foki

English

Etymology

From Cantonese 夥記／伙记 (fo² gei³). Compare Chinese Pidgin English foki or fookee.

Pronunciation

• (Hong Kong) IPA^(key): /fɔki/

Noun

foki (plural fokis)

1. (Hong Kong, obsolete) staff; waiter
   • 1894 November 28, “The Winglok Street Outrage”, in Hongkong Telegraph, page 2:

     One of them took him by the queue and tied him to his fokis, while the other pointed a revolver at him and told him to keep quiet.

   • 1905 January 30, Hongkong Telegraph, page 4:

     FOR impersonating an emigrant before the Harbour Master, a foki in an immigration boarding-house at 291 Des Vœux Road, West, was to-day fined $100 and the accountant, and another foki for aiding and abetting, $50 and $25 respectively.

   • 1905 August 30, “Fokis Fight”, in China Mail, page 4:

     Something resembling a free fight occurred in Wing Lok Street last evening between the fokis employed at Nos 156 and 160.

   • 1918, South China Morning Post‎^[1]:

     A CHINESE man who had left a note at the scene of his crime pleaded guilty to stealing a quantity of clothing from five fokis. He was caught after he left a note, signed by himself, with his victims. He was sentenced to six weeks in prison.

   • 1946 June 9, Hongkong Telegraph‎^[2]:

     Cheung said that Gore, apparently under the influence of liquor, went to the Sun Sung Oot Cafe, Hennessy Road, and insisted on buying a piece of raw beef hung in the shop. Cheung, a foki, told him raw meat could not be sold and Gore threw the meat in his face.

   • 1946 September 5, Hongkong Telegraph‎^[3]:

     The company's representative pleaded the offence was unintentional as owing to holidays and busy hours the fokis was not informed of the ceiling price of that brand.

   • 1961 December 21, “Foki charged with giving false information”, in China Mail, page 12:

     Police charged this morning that a shop foki had spent $28,000 he told them had been stolen from him

2. (Hong Kong, obsolete) coworker

References

• Patrick J. Cummings, Hans-Georg Wolf (2011) A Dictionary of Hong Kong English: Words from the Fragrant Harbor, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 58

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfoki]
• Hyphenation: fo‧ki
• Rhymes: -ki

Etymology 1

fok (“degree; grade; cape”) ‎ -i (adjective-forming suffix)

Adjective

foki (not comparable)

1. relating to (……) cape

   Zöld-foki Köztársaság ― Republic of Cabo Verde (literally, “Republic of/at Green Cape”)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	foki	fokiak
accusative	fokit	fokiakat
dative	fokinak	fokiaknak
instrumental	fokival	fokiakkal
causal-final	fokiért	fokiakért
translative	fokivá	fokiakká
terminative	fokiig	fokiakig
essive-formal	fokiként	fokiakként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	fokiban	fokiakban
superessive	fokin	fokiakon
adessive	fokinál	fokiaknál
illative	fokiba	fokiakba
sublative	fokira	fokiakra
allative	fokihoz	fokiakhoz
elative	fokiból	fokiakból
delative	fokiról	fokiakról
ablative	fokitól	fokiaktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	fokié	fokiaké
non-attributive possessive - plural	fokiéi	fokiakéi

Related terms

• fokos

 

Etymology 2

foka (“[the] cape of ……”) ‎ -i (adjective-forming suffix), dropping the possessive suffix -a.

Adjective

foki (not comparable)

1. at, by, or relating to (the) cape of ……

   Jóreménység foki hajóút (from Jóreménység foka) ― a cruise at Cape of Good Hope

Usage notes

It is one of the few cases in Hungarian orthography when the deletion of the possessive suffix does not entail writing the resulting phrase in solid (in one word, as a compound) as a result of elision, as opposed to the regular case when e.g. the deletion of -e in [az] ablak üvege (“[the] pane of [the] window”) results in ablaküveg (“windowpane”). These exceptions involve the adjective-forming suffix -i and they include (belseje →) belseji, (eleje →) eleji, (kora →) kori (or regular korabeli), (vége →) végi, as well as geographical adjectives like (alja →) alji, (foka →) foki, (környéke →) környéki, (köze →) közi, (melléke →) melléki, (mente →) menti, (szöge →) szögi, and (vidéke →) vidéki. Other similar constructions include (napja →) napi (anyák/​háromkirályok/​halottak napi), (tere →) téri (e.g. Örs vezér, Rózsák, Hősök téri/terei, the latter form being ambiguous, possibly referring to multiple possessions), and (útja →) úti (e.g. Királyok úti). Most of these words may also have a meaning without an implicit possessive sense.

Declension

Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	foki	fokiak
accusative	fokit	fokiakat
dative	fokinak	fokiaknak
instrumental	fokival	fokiakkal
causal-final	fokiért	fokiakért
translative	fokivá	fokiakká
terminative	fokiig	fokiakig
essive-formal	fokiként	fokiakként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	fokiban	fokiakban
superessive	fokin	fokiakon
adessive	fokinál	fokiaknál
illative	fokiba	fokiakba
sublative	fokira	fokiakra
allative	fokihoz	fokiakhoz
elative	fokiból	fokiakból
delative	fokiról	fokiakról
ablative	fokitól	fokiaktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	fokié	fokiaké
non-attributive possessive - plural	fokiéi	fokiakéi

Icelandic

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

foki

1. indefinite dative singular of fok

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

foki m

1. (non-standard since 1984) indefinite plural of fokus

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Participle

foki

1. (non-standard since 2012) feminine of foken
2. (non-standard since 2012) neuter of foken

Verb

foki

1. (non-standard since 2012) supine of fyka and fyke

Etymology 2

Noun

foki n

1. (non-standard since 2012) definite plural of fok

Old Norse

Noun

foki

1. dative singular indefinite of fok n

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.ki/
• Rhymes: -ɔki
• Syllabification: fo‧ki

Noun

foki

1. inflection of foka:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Volapük

Noun

foki

1. accusative singular of fok