vili

vili

1. five

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɪlɪ]

vili

1. animate masculine plural past participle of vít

From Proto-Finnic *vilja, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European [Term?]. See Finnish vilja (“grain, cereal”).

vili (genitive vilja, partitive vilja)

1. fruit

• köögivili (“vegetable”)
• puuvili

• IPA^(key): [ˈvili]
• Hyphenation: vi‧li
• Rhymes: -li

Clipping and -i diminutive of villamos (“tram”).

• villi

vili (plural vilik)

1. (informal) tram

   Synonym: villamos

Clipping and -i diminutive of világos (“clear”).

vili (not generally comparable, comparative vilibb, superlative legvilibb)

1. (informal) clear (free of ambiguity or doubt)

   Synonyms: világos, érthető

• (both senses): vili in Pusztai, Ferenc (ed.). Magyar értelmező kéziszótár (’A Concise Explanatory Dictionary of Hungarian’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2003. 2nd, expanded and revised edition. →ISBN (The online version is available with registration for one 2-hour free trial per month.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.li/
• Rhymes: -ili
• Hyphenation: vì‧li

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vili

1. plural of vile

vili m or f

1. plural of vile

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vili

1. masculine plural of vilio

From Old Norse vilja (“to want”), from Proto-Germanic *wiljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-.

• IPA^(key): [ʋɪ̀ːlɪ]

  Rhymes: -ɪ̀ːlɪ

vili

1. (with accusative) to want, wish, would like

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯iː.liː/, [ˈu̯iːlʲiː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.li/, [ˈviːli]

vīlī

1. dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of vīlis

From Proto-Germanic *wiljô, whence also Old English willa, Old High German willa.

vili m

1. will
2. (poetic) joy, delight
3. carnal lust

• viljalauss (“joyless”)

• vilja (“to want”)

• Icelandic: vilji m
• Faroese: vilji m
• Norwegian Bokmål: vilje m
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vilje m, vile m (nonstandard, dialectal)
• Jamtish: vili m
• Elfdalian: wile m
• Old Swedish: vili m, vilie m, vilia f
  • Swedish: vilja f, vilje
    • → Elfdalian: wila f
• Old Danish: vilje, vilge, vilgie
  • Danish: vilje
• Gutnish: vilä m

• “vili”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

vili

1. third-person singular/plural present active subjunctive of vilja

vili (Cyrillic spelling вили)

1. masculine plural active past participle of viti

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.li/
• Hyphenation: vi‧li

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *wiliwili. Cognates include Emae viriviri and Wallisian vili.

vili (plural fetuli or fētutuli or taufetuli)

1. (intransitive) to run; to hurry
2. (intransitive) to escape; to run away

• While the sense "to run, hurry" uses all three plurals, the sense "to escape, run away" only uses the plurals fetuli and fētutuli.

From Proto-Polynesian *wili. Cognates include Hawaiian wili and Samoan vili.

vili

1. eddy, swirl

vili (plural tavili)

1. (intransitive) to spin; to whirl
2. (transitive) to drill; to bore
3. (transitive) to telephone
4. (transitive) to be in severe pain from

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *wili. Cognates include Tuvaluan vili and Samoan vili.

vili

1. lot (used to determine a question by chance)

From Proto-Polynesian *wili. Cognates include Tongan vili and Samoan vili.

vili

1. (transitive) to aim for

• R. Simona, editor (1986) Tokelau Dictionary‎, Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 433