koi

koi

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Komi-Permyak.

• Wiktionary's coverage of Komi-Permyak terms

From Japanese 鯉 (koi).

• IPA^(key): /kɔɪ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪ
• Homophone: coy

koi (plural koi)

1. Ornamental domesticated varieties of the Amur carp (Cyprinus rubrofuscus), of Japan and eastern Asia with red-gold or white coloring.
   • 1985 September 2, Joe Klein, quoting Douglas S. Cramer, “The Real Star of ‘Dynasty’”, in New York, page 34:

     We sense that while it might be wonderful for Krystle and Alexis to have a catfight in a koi pond, it would be inappropriate for Joan to smack Linda with a koi.

• (Cyprinus rubrofuscus): koi carp

• Oki, oik, IOK

koi

1. tail

From English cougar.

koi

1. cougar
2. mountain lion
3. puma.

From Proto-Finnic *koi, from Proto-Uralic *käjä. Cognate with Finnish koi.

koi (genitive koi, partitive koid)

1. (insects) clothes moth (Tineola)
2. some other species of moth, such as the apple fruit moth (Argyresthia conjugella, õunakoi)

Declension of koi (ÕS type 26/koi, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		koi	koid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	koi
genitive			koide
partitive		koid	koisid
illative		koisse	koidesse
inessive		kois	koides
elative		koist	koidest
allative		koile	koidele
adessive		koil	koidel
ablative		koilt	koidelt
translative		koiks	koideks
terminative		koini	koideni
essive		koina	koidena
abessive		koita	koideta
comitative		koiga	koidega

• koiliblikas
• riidekoi

• õunakoi
• ihnuskoi
• raamatukoi
• koirohi

• liblikas
• röövik
• tõuk

From Low German koje (“tight room, bed on a ship”).

koi (genitive koi, partitive koid)

1. berth (a bed on a ship or boat), bunk bed

Declension of koi (ÕS type 26/koi, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		koi	koid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	koi
genitive			koide
partitive		koid	koisid
illative		koisse	koidesse
inessive		kois	koides
elative		koist	koidest
allative		koile	koidele
adessive		koil	koidel
ablative		koilt	koidelt
translative		koiks	koideks
terminative		koini	koideni
essive		koina	koidena
abessive		koita	koideta
comitative		koiga	koidega

• koiku

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoi̯/, [ˈko̞i̯]
• Rhymes: -oi
• Hyphenation^(key): koi

From Proto-Finnic *koi, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *käjä. Cognate with Estonian koi, Erzya ки (ki).^[1]

koi

1. (insects) moth: common clothes moth, Tineola bisselliella

   Synonyms: vaatekoi (more specific), koiperhonen

2. (insects) any of the moths in the family Tineidae
3. (pathology, archaic) cancer

   Synonym: syöpä

• perhonen
• toukka

• “1. koi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

From Proto-Finnic *koi, from Proto-Uralic *koje.

koi (archaic)

1. dawn

• (dawn): aamunkoi, aamunkoitto, sarastus

• “2. koi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

Ultimately from Japanese 鯉 (koi).

koi

1. koi carp

• koikarppi, koi-karppi, koristekarppi

• Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN

• oik.

koi

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Alternative spelling of quoi

• IPA^(key): /ˈko̯i/

koi

1. to urge

• kōina

From Proto-Finnic *koi. Cognates include Finnish koi and Estonian koi.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈkoi̯/, [ˈko̞i̯]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈkoi̯/, [ˈko̞i̯]
• Rhymes: -oi̯
• Hyphenation: koi

koi

1. moth

Declension of koi (type 8/maa, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	koi	koit
genitive	koin	koijen
partitive	koita	koita
illative	koihe	koihe
inessive	kois	kois
elative	koist	koist
allative	koille	koille
adessive	koil	koil
ablative	koilt	koilt
translative	koiks	koiks
essive	koinna, koin	koinna, koin
exessive1)	koint	koint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 183

From Chinese 開／开 (kāi). Related to nqoi.

koi 

1. (transitive) to open

koi

1. Rōmaji transcription of こい

koi

1. moth

koi

1. bed

• (Temerloh, Pahang) IPA^(key): /koi̯/

koi

1. me, I

• aku
• beta
• saya

koi

1. sharp

koi

1. spike

Borrowed from Japanese 濃い (koi, “dark”).

koi

1. gray, darkish color

Colors in Palauan · bedengel, chiro (layout · text)

becheleleu	koi (?)	chedelekelek
bekerkard, rirch; bungungau	bibrurek, berorou; cheriich, bedengel a chutem	bibrurek, mellil, merir
bedengel a biib (?)	bedengel a biib, bedengel a chudel
mellemau	mellemau, bedengel a eanged	mellemau, bedengel a daob
ulalk	ulalk

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.i/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔi
• Syllabification: ko‧i

koi

1. third-person singular present of koić

koi

1. Romanization of ᚕᚑᚔ

From Ternate koi (“banana”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.i/

koi

1. banana

   Synonym: bele

• Leontine Visser, Clemens Voorhoeve (1987) Sahu-Indonesian-English Dictionary, Brill

Possibly related to Tabaru koyu (“banana”), synonym of the more common Tabaru term bole.

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.i/

koi (Jawi کوي)

1. banana

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From *kori, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kerit. Compare Yogad kerrit.

koi

1. to scratch

koi

1. continuous action marker, inserted immediately before the relevant verb

From Proto-Finnic *koi.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈkoi̯/, [ˈkoi̯]
• Rhymes: -oi̯
• Hyphenation: koi

koi

1. moth, clothes moth

Declension of koi (type I/maa, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	koi	koid
genitive	koi	koijõ
partitive	koitõ	koitõ
illative	koihi, koihisõ	koisõ
inessive	koiz	koiz
elative	koissõ	koissõ
allative	koilõ	koilõ
adessive	koillõ	koillõ
ablative	koiltõ	koiltõ
translative	koissi	koissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “koi”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn