ami

ami

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

• Wiktionary's coverage of Amis terms

ami

1. water

• Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 201, →ISBN:

  […] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-ˀ "water" [GT]:

  (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: […] Birgit ˀàmì [Jng. 1973 MS] […]

ami

1. inflection of amar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• Hyphenation: a‧mi

ami

1. a sapling

ami

1. Second-person plural pronoun; you (plural)

ami

1. water

• R. Blench, Ake wordlist (lists the Eggon word in notes)

From Italian amare, from Latin amō. Doublet of -ema.

• IPA^(key): [ˈami]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ami
• Hyphenation: a‧mi

ami (present amas, past amis, future amos, conditional amus, volitive amu)

1. (transitive) to love

   Antonym: malami

   Mi amas vin. ― I love you.

   Mi estos amita.^[1] ― I will have been loved.

Inherited from Latin amīcus.

ami m (plural amis) (ORB, broad)

1. male friend

   Coordinate term: amia f

• ami in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• ami in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 733: “l'amico; gli amici” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France^[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 38: “ton ami” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “amicus, -a”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 445

Inherited from Middle French amy, ami, from Old French ami, amic, from Latin amīcus. Compare Catalan amic, Italian amico, Portuguese amigo, Romanian amic, Sardinian amícu, Spanish amigo. Doublet of igo.

• IPA^(key): /a.mi/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Homophones: amict, amicts, amie, amies, amis
• Hyphenation: ami

ami m (plural amis, feminine amie)

1. friend (one who is affectionately attached to another)

   Nous devons toujours être aux côtés de nos parents et de nos amis.

   We must always stand by our family and our friends.

• ami avec bénéfices
• chambre d’ami
• conseil d’ami
• en ami
• meilleur ami
• petit ami
• prix d’ami
• tir ami
• gomi

• amical
• amitié

• Haitian Creole: zanmi
• →⇒ Polish: amikoszoneria

• ami·e·s

• “ami”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• mai

From Old French ami, amic, from Latin amīcus.

ami m (plural amis; feminine amie, plural amies)

1. friend

ami

1. I, me; first-person singular pronoun.

ami or amí

1. second harvest

ed  Table of Correlatives (cf. H. demonstrative adverbs)
question		this	that	same	every-/all	no-	relative	some	any	else
		e/i-	a/o-	ugyan	mind(en)-	se(m/n)-	a- + qu.	vala	akár bár	más
who	ki	ő		u	mindenki	senki	aki	v	a b	m
what	mi	ez	az	u u	minden	semmi	ami / amely	v	a b	m
which	melyik				mindegyik mind	semelyik egyik sem	amelyik	v	a b	m
how	hogy(an) miként	így	úgy	u u	mindenhogy mindenhogyan	sehogy(an) semmiképpen	(a)mint ahogy(an)	v v	a b a b	m/m m/m
what…like what kind	milyen miféle	ilyen efféle	olyan afféle	u u	mindenféle	semmilyen semmiféle	amilyen	v v	a b a b	m m/m
where	hol	itt	ott	u u	mindenhol mindenütt	sehol	ahol	v	a b	m m
from wh.	honnan	innen	onnan	u u	mindenhonnan	sehonnan	ahonnan	v	a b	m
to where	hova hová	ide	oda	u u	mindenhova mindenhová	sehova sehová	ahova ahová	v v	a b a b	m m
from which way	merről	erről	arról	u u	mindenfelől	semerről	amerről	v	a b	m
which way	merre merrefelé	erre errefelé	arra arrafelé	u u	mindenfelé	semerre	amerre	v	a b	m
why	miért	ezért	azért	u u	mindenért	semmiért	amiért	v	a b	m
how many	hány	ennyi	annyi	u u	mind az összes	sehány	ahány	v	a b	–
how much	mennyi					semennyi	amennyi	v	a b
wh. extent	mennyire	ennyire	annyira	u u	(teljesen)	semennyire	amennyire	v	a b	–
what size	mekkora	ekkora	akkora	u u	(az egész)	semekkora	amekkora	v	a b	–
what time	mikor	ekkor	akkor	u u	mindig	soha/sose(m) sohase(m)	amikor	v	a b	m
how long how far	meddig	eddig	addig	u u	(végig)*	semeddig	ameddig	v	a b	–
*: Mindeddig/-addig mean “up until this/that point” (= egészen eddig/addig). Csak following relative pronouns expresses “-ever”, e.g. aki csak (“whoever”); is after “any” pronouns emphasizes “no matter”: akármit is (“no matter what”). né- (“some”) forms compounds with few words.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒmi]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ami
• Rhymes: -mi

ami

1. (relative) which; that

   Coordinate terms: amely, amelyik

See the Usage notes at amely and amelyik.

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	ami	amik
accusative	amit	amiket
dative	aminek	amiknek
instrumental	amivel	amikkel
causal-final	amiért	amikért
translative	amivé	amikké
terminative	amiig	amikig
essive-formal	amiként	amikként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	amiben	amikben
superessive	amin	amiken
adessive	aminél	amiknél
illative	amibe	amikbe
sublative	amire	amikre
allative	amihez	amikhez
elative	amiből	amikből
delative	amiről	amikről
ablative	amitől	amiktől
non-attributive possessive - singular	amié	amiké
non-attributive possessive - plural	amiéi	amikéi

Possessive forms of ami
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	amim	amijeim (or amiim)
2nd person sing.	amid	amijeid (or amiid)
3rd person sing.	amije	amijei (or amii)
1st person plural	amink	amijeink (or amiink)
2nd person plural	amitek	amijeitek (or amiitek)
3rd person plural	amijük	amijeik (or amiik)

• ami in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• ami in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

• ima, mai

• IPA^(key): /ˈami/

ami

1. plural of amo

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.mi/
• Rhymes: -ami
• Hyphenation: à‧mi

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ami

1. inflection of amare:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person singular imperative

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ami m

1. plural of amo

• ima, mai, mia

ami

1. Rōmaji transcription of あみ
2. Rōmaji transcription of アミ

From Portuguese mim.

ami

1. I, me

• ammi

From Ancient Greek ἄμι (ámi), itself probably from Egyptian.

ami n (indeclinable)

1. bisnaga (Visnaga daucoides, syn. Ammi visnaga)

• ami in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

ami

1. water

From Early Assamese আমি (ami, “I, we”).

ami

1. I (first person singular pronoun)

   Synonym: moi

ami m (plural amis)

1. (Mistralian) Alternative form of amic

• amic (La Vie de Saint Alexis, 11^th century manuscripts)

From Latin amīcus.

ami oblique singular, m (oblique plural amis, nominative singular amis, nominative plural ami)

1. friend

• amie f

• Champenois: amin, anmin (Possesse)
• Middle French: amy, ami
  • French: ami
    • Haitian Creole: zanmi
    • →⇒ Polish: amikoszoneria
• Norman: amin

• mi (synonym)

From Spanish mi and Kabuverdianu ami.

ami

1. I, me, my.

ami

1. uncle (mother's brother)

• Christiaan Fahner, The morphology of Yali and Dani (1979), page 25

• amitg (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan)
• amei (Surmiran)
• amih (Puter)

From Latin amīcus.

ami m (plural amis)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader) (male) friend, boyfriend

• cumpogn
• (Rumantsch Grischun) camarat
• (Vallader) camarad

• (gender): amia

From Japanese 網 (ami).

ami

1. net

ami

1. second-person singular present active indicative of amari
2. second-person singular present active subjunctive of amari

Clipping of amigo or amiga.

ami m or f by sense (plural amis)

1. (colloquial) friend; bud

• “ami”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

• amu

Borrowed from Arabic عَمّ (ʕamm, “paternal uncle”).

• Audio (Kenya):

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ami (n class, plural ami)

1. paternal uncle

• mjomba (“maternal uncle”)

ami

1. blood

• IPA^(key): /ˈami/

ami

1. person

• Mark W. Post (2017) The Tangam Language: Grammar, Lexicon and Texts, →ISBN

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kami, compare Malay kami.

ami

1. we

• Fransiskus Monteiro (1985) Kamus Tetun-Indonesia [Tetum-Indonesian Dictionary] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan

From English army.

ami

1. army

ami

1. louse

ami

1. needle

ami

1. water

• Frank Seidel, A Grammar of Yeyi: A Bantu Language of Southern Africa (2008)

• اَمِ

• IPA^(key): /à.mĩ̀/

àmì

1. sign, mark, symbol

   Àmì ìbẹ̀rẹ̀ òjò rírọ̀ ni awọ àwọsánmà tó ń bẹ lójú ọ̀run ― The sign of incoming rain is the colour of the clouds in the sky

From English amen, from Ecclesiastical Latin āmēn, from Ancient Greek ἀμήν (amḗn), from Biblical Hebrew אָמֵן (ʾāmēn, “certainly, verily”) when used by Yoruba Christians, it is invoked with the Anglo-Christian meaning in mind. Also from Arabic آمِين (ʔāmīn), from Classical Syriac ܐܰܡܺܝܢ (ʾāmēn) or Aramaic אַמִין (ʾāmēn), possibly via Koine Greek ᾱ̓μήν (āmḗn), from Biblical Hebrew אָמֵן (ʾāmēn) when used by Yoruba Muslims, it is invoked with the Arabic meaning in mind.

• àmín

• IPA^(key): /à.mĩ́/

àmí

1. (Christianity) amen
2. (Islam) amin, ameen

• àṣẹ (“let it be so so, may it be so”)

• IPA^(key): /ā.mĩ́/

amí

1. spy

   Synonyms: aṣamí, alamí

From Proto-Trans-New Guinea *amu.

ami

1. breast