foi

foi

1. third-person singular preterite indicative of ser

• IPA^(key): /βoi/

foi

1. Alternative form of boi

• Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.

Inherited from Middle French foy, from Old French foi, fei, feid, from Latin fidem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ- (“to command, to persuade, to trust”).

• IPA^(key): /fwa/

• Audio (Paris):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -a
• Homophones: foie, foies, fois
• Hyphenation: foi

foi f (plural fois)

1. faith
2. (heraldry) a depiction of a handshake

• féal
• fidèle

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

Inflected form of ir (“to go”).

foi

1. third-person singular preterite indicative of ir

Inflected form of ser (“to be”).

foi

1. third-person singular preterite indicative of ser

• feid, fid, fiet (archaic)
• fai, fei, foy

From Latin fidem.

• (archaic) IPA^(key): /ˈfei̯θ/
• (classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfoi̯/, (northern) /ˈfei̯/

foi oblique singular, f (oblique plural fois, nominative singular foi, nominative plural fois)

1. faith
2. allegiance; faithfulness
   • c. 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan, page 156 (of the Champion Classiques edition), →ISBN, line 1837:

     sa fei lealment li afie

     he loyally pledges his allegiance to him

• Champenois: fiate, fiaite
• Middle French: foy
  • French: foi
  • → English: foy, Foy
• Norman: fouai
• → Middle English: feith, feiþ, feyth, feyt, faith, faythe, fath, fai, fay, faye, fei, fey, feye
  • English: faith
  • Scots: faith
  • Yola: faaighe, faighe, faigh, fythe

• foy (obsolete)
• foe (obsolete)

• Rhymes: -oj
• Hyphenation: foi

foi

1. third-person singular preterite indicative of ir
2. third-person singular preterite indicative of ser
   • 1999, J. K. Rowling, Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Prisioneiro de Azkaban, Rocco, page 57:

     O jantar aquela noite foi muito agradável.

     The dinner that night was very pleasant.

foi

1. (Brazil) indicates that an action has been undertaken; done

   Synonym: feito

   — Pode enviar a mensagem? — Foi.

   “Can you send the message?”, “Done.”

• Rhymes: -oj

From foaie +‎ -i.

foi

1. plural of foaie

Either from foaie +‎ -i or from a Vulgar Latin root *follīre, from Late Latin follēre, present active infinitive of folleō, from Latin follis.

a foi (third-person singular present foiește, past participle foit) 4th conj.

1. (reflexive) to fuss, bustle, move about
2. (of a place) to be full of people who are busy, teem with

   Synonym: mișuna

• foale
• înfoia

West Makian cardinal numbers

<  4	5	6  >
Cardinal : foi

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸo.i/

foi (inanimate mafoi, animate dimfoi, polite gomafoi)

1. five

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics (as foy)