tui

 

Borrowed from Maori tūī.^[1]

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtuːi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈtʉːiː/

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• Rhymes: -uːi

tui (plural tui or tuis)

1. A species of honeyeater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, a bird which is endemic to New Zealand. [from early 19th c.]

   Synonyms: (both archaic) mockingbird, parson bird, (both obsolete) poë, poë-bird

   • 1832, Augustus Earle, A Narrative of a Nine Months’ Residence in New Zealand, in 1827; […], London: […] [A. & R. Spottiswoode] for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, […], →OCLC, page 174:

     [A]ll was quiet, beautiful, and serene; the only sounds which broke the calm were the wild notes of the tooe (or New Zealand blackbird), the splashing of our own oars, or the occasional flight of a wild duck (or shag), disturbed by our approach.

     The Oxford English Dictionary indicates that this is the earliest occurrence of the word in English.

   • 1863, Karl [von] Scherzer, “Auckland”, in Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, […], volume III, London: Saunders, Otley, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 159:

     The most frequently visible of these feathered denizens of the forest is the Tui (Prostemadera novæ Zelandiæ), called 'the parson' by Captain [James] Cook, in consequence of its having two white feathers in the lower part of its neck resembling bands. In colour and shape it is very like the kingfisher, and its melodious notes present great variety.

   • 1884, R[obert] McCormick, chapter XVI, in Voyages of Discovery in the Arctic and Antarctic Seas, and Round the World: […], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 297:

     Mr. Charles Enderby showed us a New Zealand Tui, or parson-bird, in a glass case, which he had kept alive in England for two years.

   • 1921, H[erbert] Guthrie-Smith, “The Future of Native Avifauna”, in Tutira: The Story of a New Zealand Sheep Station, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 216:

     The Pigeon (Carpophaga Novæ Zealandiæ) and Tui or Parson Bird (Prosthemadera Novæ Zealandiæ) are certain also to become rare birds. Elsewhere on the run food-supply and breeding accommodation alike will have been swept clear. A few pair of each will nevertheless maintain themselves in the gorges. The Tui will then as now haunt the homestead and shelter-belts when in mid-winter the eucalypts break into flower.

   • a. 1973, Eileen Duggan, “[Appendix: Selected Prose] A Few New Zealand Roads”, in Peter Whiteford, editor, Selected Poems, Wellington: Victoria University Press, published 1994, →ISBN, page 107:

     But it was the Tui Marina end that lingers in the memory. It was haunted by tuis, great insolent Carusos, who would half throw a note and then break off in the middle in sheer delight at their own marvellousness or in sudden greed.

   • 2011, Pat Willmer, “Pollination in Different Habitats”, in Pollination and Floral Ecology, Princeton, N.J., Woodstock, Oxfordshire: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, part IV (Floral Ecology), page 601, column 2:

     On these two large islands [New Zealand], the native biota lacks many angiosperm and insect groups found routinely elsewhere, and the native flowers (about 80% endemic) are strongly dominated by rather dull white generalist forms, with flies, small moths, and beetles visiting: there are just a few bee- and bird-pollinated examples (visited mainly by bellbirds and tuis), and no native butterfly flowers.

• tui na

•   tui (bird) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
•   Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
•   Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

• I-tu, ITU, Tiu, UTI

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-t(w)əj-n ~ m-ti-s (“water”). Cognate to S'gaw Karen ထံ (hṭee).

tui

1. water

• Helga So-Hartmann, A descriptive grammar of Daai Chin (2009)

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

tui

1. king
2. principal chief

• IPA^(key): /tui/

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tui (plural tuit)

1. shoulder

From Danish due

tui (plural tuit)

1. pigeon

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-t(w)əj-n ~ m-ti-s (“water”). Cognate to S'gaw Karen ထံ (hṭee).

tui

1. water

• Trisha Borgohain (2017), Hrangkhol Nam Chonga Irchuna Lekhabu: A Learner's Book on the Hrangkhol Language, p.86, Centre for Endangered Languages, Tezpur University

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *tuy, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *təy (“water”). Cognates include Mandarin 涕 (tì) and S'gaw Karen ထံ (hṭee).

• IPA^(key): /tui̯˥/

tui

1. water

• K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin‎^[2], Payap University, page 44

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtu.iː/, [ˈt̪uiː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtu.i/, [ˈt̪uːi]

tuī

1. genitive singular of tū

tuī

1. inflection of tuus:
   1. masculine nominative/vocative plural
   2. masculine/neuter genitive singular

tui

1. Nonstandard spelling of tuī.
2. Nonstandard spelling of tuí.
3. Nonstandard spelling of tuǐ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of tuì.

• 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 *tui (“to thread on string”) (compare with Hawaiian kui)^[1][2] from Proto-Oceanic *tuRi₁ from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuhuR (“to string together”) (compare with Tagalog tuhog).^[2][3]

tui

1. to thread, to string together
2. to pierce with a needle
3. to sew

tui

1. string, thread

• tuitui

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “tui”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 527
• “tui” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

tui

1. (to be) lying down, in bed

tui

1. to be born

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *tuy, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *təy (“water”). Cognate to S'gaw Karen ထံ (hṭee).

tui

1. water
2. any liquid

tui

1. to flow

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *tuy, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-t(w)əj-n ~ m-ti-s.

tui

1. water

• Matu (Chin) Dictionary by Ropna Saruum, Matupi 2007

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-t(w)əj-n ~ m-ti-s (“water”). Cognate to S'gaw Karen ထံ (hṭee).

tui

1. water

• Kosei Otsuka, A Basic Vocabulary and a Text of the Ralte Language (2016)

tui

1. sew

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tui

1. you (singular)

• IPA^(key): /ˈtwi/ [ˈt̪wi]
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: tui

tui m (plural tuis)

1. tweet (post of Twitter)

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tui (ma class, no plural)

1. coconut milk

   tui la nazi

   coconut milk

tui

1. earache
2. otitis

• Sven Wahlroos (2002) “tui”, in English–Tahitian, Tahitian–English Dictionary, First edition, Honolulu: The Mā'ohi Heritage Press, →ISBN

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *tuy, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-t(w)əj-n ~ m-ti-s.

tui

1. water

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ɗuuy, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *twəy.

tui

1. egg

• Zomi Ordbog, based on the work of D.L. Haokip

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [tuj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [tuj˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [tuj˧˧]

tui • (碎)

1. (colloquial, sometimes humorous, especially used among close friends along with ông or bà) Central Vietnam and Southern Vietnam form of tôi

• Unlike its alternative form tôi, tui is not considered formal and can be seen used regularly by Central and Southern Vietnamese speakers.

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *tuy, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *təy (“water”).

• IPA^(key): /tûj/
• Hyphenation: tui

tùi

1. water

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 64