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Translingual
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Belarusian
Pronunciation
- (phoneme) IPA(key): /i/
Letter
і • (i) (lower case, upper case І)
See also
Etymology 2
From Proto-Slavic *i, from Proto-Indo-European *ei, an early locative singular determiner, formed from the root *h₁e-, *h₁o-. Compare Ancient Greek εἰ (ei, “if”), Gothic 𐌴𐌹 (ei, “and, so that, be it”). Follows from ablative Proto-Indo-European *ed.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ji]
Carpathian Rusyn
Etymology 1
From Proto-Slavic *i, from Proto-Indo-European *ei, an early locative singular determiner, formed from the root *h₁e-, *h₁o-. Compare Ancient Greek εἰ (ei, “if”), Gothic 𐌴𐌹 (ei, “and, so that, be it”). Follows from ablative Proto-Indo-European *ed.
Synonyms
- а (a)
Kazakh
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Arabic | ى ,ٸ |
Cyrillic | і |
Latin | ı |
Yañalif | j |
Pronunciation
- (phoneme) IPA(key): /ɘ/
Letter
і • (ı) (lower case, upper case І)
Khakas
Letter
і • (ì) (lower case, upper case І)
Old Church Slavonic
Letter
і • (i) (lower case, upper case І)
See also
- (Old Cyrillic-script letters) А а, Б б, В в, Г г, Д д, Е е (Є є), Ж ж, Ѕ ѕ (Ꙃ ꙃ), З з (Ꙁ ꙁ), И и, І і (Ї ї), Ꙉ ꙉ, К к, Л л, М м, Н н, О о, П п, Р р, С с, Т т, Оу оу (Ꙋ ꙋ), Ф ф, Х х, Ѡ ѡ (Ѿ ѿ), Ц ц, Ч ч, Ш ш, Щ щ, Ъ ъ, Ꙑ ꙑ, Ь ь, Ѣ ѣ, Ꙗ ꙗ, Ѥ ѥ, Ю ю, Ѫ ѫ, Ѭ ѭ, Ѧ ѧ (Ꙙ ꙙ), Ѩ ѩ (Ꙝ ꙝ), Ѯ ѯ, Ѱ ѱ, Ѳ ѳ, Ѵ ѵ, Ҁ ҁ
Russian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [i]
Letter
і • (i) (lower case, upper case І)
- (obsolete) Letter dotted i (Cyrillic) (in Russian: и десятери́чное n (i desjateríčnoje, “i decimal”). Replaced by the letter И (I) in the spelling reform of 1917.
Ukrainian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [i]
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Letter
і • (i) (lower case, upper case І)
See also
Etymology 2
From Old Ukrainian и (i), from Proto-Slavic *i, from Proto-Indo-European *ei, an early locative singular determiner, formed from the root *h₁e-, *h₁o-. Compare Greek εἰ (ei, “if”), Gothic 𐌴𐌹 (ei, “and, so that, be it”). Follows from ablative Proto-Indo-European *ed.
Usage notes
Etymology 3
Primal interjection in response to pain, fear, surprise. Common to many languages.
References
- Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “і”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
Латинська абетка on the Ukrainian Wikipedia.Wikipedia uk