"わい" meaning in All languages combined

See わい on Wiktionary

Affix [Japanese]

Forms: wai [romanization]
Etymology: The reading of various kanji. Head templates: {{ja-pos|affix}} わい • (wai)
  1. 歪: askew; crooked
    Sense id: en-わい-ja-affix-TrZofD6K
  2. 猥: obscene; lewd
    Sense id: en-わい-ja-affix-QLIsVvGP
  3. 隈: corner; nook; recess; inlet
    Sense id: en-わい-ja-affix-7qpoTWk6
  4. 矮: low; short
    Sense id: en-わい-ja-affix-hx4dzOQi
  5. 賄: bribe
    Sense id: en-わい-ja-affix-j7RnJcj4 Categories (other): Japanese affixes Disambiguation of Japanese affixes: 5 8 10 0 16 0 21 18 24
  6. 穢: dirty
    Sense id: en-わい-ja-affix-iFnr5wpv
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Particle [Japanese]

Forms: wai [romanization]
Etymology: See い (i). Etymology templates: {{m|ja|い|tr=i}} い (i) Head templates: {{ja-pos|particle}} わい • (wai)
  1. (dated or dialectal) A particle used in the end of sentences to indicate admiration or emotion. Slightly stronger than わ (wa). Tags: dated, dialectal Related terms: だい (dai), かい (kai)
    Sense id: en-わい-ja-particle-nHlHlrZI Categories (other): Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese affixes, Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys, Japanese links with manual fragments, Japanese particles, Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations Disambiguation of Japanese affixes: 5 8 10 0 16 0 21 18 24 Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 3 5 5 0 4 0 56 20 7 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 80 14 6 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 4 9 4 0 6 0 50 19 8 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 4 9 4 0 6 0 49 21 8
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Pronoun [Japanese]

IPA: [ɰᵝa̠i] Forms: wai [romanization]
Etymology: Generally regarded as a shift from わし (washi), itself from 私 (watashi, “I, me”). First cited in a text from 1920, but likely older. The second-person sense of you likely arose via the same general indirection mechanisms that gave rise to all Japanese personal pronouns. Consider also ancient 汝 (na) or more modern 己 (onore), used for both first- and second-person referral. This usage is first cited in a text from 1923, but is likely older. Etymology templates: {{ja-r|わし}} わし (washi), {{m|ja|私||I, me|tr=watashi}} 私 (watashi, “I, me”), {{m|en|you}} you, {{m|ja|汝|tr=na}} 汝 (na), {{m|ja|己|tr=onore}} 己 (onore) Head templates: {{ja-pos|pronoun}} わい • (wai)
  1. (dialect, Kansai, Kagoshima; or Internet slang) I, me (first-person pronoun, mainly used by males) Tags: Internet, Kagoshima, Kansai, dialectal
    Sense id: en-わい-ja-pron-2DF2akYd Categories (other): Kagoshima Japanese, Kansai Japanese, Japanese affixes, Japanese pronouns Disambiguation of Japanese affixes: 5 8 10 0 16 0 21 18 24 Disambiguation of Japanese pronouns: 55 45
  2. you (second-person pronoun, used when addressing an equal or inferior) Synonyms: お前
    Sense id: en-わい-ja-pron-dtJV5JE4 Categories (other): Japanese affixes, Japanese pronouns Disambiguation of Japanese affixes: 5 8 10 0 16 0 21 18 24 Disambiguation of Japanese pronouns: 55 45
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.