# dui
## English
### Noun

dui
* (obsolete) plural of duo

### Anagrams

* Diu, IDU, IUD, UDI, UID, Udi, udi-, uid

## Big Nambas
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈⁿdui/

### Noun

dui
* man

### References

* Big Nambas Grammar Pacific Linguistics - G.J. Fox

## Corsican
### Etymology

From Latin duo, from Proto-Italic *duō, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Cognates include Italian due and Romanian doi.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdui/
* Hyphenation: du‧i

### Numeral

dui m (feminine duie)
* two

#### References

* “dui, duie” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

## Fiji Hindi
### Etymology

From Bhojpuri दुइ (dui).

### Numeral

dui
* two

### References

* Fiji Hindi Dictionary
* Siegel, Jeff (1977) Say it in Fiji Hindi, Australia: Pacific Publications, →ISBN, page 28

## Istriot
### Alternative forms

* duj

### Etymology

From Latin duo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /duj/

### Numeral

dui
* two

## Kalo Finnish Romani
### Etymology

From Sanskrit द्व (dva), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *dwáH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dwáH, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Cognates include Hindi दो (do).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdui̯/

### Numeral

dui
* (cardinal numbers) two

### References

* ↑ “duj” in Finnish Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.
* ↑ Kimmo Granqvist (2011) “Numeraalit [Numerals]”, in Lyhyt Suomen romanikielen kielioppi [Consice grammar of Finnish Romani]‎ (in Finnish), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland, →ISBN, →ISSN, retrieved February 19, 2022, page 86

## Mandarin
### Romanization

dui
* Nonstandard spelling of duī.
* Nonstandard spelling of duǐ.
* Nonstandard spelling of duì.

#### Usage notes

* Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

## Old French
### Numeral

dui
* nominative of deus
** c. 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan, Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, page 194, line 2455:Li dui frere i furent ocisThe two brothers were killed there

## Rohingya
### Etymology

From Sanskrit द्व (dva, “two”).

### Numeral

dui (Hanifi spelling 𐴊𐴟𐴙)
* two

## Sicilian
### Alternative forms

* du (before a noun)
* rui, ru (forms with rotacism)

### Etymology

From Latin duae, feminine plural of duo.

### Numeral

dui
* two
    du cani ― two dogs
    Nni pigghiau dui. ― He/she took two (of them).

## Southeastern Tepehuan
### Etymology

Cognate with O'odham jui (“a type of prickly pear”).

### Noun

dui
* plum

### References

* R. de Willett, Elizabeth, et al. (2016) Diccionario tepehuano de Santa María Ocotán, Durango (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 48)‎ (in Spanish), electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 53

## Ye'kwana
### Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *rui; compare Apalaí ryxi, rui, Kari'na yryi, yrui, Akawaio rui, Macushi rui, Pemon rui, Yao (South America) huoroye.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [duj]

### Noun

dui (obligatorily possessed; possessed dui)
* older brother (of a man)
* older male parallel cousin (of a man)

#### Derived terms

* duichö

### References

* Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “dui”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon, page 115
* Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, pages 62–65, 68: “dui”