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Wai vs Swai - What's the difference?

wai | swai |

As nouns the difference between wai and swai

is that wai is a Thai greeting wherein the palms are brought together in front of the face or chest, sometimes accompanied with a bow while swai is a species of shark catfish, taxonomic name species: Pangasianodon hypophthalmus.

As an adverb wai

is why a purposeful misspelling.

As a conjunction wai

is why a purposeful misspelling.

wai

English

Etymology 1

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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 ----

    swai

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A species of shark catfish, taxonomic name .

    • Synonyms

    * iridescent shark