# toi
## 'Are'are
### Noun

toi
* penis

### References

* Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

## Asturian
### Verb

toi
* first-person singular present indicative of tar

## Dalmatian
### Etymology

From Latin tū.

### Pronoun

toi
* (second-person singular pronoun, oblique case) you, thee

#### Related terms

* te

## Finnish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtoi̯/, [ˈt̪o̞i̯]
* Rhymes: -oi
* Hyphenation: toi

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *too. -i is probably from the plural form noi.

#### Pronoun

toi (colloquial)
* Synonym of tuo (“that”).

##### Usage notes

* Not used in written text, except within quotations.

##### Declension

This word could be considered to belong to declension type 19 (suo), except that the singular and plural forms come from different sources, so the declension can be called irregular. The forms in brackets are never or very rarely used.
Declension of toi (type 19/suo)
noun case
singular
pluraladverbial form
singular
plural
nominative
toi
noisuperessive
genitive
ton
noiden noittendelative
partitive
tota
noitasublative
tonne
accusative
ton
noilative
inessive
tossa
noissatemporal
tollon tolloin
elative
tosta
noistacausative
illative
tohon
noihinmultiplicative
adessive
tolla
noilladistributive
ablative
tolta
noiltatemp. dist.
allative
tolle
noilleprolative
essive
tona
noinasituative
translative
toksi
noiksioppositive
abessive
(totta)
(noitta)
instructive
noin
comitative
noine :

#### Further reading

* “toi”, 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 2023-07-01

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

toi
* third-person singular past indicative of tuoda

## French
### Alternative forms

* toé (Quebec, colloquial)

### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French toi, tei, from Old French tei, te, from Latin tē.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /twa/
* (Quebec, informal) IPA: /twe/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: toit, toits, toua, touas, touât

### Pronoun

toi
* you (informal second-person singular personal pronoun)
    J’ai besoin de toi. ― I need you
    Et toi, ça va comment ?And you, how are you?
    Souviens-toi de ce qui est vraiment important.Remember what is really important.
    Attends, tu m’as dit qu’il y a dans cette maison plus de deux-cents livres. Est-ce qu’ils sont tous à toi ?Wait, you told me that there are more than two hundred books in this house. Are they all yours?
    Toi, t’es quelque chose de différent.You are something different.
** Psalm 71:5:
    Car tu es mon espérance, Seigneur Éternel! En toi je me confie dès ma jeunesse.For you are my hope, Eternal Lord! In you I entrust myself since my youth.
** 1996, Herman Melville, translated by Lucien Jacques, Joan Smith, and Jean Giono, Moby Dick, Gallimard, →ISBN, page 722:Oh, Achab, cria Starbuck, il n’est pas trop tard, même maintenant, le troisième jour, pour renoncer. Vois, Moby Dick ne te cherche pas. C’est toi, toi qui la cherches follement."Oh, Ahab," cried Starbuck, "it's not too late, even now, on the third day, to give up. See, Moby Dick isn't looking for you. It is you, you who seeks her madly."

#### Synonyms

* tézigue (argot)

#### Derived terms

* après toi

#### Related terms

| Number | Person | Gender | Nominative (subject) | Accusative (direct complement) | Dative (indirect complement) | Locative (at) | Genitive (of) | Disjunctive (tonic) |
| Singular | First | — | je, j’ | me, m’ | me, m’ | — | — | moi |
| Singular | Second | — | tu | te, t’ | te, t’ | — | — | toi |
| Singular | Third | Masculine | il | le, l’ | lui | y | en | lui |
| Singular | Third | Feminine | elle | la, l’ | lui | y | en | elle |
| Singular | Third | Indeterminate | on$^1$ | — | — | — | — | — |
| Singular | Third | Reflexive | — | se, s’$^4$ | se, s’$^4$ | — | — | soi$^4$ |
| Plural | First | — | nous | nous | nous | — | — | nous |
| Plural | Second | — | vous$^2$ | vous$^2$$^{,3}$ | vous$^2$$^{,3}$ | — | — | vous$^2$ |
| Plural | Third | Masculine | ils$^3$ | les | leur | y | en | eux$^3$ |
| Plural | Third | Feminine | elles | les | leur | y | en | elles |
    $^1$ Also used as the first person plural.
    $^2$ Also used as the polite singular form.
    $^3$ Also used when a group has both men and women.
    $^4$ Also used as third person plural reflexive.

### Further reading

* “toi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* oit

## Italian
### Verb

toi
* (archaic) second-person singular present indicative of togliere

#### Synonyms

* togli

#### Derived terms

    to'

### Anagrams

* -ito, tio-

## Japanese
### Romanization

toi
* Rōmaji transcription of とい

## Maori
### Etymology 1

From tōihi “to split” with likely influence of tō “stalk”, see also relationship of koi and kōihi

#### Noun

toi
* tip, point
    Synonyms: koi, mata
* finger:
    toinui: thumb
    toiroa: middle finger
    toīti: little finger
    Synonyms: tō, matimati, koro

#### References

* ↑ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 525
* ↑ Taylor, Richard (1870) Maori and English Dictionary, page 73

### Etymology 2

Likely related to tuhi meaning “to draw” and “to point at something” (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Noun

toi
* knowledge, art

### Further reading

* Williams, Herbert William (1917) “toi”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, pages 505-6
* “toi” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

## Middle French
### Pronoun

toi
* Alternative form of toy

## Nefamese
### Etymology

From Assamese তই (toi)

### Pronoun

toi (plural tohot)
* (singular; very familiar, inferior) you

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* tei (Anglo-Norman)
* toy (Anglo-Norman or late Old French)

### Pronoun

toi
* you

#### Usage notes

* Similar in terms of usage to modern French toi except it may be used as a personal object pronoun where modern French would use te
    Ore ai aperte occasion De toi querre une question (modern French uses te poser une question).

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طوی (toy).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [toj]
* Rhymes: -oj

### Noun

toi n (plural toiuri)
* (in the singular, of an action or event) the culminating point
* (colloquial) center, heart
* scuffle, struggle, scramble
* (uncountable) a flock of birds

#### Declension
### References

* toi in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Samoan Plantation Pidgin
### Etymology

From Samoan toʻi.

### Noun

toi
* axe

#### Synonyms

* matau

### References

* Peter, Mühlhäusler (1983) “Samoan Plantation Pidgin English and the origin of New Guinea Pidgin”, in Ellen Woolford and William Washabaugh, editors, The Social Context of Creolization, Ann Arbor: Karoma, pages 28-76

## Sassarese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtoi/

### Adjective

toi
* masculine/feminine plural of tóiu

### Pronoun

toi
* masculine/feminine plural of tóiu

## Veps
### Etymology

From toda +‎ -i.

### Noun

toi
* supplier, provider
* caterer

#### Inflection
### References

* Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “поставщик”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika

## Vietnamese
### Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 災 (“disaster”, SV: tai).

### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [tɔj˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [tɔj˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [tɔj˧˧]

### Verb

toi • (𡳥, 𣩸, 𤻒, 𬆜)
* (of domestic animals) to die in epidemic
* (colloquial) to die
* (colloquial, of money, efforts, etc.) to be lost; to go to waste

## West Makian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈt̪o.i/

### Conjunction

toi
* if
    Synonyms: coba, kalau
    toi ipongi, ma tasagal yo ― if it rains, then I won't go

### References

* Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics