Ai
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ai"
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Hebrew הָעַי (ha-'ai, “the heap of ruins”).
Proper noun
[edit]Ai
- (biblical) An ancient Canaanite royal city mentioned in the Book of Joshua, popularly believed to be the modern archeological site Et-Tell.
- (biblical) An ancient city mentioned in Jeremiah 49:3 of unknown location, possibly the same city as definition 1.
Translations
[edit]Canaanite royal city mentioned in the Book of Joshua
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city mentioned in the Book of Jeremiah
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Etymology 2
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Ai
- A female given name from Japanese.
Etymology 3
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Ai (plural Ais)
- A surname from Chinese.
Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Ai is the 36,379th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 615 individuals. Ai is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (82.44%) individuals.
Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Ai”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 15.
References
[edit]- "Ai" in Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary.
Anagrams
[edit]Angami
[edit]Letter
[edit]Ai
- The fourth letter of the Angami alphabet, written in the Latin script.
See also
[edit]- (Latin-script letters) Ü ü, Üi üi, A a, Ai ai, I i, Ie ie, U u, Uo uo, E e, Ei ei, O o, Ou ou, K k, Kh kh, G g, Ng ng, C c, Ch ch, J j, Jh jh, Ny ny, T t, Th th, D d, N n, Ts ts, Tsh tsh, Dz dz, P p, Ph ph, B b, M m, Pf pf, Bv bv, Y y, Yh yh, R r, Rh rh, L l, Lh lh, F f, V v, W w, Wh wh, S s, Sh sh, Z z, Zh zh, H h
German Low German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- Ägg
- Egg (Paderbornisch, Osnabrückisch, Lippisch) (plural Egger)
- Eug (Lippisch) (plural Euger)
- Egger (plural; Sauerländisch)
Etymology
[edit]From Middle Low German ei, from Old Saxon ei, from Proto-Germanic *ajją.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Japanese
[edit]Romanization
[edit]Ai
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
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Proper noun
[edit]Ai f
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- English given names
- English female given names
- English female given names from Japanese
- English terms borrowed from Chinese
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- English surnames
- English surnames from Chinese
- Angami lemmas
- Angami letters
- German Low German terms inherited from Middle Low German
- German Low German terms derived from Middle Low German
- German Low German terms inherited from Old Saxon
- German Low German terms derived from Old Saxon
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- German Low German terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- German Low German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German Low German lemmas
- German Low German nouns
- German Low German neuter nouns
- Westphalian
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- Portuguese 1-syllable words
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- pt:Bible
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