fili

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈfi.li]

fili

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

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• IPA^(key): /fíː.líː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ɸíː.líː]

fīlī m (plural fīlā̀yē, possessed form fīlin)

1. open field, plot of land, square
2. (by extension) opportunity, chance, opening

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.li/
• Rhymes: -ili
• Hyphenation: fì‧li

fili m

1. plural of filo

fili

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfiː.liː/, [ˈfiːlʲiː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.li/, [ˈfiːli]

fīlī m

1. genitive/vocative singular of fīlius

fīlī n

1. genitive singular of fīlum

fili

1. Romanization of ᡶᡳᠯᡳ

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *piliq, from Proto-Austronesian *piliq.

fili (imperfective mamili)

1. (transitive) to choose

• Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 69.

From the suffix -fili.

fili m (definite singular filien, indefinite plural filiar, definite plural filiane)

1. (countable) a philia

fili f

1. (non-standard since 2012) definite singular of fil

From Primitive Irish ᚃᚓᚂᚔᚈᚐᚄ (velitas), from Proto-Celtic *welīts.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɸʲilʲi]

fili m (genitive filed, nominative plural filid)

1. poet, seer
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 162^a3

     In tan labratar ind ḟilid a persin inna ṅdea, do·gniat primam ⁊ secundam in illis.

     When the poets speak in the person of the gods, they make a first and second [person] in them.

Masculine t-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	fili	filidL, fili	filid
Vocative	fili	filidL, fili	fileda
Accusative	filidN	filidL, fili	fileda
Genitive	filed	filed	filedN
Dative	filidL	filedaib	filedaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

• filedacht
  • Middle Irish: filidecht
    • Irish: filíocht
    • Manx: feeleeaght
    • Scottish Gaelic: filidheachd

• Irish: file
• Manx: feelee
• Scottish Gaelic: filidh

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fili”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Proto-Polynesian *fili (compare with Tongan fili and Maori whiri), from Proto-Oceanic (compare with Fijian vili (“to pick, to gather”)), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *piliq (compare with Malay pilih, Tagalog pili and pumili), from Proto-Austronesian *piliq.^[1]

fili

1. to choose, to pick
2. to elect

• filifili

From Proto-Polynesian *fili, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *piliq, from Proto-Austronesian *piliq.

• IPA^(key): /fi.li/

fili

1. to choose, to pick
2. to elect