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'goi' is a common misspelling of 'goy'
The correct spelling of 'goy'
ends with the letter 'y'.
This incorrect spelling 'goi'
ends with the letter 'i'.
'goi' Spelling Rule
In the early Modern English period, words ending in 'i' were changed to end in 'y'. For example, mani, veri, beauti and marri were changed to many, very, beauty and marry. This explains why some words containing a y, feature an i in their plural or past tense form. For example, try, tried; baby, babies; marry, marries.
Definition of 'goy' not 'goi'
Alternative forms
* Goy
* goi, Goi
Noun
A non-Jew, a Gentile.
* 1988 , :
- I don’t think that marriage is working, but I’m not going to be stupid about it and say she shouldn’t have married a goy .
Synonyms
* gentile
* minuth, minim
* oved elilim
* nokhri, nokhrim
* amme haaretz
* ger toshav
* apikorosim
* akum
* shegetz, shkotzim
Usage notes
* This noun is sometimes taken to be offensive; speakers wishing to avoid offense may prefer the term (gentile) (sometimes capitalized as (Gentile)) or simply (term).
Derived terms
* antigoyism
* anti-goyish
