noi

Etymology

From Latin nōs. Compare Romanian noi.

Pronoun

noi

1. (first-person plural pronoun, nominative) we

Pronoun

noi

1. (long/stressed accusative form) us

Etymology

From Latin niger.

Adjective

noi (feminine noire, masculine plural nois, feminine plural noires)

1. black

Alternative forms

• noy (obsolete)

Etymology

Unknown. Proposals include:

1. Vulgar Latin *novius (“newly wed”)
2. Vulgar Latin *novinus, a diminutive of novus (“new”)
3. from a diminutive of nin (a variant form of nen), i.e. nin > ninoi > noi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈnɔj]

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

noi m (plural nois, feminine noia)

1. boy, young man

   Synonyms: xic, al·lot, pallago

Further reading

• “noi” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “noi”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “noi” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “noi” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Alternative forms

• noscu, no

Etymology

From Latin nos, from Proto-Italic *nōs. Cognates include Italian noi and Romanian noi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔj/

Pronoun

noi

1. we
2. us (disjunctive)

References

• “noi, noscu, no” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Etymology

From Latin nōs. Compare Italian noi, French nous and Spanish nos.

Pronoun

noi

1. (first-person plural pronoun, oblique case) us

Etymology

From the oblique forms (see the inflection under tuo) by analogy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnoi̯/, [ˈno̞i̯]
• Rhymes: -oi
• Hyphenation^(key): noi

Pronoun

noi

1. (now colloquial or dialectal) nominative plural of toi

Further reading

• “noi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Anagrams

• -oin, oin

Noun

noi

1. request

Verb

noi

1. (transitive) to ask for, request

Etymology

From Latin nōs, from Proto-Italic *nōs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnoj/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -oj
• Hyphenation: nói

Pronoun

noi (first person plural)

1. we; us

Anagrams

• -ino, -oni, Ino, ino

Preposition

noi

1. counter, averse, against, versus, cross, opposed

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nuj/

Pronoun

noi

1. we; us

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /noj/
• Rhymes: -oj

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin nōs, from Proto-Italic *nōs. Compare Aromanian noi.

Etymology 2

Forms of the adjective nou

Etymology

From Latin novem. Compare Italian nove.

Numeral

noi

1. (Campidanese) nine

Etymology

From Latin nōs, from Proto-Italic *nōs, from the oblique forms of Proto-Indo-European *wéy (“us”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnoi/

Pronoun

noi

1. we, us

References

• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [nɔj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [nɔj˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [nɔj˧˧]

Verb

noi • (𨁡, 𨁧, 𫏙, 𬧇, 𬧗)

1. (usually with theo) to follow; to look in respect

Alternative forms

• non

Etymology

Cognates: Navajo nooʼ, Chiricahua non, Mescalero non, Plains Apache nǫǫ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nòj/

Noun

noi

1. something stored away, cache

Noun

noi

1. breast