See vai in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"Pages with 48 entries",
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"name": "bor"
},
{
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"2": "et",
"3": "vai"
},
"expansion": "Estonian vai",
"name": "bor"
},
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},
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"expansion": "Finnish vai",
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},
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{
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"2": "वा"
},
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}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Livonian vȯi or dialectal Estonian vai; compare other Finnic languages (Finnish vai, Standard Estonian või). First found occasionally in Latvian writings in the 17th century, initially as a conjunction, then as a particle, it became more frequent in the 18th century; but only in the 19th century did it really strike root in the language. Likely unrelated to Sanskrit वा (vā).",
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],
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{
"english": "do you speak Latvian?",
"text": "vai tu runā latviski?",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "do you hear? are you listening?",
"text": "vai tu dzirdi?",
"type": "example"
}
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"interrogative particle, used in either-or questions"
],
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[
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[
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]
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"Pages with 48 entries",
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"2": "et",
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"name": "bor"
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{
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"name": "cog"
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],
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"g": "m",
"g2": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
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"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "m",
"2": "-"
},
"expansion": "vai m (invariable)",
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{
"categories": [
"Latvian terms with usage examples"
],
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{
"english": "so many vai's (= questions) came one after the other that she couldn't stand it any longer",
"text": "cits pēc cita nāca tik daudzi vai, ka viņa nevarēja ilgāk izturēt",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"the word vai itself; also, implicitly, a question"
],
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"word",
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],
[
"vai",
"vai#Latvian"
],
[
"itself",
"itself#English"
],
[
"implicitly",
"implicitly#English"
],
[
"question",
"question#English"
]
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"masculine"
]
}
],
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"other": "[vài]"
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],
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"Latvian lemmas",
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"1": "lv",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*wáy",
"4": "*way-",
"5": "oh!, ah!; woe!, alas!"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *way- (“oh!, ah!; woe!, alas!”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "lt",
"2": "vái"
},
"expansion": "Lithuanian vái",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "goh",
"2": "wē"
},
"expansion": "Old High German wē",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "wā"
},
"expansion": "Old English wā",
"name": "cog"
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{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "vae"
},
"expansion": "Latin vae",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "weh"
},
"expansion": "German weh",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "woe"
},
"expansion": "English woe",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Indo-European *way- (“oh!, ah!; woe!, alas!”). Cognates include Lithuanian vái, vaĩ, Old High German wē, Old English wā, Latin vae, German weh, English woe.",
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"expansion": "vai",
"name": "head"
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],
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"lang_code": "lv",
"pos": "intj",
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"categories": [
"Latvian terms with usage examples"
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{
"english": "oh! what am I doing!",
"text": "vai, ko es daru!",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "boy, look at you! what a sight!",
"text": "vai, kāds jūs līks izskatāties!",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "oh come on, Ilma, you only think about money!",
"text": "vai, vai, Ilma, vai, tev tikai nauda prātā!",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"used to express emotional responses: excitement, surprise, pain, fear, sorrow, irritation, etc."
],
"links": [
[
"excitement",
"excitement"
],
[
"surprise",
"surprise"
],
[
"pain",
"pain"
],
[
"fear",
"fear"
],
[
"sorrow",
"sorrow"
],
[
"irritation",
"irritation"
]
]
}
],
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{
"other": "[vāī]"
},
{
"other": "[vài]"
},
{
"other": "[vaî]"
}
],
"word": "vai"
}
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