# fili
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈfi.li]

### Verb

fili
* inflection of filar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Hausa
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fíː.líː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [ɸíː.líː]

### Noun

fīlī m (plural fīlā̀yē, possessed form fīlin)
* open field, plot of land, square
* (by extension) opportunity, chance, opening

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfi.li/
* Rhymes: -ili
* Hyphenation: fì‧li

### Noun

fili m
* plural of filo

### Verb

fili
* inflection of filare:
** second-person singular present indicative
** first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Latin
### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

fīlī m
* genitive/vocative singular of fīlius

### Noun

fīlī n
* genitive singular of fīlum

## Manchu
### Romanization

fili
* Romanization of ᡶᡳᠯᡳ

## Nias
### Etymology

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

### Verb

fili (imperfective mamili)
* (transitive) to choose

### References

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

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

From the suffix -fili.

#### Noun

fili m (definite singular filien, indefinite plural filiar, definite plural filiane)
* (countable) a philia

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

fili f
* (non-standard since 2012) definite singular of fil

## Old Irish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɸʲilʲi]

### Noun

fili m (genitive filed, nominative plural filid)
* 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$^a$3
    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.

#### Declension

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

#### Derived terms

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

#### Descendants

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

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

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

## Samoan
### Etymology

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.

### Verb

fili
* to choose, to pick
* to elect

#### Derived terms

* filifili

### References

* ↑ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “fili.1”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online

## Tongan
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fi.li/

### Verb

fili
* to choose, to pick
* to elect