hoi

Variant of hoy.

hoi

1. A call to gain someone's attention; hey!
   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 55:

     A hollow groan, unlike anything she had ever heard in her life, came from the front, followed by a shout of "Hoi, there!"

• hoi toider
• hoi polloi

Possibly a spontaneous alteration of the interjection ho. The use as a joyful exclamation is attested from the 16th century; use as an informal greeting appears only in the 20th century.

Another possibility is the borrowing from English ahoy or Middle English hoy; See also ahoi.

• Rhymes: -ɔi̯
• IPA^(key): /ɦɔi̯/

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hoi

1. (Netherlands, informal) A greeting acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence, comparable to English hey, hi

   Hoi, hoe gaat het? ― Hey, how's it going?

2. (Netherlands, informal) A farewell acknowledging someone's departure, comparable to English goodbye, bye

   Tot morgen. Hoi! ― See you tomorrow. Bye!

3. (dated) An exclamation of joy.

   Ik heb een tante in Marokko en die komt, hiep hoi!

   I have an aunt in Morocco and she's coming over, yippee yay!

• (antonym(s) of “hey”): doei

• hoihoi

• hallo
• goedemorgen
• goede dag
• goedenavond

• hwɔ̃e

hoi

1. water

• Karl J. Franklin, Comparative Wordlist 1 of the Gulf District and adjacent areas (1975), page 67

Compare Estonian hoi, Ingrian hoi, Karelian hoi, Ludian hoi, and also Swedish hoj, Dutch hoi, English hoy. An interjection that is found in many languages.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈhoi̯/, [ˈho̞i̯]
• Rhymes: -oi
• Syllabification^(key): hoi

hoi

1. ahoy, hey

   hoi te siellä!

   hey you there!

• hopoti hoi

• “hoi”, 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 2023-07-02

• hio, iho, ohi, ohi-

hoi

1. salt deposit, salt lick

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hoi

1. (Southern Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, South Tyrol) hi! an informal greeting acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence

   Hoi, wie geht's?

   Hi, what's up?

• hallo
• guten Morgen
• guten Tag
• guten Abend
• grüezi
• servus

Cognates include Finnish hoi and Estonian hoi.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈhoi̯/, [ˈho̞i̯]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈhoi̯/, [ˈho̞i̯]
• Rhymes: -oi̯
• Hyphenation: hoi

hoi

1. Synonym of hei

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 65

hoi

1. (Gherdëina) A greeting acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence, comparable to English hey, hi

   Hoi, co vala pa?

   Hello, how's it going?

hoi (not comparable)

1. (Old Latin) here
   • 6th century BC, Tibur pedestal inscription (CIL I² 2658; image (page 18)):

     𐌇𐌏𐌉𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌌𐌉𐌕𐌀𐌕𐌊𐌀𐌖𐌉𐌏𐌔[…]𐌌𐌏𐌍𐌉𐌏𐌔𐌒𐌄𐌕𐌉𐌏𐌔𐌃[𐌏]𐌍𐌏𐌌𐌐𐌓𐌏𐌅𐌉𐌋𐌄𐌏𐌃

     HOIMEDMITATKAVIOS[…]MONIOSQETIOSD[O]NOMPROFILEOD
     Hoi mēd mitāt Kāvios […]monios Qetios d[ō]nom prō fileōd.

     Kavios […]monios Qetios places me here as a gift on behalf of his son.

hoi n

1. deep sea

hoi

1. (intransitive) go in
2. (transitive) put in

• oi

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *huy (“exclamation to express surprise, call to a friend, respond to a distant call, etc.”). Compare Cantonese 喂 (wai²) or Min Nan 喂 (oeh).

• IPA^(key): /hoi/

hoi (Jawi spelling هوي)

1. hey; interjection used to call out to people

   Hoi, apa kau buat tu?!

   Hey, what are you doing there?!

• “hoi” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• Blust, Robert, Trussel, Stephen (2010–) “*huy”, in The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

hoi

1. toneless rendering of hói
2. toneless rendering of hoí

Mura-Pirahã Dictionary

Possibly from English horse.

hoi

1. horse

• pepe hoi

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hoi (invariable)

1. helpless, exhausted, critically ill

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [hɔj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [hɔj˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [hɔj˧˧]

hoi • (𦤠)

1. smelly, foul

   Synonym: hôi

• IPA^(key): /ˈhoi̯/

hoi

1. hi

• “hoi”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011