hui

Borrowed from Maori hui.

• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈhʉː.iː/, [ˈhʉ(w)i(ː)]

hui (plural hui or huis)

1. (New Zealand) A Māori social gathering or assembly.
   • 1962, Education, volume 11, page 56:

     […] accounts of the proceedings of important huis at which Maori leaders took the initiative in discussing their educational and vocational needs […]

2. (New Zealand, by extension) A meeting to discuss plans held by an organization, especially one that considers itself progressive.
   • 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 154:

     Shelley's document hadn't mentioned the billionaire at all, and although Mira had said at the hui that Lemoine used the airstrip frequently, she'd seemed to suggest that the farm was his destination, not his point of departure, whicvh would imply that he was living somewhere else.

• An-hui (etymologically unrelated)

• UHI

Inherited from Old Catalan hui, from Latin hodiē, from hōc +‎ diē (literally “on this day”).

• (Valencia) IPA^(key): /wi/

hui

1. Valencia form of avui (“today”)
2. (other dialects) Archaic form of avui.

• “avui” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Middle Dutch hoey, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaij (“whey”).

• IPA^(key): /ɦœy̯/

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• Hyphenation: hui
• Rhymes: -œy̯
• Homophone: Huij

hui f (uncountable)

1. (dated, dialectal) whey [First attested in the late 15th century.]

   Synonyms: wei, melkwei

   Hui is een bijproduct van het maken van kaas. ― Whey is a side product of cheese production.

   • 1612, Gerbrand Adriaensz. Bredero, “Symen sonder Soeticheydt”, in Kluchten, page 108:

     Wy aten een potje karmelck …, en droncken een toochje huy…

     We ate a jar of buttermilk porridge…, and drank a swig of whey…

   • 1811, Johannes le Francq van Berkhey, Natuurlyke historie van Holland, vol. 9, publ. P. H. Trap, page 453.

     De melk wordt … verwerkt tot boter, kaas, karnemelk en hui …,

     The milk is … processed into butter, cheese, buttermilk and whey …,

• huiboter

From Proto-Finnic *hoi, *hui, from Proto-Finno-Permic *šoje, *šuje. Cognate to Finnish hui (“spool”)

hui (genitive hui, partitive huid)

1. (uncommon) a specific type of needle

   Synonyms: piirits, ui

From Russian хуй (xuj).

hui

1. (vulgar, slang) Expresses surprise, astonishment, or disbelief at the statement

   Hui sa tead teda.

   The hell you know him.

hui (genitive hui, partitive huid)

1. (vulgar, slang) cock, dick, penis

   Synonyms: türa, munn

• IPA^(key): /ˈhui̯/, [ˈhui̯]
• Rhymes: -ui
• Hyphenation^(key): hui

Related to Karelian hui. Possibly onomatopoeic, but may also be borrowed. Compare Swedish huj, German hui.

hui

1. oh! (an exclamation when scared or startled)

• “hui”, 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 *hoi, *hui, from Proto-Finno-Permic *šoje, *šuje.

hui (dialectal, obsolete, Satakunta, Tavastia)

1. spool, bobbin

• käämi, puola

• huippu

Inherited from Old French hui, from Latin hodiē, from hōc (“this”) + diē.

Cognate with Occitan uòi, uèi, Catalan hui and avui, Galician hoxe, Spanish hoy, Portuguese hoje and Italian oggi.

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /ɥi/

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hui

1. (archaic except in the compound aujourd'hui) today

hui

1. an exclamation of pleasant surprise

• “hui” in Duden online
• “hui” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From Proto-Oceanic *pui₁ (“fruit bunch”) (compare with Maori hui (“flock, herd, congregation”) and Tahitian hui (“group”) plus Maori huihui (“group, assembly”) and Tahitian huihui (“collection”)).^[1][2] Doublet of huihui.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhu.i/, [ˈhu.wi]

hui

1. club, organization
2. company, firm
3. combination
4. cluster, bunch (of fruit)

   Synonym: ʻāhui

5. (music) chorus (refrain)
6. (mathematics) plus sign

hui

1. (intransitive) to meet

   A hui hou, mālama pono. ― Until we meet again, take good care.

2. (intransitive) to unite, join
3. (intransitive) to combine

• ʻāhui

• hū

hui

1. plural of huo

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /hui̯/, [hʊi̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /uj/, [uj]

hui

1. ho!, my word! (expressing surprise)
2. ooh!, aah! (expressing admiration)

• Spanish: uy, huy

• “hui”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hui”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• hui in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• hui in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

hui

1. Nonstandard spelling of huī.
2. Nonstandard spelling of huí.
3. Nonstandard spelling of huǐ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of huì.

• 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.

From Proto-Polynesian from Proto-Oceanic *pui₁ (“bunch of fruit”) (compare with Hawaiian hui (“troupe, association, society, club”) and Tahitian hui (“group”) plus Hawaiian huihui (“cluster, collection, bunch”) and Tahitian huihui (“collection”)).^[1][2] Doublet of huihui.

hui

1. to gather, congregate, assemble, meet

hui

1. gathering, meeting, assembly, seminar, conference

• kāhui

• “hui” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

hui

1. Alternative form of he (“they”)

From Proto-Polynesian *hui, from Proto-Oceanic *suʀi/ruʀi (“thorn, splinter, fish bone”), from Proto-Austronesian *duʀi (“thorn”).

hui

1. bone

• “hui” in Tohi Vagahau Niuē (Niuean Language Dictionary).

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈhuj/

hui

1. very

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[4], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

From Latin hodiē.

hui m

1. today

• Middle French: hui
  • ⇒ French: d’hui (in fixed expressions), aujourd’hui (see there for further descendants)
• Walloon: ouy

• huí (deprecated)

• IPA^(key): /uˈi/ [uˈi]

hui

1. inflection of huir:
   1. first-person singular preterite indicative
   2. second-person singular voseo imperative

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

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-hui (infinitive kuhui)

1. to revive

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -huia
  • Causative: -huisha
  • Passive: -huiwa
  • Reciprocal: -huiana
  • Stative: -huika

From Proto-Polynesian *hui, from Proto-Oceanic *suʀi/ruʀi (“thorn, splinter, fish bone”), from Proto-Austronesian *duʀi (“thorn”).

• IPA^(key): /hu.i/

hui

1. bone
2. needle
3. hand (of clock)

• Churchward, C. Maxwell (1959) Tongan dictionary: Tongan-English and English-Tongan, →OCLC, page 234