uni

Clipping of university.

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈjuː.niː/

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uni (plural unis)

1. (colloquial, chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada) University.

   I'm going to uni after I leave school.

   Turn left when you reach the uni.

Canadian usage is limited to prepositional phrases like to uni or at uni and cannot be used as a countable noun (as in *the uni or *unis).

Borrowed from Japanese 雲丹.

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈuː.niː/

uni (uncountable)

1. Sea urchin eaten as sushi.
   • 2013 July 16, Ken Belson, “In Japan, Searching for Prized Sea Urchins”, in The New York Times‎:

     The ikura popped in my mouth, the hotate was buttery soft and the uni was creamy and sweet without a seafood aftertaste, the kind of freshness I was hoping we would encounter when we left Tokyo.

• NUI, Niu

uni

1. water

• Čestmír Loukotka, ‎Johannes Wilbert (editor), Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968, Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, University of California), page(s) ?
• native-languages.org

uni

1. water
2. river

• Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Robert M. W. Dixon, Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance (2006, →ISBN

uni (not comparable)

1. plain, monocoloured

From Proto-Finno-Permic *une, cognate to Finnish uni, Votic uni, Ludian uńi, and Erzya он (on, “dream”).

uni (genitive une, partitive und)

1. sleep

   Mul ei tule und.

   I can't sleep (lit. "Sleep is not coming on me")

2. dream

   Ma nägin unes suurt põtra.

   I saw a big elk in my dream.

• unenägu

From Proto-Finno-Permic *une.

• IPA^(key): /ˈuni/, [ˈuni]
• Hyphenation: u‧ni

uni

1. dream (imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping; neutral term, not implied positive)
2. sleep (state of reduced consciousness)

• (dream) unennäkö
• (sleep) unitila

• märkä uni
• nähdä unta (“to have a dream”)
• olla unten mailla (“to be in the Land of Nod, in sleepland”)
• saada unen päästä kiinni (“can get to sleep”) (literally: to be able to catch sleep)

  En saanut unen päästä kiinni.

  I could not get sleep.

• uneksia
• unelias
• unelma
• unessa (“asleep”)
• syvässä unessa (“sound asleep”)
• uneton
• unien selittäminen, unista ennustaminen (“oneiromancy”)
• uninen
• unikko

• painajainen

• uin

• IPA^(key): /y.ni/

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• Rhymes: -i

uni m (feminine singular unie, masculine plural unis, feminine plural unies)

1. past participle of unir

uni (feminine singular unie, masculine plural unis, feminine plural unies)

1. united

Clipping of université. Compare standard French univ.

uni f (plural unis)

1. (Switzerland, informal) university

   Synonyms: univ, fac

• nui

• “uni” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

uni

1. sound; noise; voice

uni

1. union (The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one)

uni

1. dream
2. sleep

uni

1. Rōmaji transcription of うに
2. Rōmaji transcription of ウニ

uni (genitive unen, partitive undu)

1. dream
2. sleep

uni (invariable)

1. every

Inflected form of ūnus (“one”)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈuː.niː/

ūnī

1. nominative masculine plural of ūnus
2. dative masculine singular of ūnus
3. dative feminine singular of ūnus
4. dative neuter singular of ūnus

uni

1. water

• Robert Gordon Latham, Elements of Comparative Philology

uni

1. water
2. river

• Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Robert M. W. Dixon, Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance (2006, →ISBN
• Lińguas arawak da Amazônia setentrional (2001), page 570 (úuni)

uni

1. Second-person plural (vós) affirmative imperative of unir
2. First-person singular (eu) preterite indicative of unir

From un, or from Latin ūnīre, present active infinitive of ūniō.

a uni (third-person singular present unește, past participle unit) 4th conj.

1. to unite, merge, join

• dezuni

• unire

• unic
• un, unu

• IPA^(key): /ˈuni/

uni f (plural unis)

1. Clipping of universidad. uni

• úuni (húuni)

• IPA^(key): /uːni/

uni

1. water
2. waterway, river; body of water, lake; anything watery

• The precise meaning of the word is clarified by using classifiers.

• Languages of the Amazon (2012, →ISBN
• Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Robert M. W. Dixon, Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance (2006, →ISBN

Related to Finnish uni.

uni

1. sleep
2. dream

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

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɨ̞nɪ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈiːni/, /ˈɪni/

uni

1. second-person singular present/future of uno