Hi

Etymology

 * American English (first recorded reference is to speech of a Kansas Indian), originally to attract attention, probably a variant of Middle English hy, hey (circa 1475) also an exclamation to call attention.

Interjection
hi


 * 1) A friendly, informal, casual greeting said when meeting someone.
 * Hi, how are you?
 * I just dropped by to say “hi”.

Synonyms

 * hello

Translations

 * Aleut: aang
 * American Sign Language:
 * Arabic:, ,
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: kaixo
 * Bosnian: merhaba, ćao
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: hola
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin: (the most common),,  ,  哈啰 (sometimes: )
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: hallo, goddag, hej!, dav
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:, ,
 * Filipino: helo, hoy
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:, , yo
 * Galician: hola
 * German:, 'n Tag
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, , हाइ
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: salute, hallo
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: salute, hallo


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Korean:
 * Latin: ,
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Macedonian:
 * Maltese: ejj
 * Mongolian: sain uu
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:, درود
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Punjabi: (sat sri akal, formal), (kiddhan, informal)
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , здрасте
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: ,
 * Sicilian: sabbinirìca
 * Slovak:, ,
 * Slovene: živjo, zdravo
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: hallå, hej! (god dag formal)
 * Tagalog: ,
 * Tamil: வணக்கம் (vanakkam)
 * Thai: หวัดดี,
 * Turkish: ,
 * Tzutujil: coli
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu:, نمستے
 * Vietnamese: (depending on the relationship between speaker and person addressed, one of the following terms may be appended: ông, bà, cô, anh, chị, em, quí vị)
 * Volapük: glidis!
 * Welsh:

Adjective
hi


 * , often hyphenated.
 * Get hi-quality videos here!
 * ''Next, set the burner to hi.

Derived terms

 * hi-tech
 * hi-lo
 * hi-five
 * highfalutin

Related terms

 * lo
 * mid

Anagrams

 * IH

Noun
hi m (-ri)


 * 1) ashes

Pronoun
hi


 * 1) you (singular, familiar)

Pronoun
hi


 * 1) she

Etymology
From ibi, there.

Despite the many similarities between the modern Catalan hi and the modern French y, it is a matter of debate at what stage the distinction between the two forms occurred. In both the langue d'oc and in Proto-Iberian dialects of vulgar Latin (the two most probable sources of the pronoun in medieval Catalan), ibi became contracted first to vi and then to hi: the transformation in the langue d'oïl, and thence to Middle French, is less clear.

Pronoun

 * 1) represents a place associated with the action described by the verb, unless the place would be introduced by the preposition de
 * 2) there (in constructions such as "there is", "there are", etc.: see haver-hi)
 * 3) replaces an adverb (or adverbial phrase) describing the manner, instrument or association of an action
 * 4) replaces a phrase introduced by any preposition except de (most commonly a or en)
 * 5) replaces an indefinite noun or an adjective which is the predicate of a verb other than ésser, esdevenir, estar or semblar
 * 6) (Central Catalan) in combination with other object pronouns, the third person singular indirect object pronoun ("to him", "to her", "to it")

Derived terms

 * l'hi, m'hi, n'hi, s'hi, t'hi
 * -ens-hi, -l'hi, -la-hi, -les-hi, -los-hi, 'ls-hi, -m'hi, -n'hi, 'ns-hi, -s'hi, -t'hi, -us-hi, -vos-hi

Pronoun

 * 1) she (third-person feminine singular personal pronoun).

Etymology 1
From hi:, from  hið:.

Noun

 * 1) hibernation

Synonyms

 * vinterhi

Etymology 2
Onomatopoeia for laughter or giggling.

Interjection

 * 1) ha (representation of laughter)

Pronoun
hī



Etymology
From هي:

Pronoun

 * 1) she

Etymology
From hie:, from.

Pronoun

 * 1) he

Descendants

 * Dutch:

Pronoun

 * 1) he

Pronoun
hi


 * 1) he

Pronoun
hi


 * 1) she, her.

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