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Vai vs Wai - What's the difference?

vai | wai |

As a verb vai

is to cry, weep.

vai

English

Alternative forms

* VAI

Noun

  • (linguistics) A verb animate intransitive: an intransitive verb that agrees with an animate subject.
  • Coordinate terms

    * vii * vta * vti

    wai

    English

    Etymology 1

    .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A Thai greeting wherein the palms are brought together in front of the face or chest, sometimes accompanied with a bow.
  • Etymology 2

    Phonetic respelling of why.

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (label) why (a purposeful misspelling)
  • Conjunction

    (en-conjunction)
  • (label) why (a purposeful misspelling)
  • Anagrams

    * * ---- ==Aka-Bea==

    Adverb

    (head)
  • indeed
  • References

    * Edward Horace Man, A Dictionary of the South Andaman (Aka-Bea) language (1923) ---- =='Are'are==

    Noun

    (head)
  • fresh water
  • Antonyms

    *

    References

    * Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary ----