvoi/

voi

1. you (plural)

   • c. 19^th century, anonymous author, “[untitled song]”, in Giovanni Spano, editor, Canti popolari in dialetto sassarese‎^[4], volume 1 (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Cagliari, published 1873, song 2, page 63:

     Mireddi s’in calch’ iltanti
     Edda si moltra affannadda,
     Oppuru appassionadda
     Sulpira par altr’ amanti,
     Mireddi si calchi iltanti
     Ha di voi cumpassioni.

     [Mireddi s’in calch’ isthanti
     Edda si mosthra affannadda,
     Oppuru appassionadda
     Suippira par althr’ amanti,
     Mireddi si calchi isthanti
     Ha di voi cumpassioni.]

     Look if, sometimes, she seems tired; or [if] she passionately sighs for other lovers. Look if, sometimes, she pities you.

     (literally, “Look if in some instants she appears tired, or passionate sighs for other lovers, look if [in] some instants [she] has of you compassion.”)

• vosthru

• vi

• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

From Vulgar Latin *boem, from Latin bōs, bovem. Compare Italian bue.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔ.i/
• Hyphenation: vò‧i

voi m

1. (zoology) ox (castrated male of cattle)

• Italian: Lo Voi (from “lu voi”)

• Traina, Antonino (1868) “voi”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, pages 4577–4578

From Proto-Finnic *voi, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *waje.

voi

1. butter

• mavoi
• voiastii
• voileib
• voimuju
• voipu
• voisegoituz
• voisen'

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “масло”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[5], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

From Middle Vietnamese 㺔 (voi), from Proto-Vietic *-vɔːj. Related to vòi (“trunk”).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [vɔj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [vɔj˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [vɔj˧˧] ~ [jɔj˧˧]

(classifier con, thớt) voi • (㺔, 𤠅, 𤢇)

1. an elephant (mammal)

   ngà voi ― elephant tusks

   Thầy bói xem voi ― Fortune-Tellers Examining an Elephant

• The usage of the classifier thớt is now mostly archaic or historical.

• vòi (“trunk”)

From Proto-Finnic *voi.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈvoi̯/, [ˈvoi̯]
• Rhymes: -oi̯
• Hyphenation: voi

voi

1. oh

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “voi”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn