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fili

See also: filí, Fíli, and fíli-

Catalan

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Verb

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fili

  1. inflection of filar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Hausa

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fíː.líː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [ɸíː.líː]

Noun

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fīlī m (plural fīlā̀yē, possessed form fīlin)

  1. open field, plot of land, square
  2. (by extension) opportunity, chance, opening

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfi.li/
  • Rhymes: -ili
  • Hyphenation: fì‧li

Noun

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fili m

  1. plural of filo

Verb

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fili

  1. inflection of filare:
    1. second-person singular present indicative
    2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
    3. third-person singular imperative

Latin

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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fīlī m

  1. genitive/vocative singular of fīlius

Noun

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fīlī n

  1. genitive singular of fīlum

Manchu

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Romanization

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fili

  1. Romanization of ᡶᡳᠯᡳ

Nias

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *piliq, from Proto-Austronesian *piliq.

Verb

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fili (imperfective mamili)

  1. (transitive) to choose

References

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  • Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 69.

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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From the suffix -fili.

Noun

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fili m (definite singular filien, indefinite plural filiar, definite plural filiane)

  1. (countable) a philia

Etymology 2

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Noun

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fili f

  1. (non-standard since 2012) definite singular of fil

Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Primitive Irish ᚃᚓᚂᚔᚈᚐᚄ (velitas), from Proto-Celtic *welīts.

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Noun

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fili m (genitive filed, nominative plural filid)

  1. poet, seer
    • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 162a3
      In tan labratar ind ḟilid a persin inna ṅdea, do·gniat primam ⁊ secundam in illis.
      When the poets speak in the person of the gods, they make a first and second [person] in them.

Declension

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Masculine t-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative fili filidL, fili filid
Vocative fili filidL, fili fileda
Accusative filidN filidL, fili fileda
Genitive filed filed filedN
Dative filidL filedaib filedaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

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Mutation

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Mutation of fili
radical lenition nasalization
fili ḟili fili
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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Samoan

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *fili (compare with Tongan fili and Maori whiri), from Proto-Oceanic (compare with Fijian vili (“to pick, to gather”)), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *piliq (compare with Malay pilih, Tagalog pili and pumili), from Proto-Austronesian *piliq.[1]

Verb

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fili

  1. to choose, to pick
  2. to elect

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “fili.1”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online

Tongan

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *fili, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *piliq, from Proto-Austronesian *piliq.

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Verb

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fili

  1. to choose, to pick
  2. to elect
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