gei

gei (plural geis)

1. Alternative form of gi (“martial arts uniform”)
   • 2003, James Henry Littlefield, Sweet Deal: A Trucker Deal Mystery, page 165:

     I peeled off the sweatshirt and Smith got out of the gei, so we sat there, me in my colorful board shorts, Clarke in a white martial-arts uniform and black belt, Smith in a black Speedo, and Jason in his black muscle-T.

   • 2006, Jackie Grant Miller, Keeper of the Arts: The Story Begins..., page 17:

     The uniform you see me wearing is called a Gei which all students are required to practice in.

• IgE, Ige

gei

1. Soft mutation of kei.

Borrowed from English gay.

gei (genitive gei, partitive geid)

1. a gay person

   Kas sa oled gei?

   Are you gay?

Declension of gei (ÕS type 26/koi, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		gei	geid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	gei
genitive			geide
partitive		geid	geisid
illative		geisse	geidesse
inessive		geis	geides
elative		geist	geidest
allative		geile	geidele
adessive		geil	geidel
ablative		geilt	geidelt
translative		geiks	geideks
terminative		geini	geideni
essive		geina	geidena
abessive		geita	geideta
comitative		geiga	geidega

• homo
• homoseksuaal
• homoseksuaalne
• homoseksuaalsus

Italianized form of English jay.

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛj/
• Rhymes: -ɛj
• Hyphenation: gèi

gei m (invariable)

1. Synonym of i lunga

gei

1. Rōmaji transcription of げい
2. Rōmaji transcription of ゲイ

gei

1. second-person singular imperative of geien

gei

1. Nonstandard spelling of gěi.
2. Nonstandard spelling of gèi.

• 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.

gei

1. husk

gei

1. imperative of geie

Borrowed from English gay.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡei/ [ˈɡei̯]
• Rhymes: -ei

gei m or f by sense (plural geis)

1. Humorous spelling of gay

gei m or f (masculine and feminine plural geis)

1. Humorous spelling of gay

• IPA^(key): /ɡei̯/

gei

1. Soft mutation of cei.

From original gai, recorded in van der Crab's De Moluksche Eilanden's wordlist (as gaie).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡe.i/

gei

1. (stative) alternative form of gai (“dead”)

Conjugation of gei (stative verb)
		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		tigei	migei	agei
2nd person		nigei	figei
3rd person	inanimate	igei	digei
	animate	magei
imperative		—, gei	—, gei

• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎^[1], Pacific linguistics