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?

• 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

• 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”)

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