i

Lower case variation of upper case I, from Ancient Greek letter Ι (I, “Iota”).

i (lower case, upper case I)

1. The ninth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

i (upper case İ)

1. In the Turkish alphabet and its descendants, the lower-case form of dotted capital İ, which contrasts with ı as the lower-case form of dotless capital I.

• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Sſs  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter I):  Íí  Ìì  Ĭĭ  Îî  Ǐǐ  Ïï  Ḯḯ  Ĩĩ  Įį  Īī  Ỉỉ  Ȉȉ  Ȋȋ  Ịị  Ḭḭ  Ɨɨɨ̆  ᵻ  ᶖ   İi   Iı  Ɪɪ  Ｉｉ  fi  ffi  IJij  IJij
• (Letters with dot):  Ȧȧ  Ạạ  Ặặ  Ậậ  Ǡǡ  Ḃḃ  Ḅḅ  Ċċ  Ḋḋ  Ḍḍ  Ėė  Ẹẹ  Ḟḟ  Ġġ  Ḣḣ  Ḥḥ  Ii  İi  Iı  Ịị  Ḳḳ  Ḷḷ  Ṁṁ  Ṃṃ  Ṅṅ  Ṇṇ  Ȯȯ  Ọọ  Ợợ  Ṗṗ  Ṙṙ  Ṛṛ  Ṡṡ  Ṣṣ  ẛ  Ṫṫ  Ṭṭ  Ụụ  Ựự  Ṿṿ  Ẇẇ  Ẉẉ  Ẋẋ  Ẏẏ  Ỵỵ  Żż  Ẓẓ

Derived symbols

• j
• ɨ — IPA
• İ and ı — Turkish

Similar and related symbols

• Ι and ι — Greek
• І and і — Cyrillic I, used in Belarusian and Ukrainian
• Ӏ and ӏ — Cyrillic palochka, used in the Caucasian languages
• ا — Arabic (alif)
• 1 — Arabic numeral
• Ꭵ — Cherokee (IPA: ə̃)
• ᛁ — Runic
• ɪ — IPA

• (mathematics, imaginary number): Abbreviation of English imaginary.
• (engineering, electric current): Abbreviation of French intensité du courant; first used by M. André-Marie Ampère.
• (computer programming, generic index): Abbreviation of English index.
• (linguistics): Abbreviation of English identity.

• Pronunciation of IPA [iː]:

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i

1. (mathematics, often in italics or bold) The imaginary unit; a fixed square root of -1. Graphically, ${\displaystyle i}$ is shown on the vertical (y-axis) plane.

   Synonym: j

   a+bi with a is real part and b is imaginary part

2. (mathematics, often in bold) The unit vector in the x direction.

   Coordinate terms: j, k

3. (engineering, often in bold) The current flow in an electric circuit, frequently measured in amperes.

   v=ir (Ohm's Law)

4. (mathematics, programming) A common variable name representing a generic index, especially in loops.

   Synonym: j

6. January.

   Comeronyms: II, ii, 2; III, iii, 3; IV, iv, 4; V, v, 5; VI, vi, 6; VII, vii, 7; VIII, viii, 8; IX, ix, 9; X, x, 10; XI, xi, 11; XII, xii, 12

7. (IPA, romanization) a close front unrounded vowel.
8. (superscript ⟨ⁱ⟩, IPA) [i]-coloring, an [i] on-glide or off-glide (a diphthong), or a weak, fleeting, epenthetic or echo [i].
9. (international standards) transliterates Indic इ (or equivalent).
10. (financial mathematics) annual effective interest rate
11. (subscript, linguistics) indicates that two items are identical or coreferential (refer to the same thing). E.g. CV_iCV_i means a sequence of consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel, where the two V's are the same vowel; Sally_i ... she_i means that 'she' refers to 'Sally'. A second identity may be indicated with j.

Lower case form of upper case Roman numeral I, apparently derived from the shape of a notch scored across a tally stick.

• I, Ⅰ, ⅰ

i (lower case Roman numeral, upper case I)

1. cardinal number one
2. (music) minor tonic triad

• Next: ii (2)
• Roman numerals

• Letter styles
• Uppercase and lowercase versions of I, in normal and italic type
• Uppercase and lowercase I in Fraktur

Other representations of I:

From Latin i, minuscule of I.

• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /ə/, /aɪ/, /ɪ/, /i/, /iː/
• (letter name): enPR: ī, IPA^(key): /aɪ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪ
• Homophones: aye, eye

i (lower case, upper case I, plural is or i's)

1. The ninth letter of the English alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.

The English letter i represents many different sounds, often the diphthong /aɪ/ (from Middle English /iː/), as in the pronoun I, or /ɪ/ as in bit. In borrowings, it may represent /iː/ as well.

• (Latin script letters) letter; Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz

i (lower case, upper case I, plural is or i's)

1. The ninth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.

i (plural ies)

1. The name of the Latin script letter I/i.
   • the position of an i-dot (the dot of an i)
   • i-mutation, i-umlaut

• eye

• (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee/zed ^{(Category: en:Latin letter names)}

From Old English iċ.

• IPA^(key): /aɪ/
• Rhymes: -aɪ
• Homophones: aye, eye

i

1. (nonstandard) Alternative letter-case form of I.
   • 1762, Benj[amin] Stillingfleet, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Natural History, Husbandry, and Physick. To Which Is Added the Calendar of Flora., 2nd edition, London: […] R. and J. Dodsley, […]; S. Baker, […]; and T. Payne, […], pages 30 and 32:

     Here follow ſome few lines in the original, which not underſtanding i have omitted. […] Laſtly that amidſt ſo many viciſſitudes of fortune, to which I have been expoſed, amongſt all the goods, i ſay, and evils, the joyfull and gloomy, the pleaſing, and diſagreeable circumſtances of life, thou endowedſt me with an equal, conſtant, manly, and ſuperior ſpirit on every occaſion.

   • 2021 January 26, Travis M. Andrews, “‘When covid is over’ sounds like ‘when I meet Harry Styles’: The new pandemic meme, explained”, in The Washington Post‎^[5], archived from the original on 27 January 2021:

     As YouTuber Alex Elmslie tweeted, “ ‘once COVID is over’ is starting to sound a lot like ‘when i fix my sleep schedule.’ ”

• Also used in instant messaging due to limitations of entering capitals on a mobile phone's keypad.
• Sometimes to indicate informality, primarily in typed media

• IPA^(key): [i]

• Audio:

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i

1. water

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

i

1. I

   I suɔ mo. ― I love you.

• IPA^(key): [i]

i (lower case, upper case I)

1. The thirteenth letter of the Albanian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) shkronjë; A a, B b, C c, Ç ç, D d, Dh dh, E e, Ë ë, F f, G g, Gj gj, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, Ll ll, M m, N n, Nj nj, O o, P p, Q q, R r, Rr rr, S s, Sh sh, T t, Th th, U u, V v, X x, Xh xh, Y y, Z z, Zh zh

i m

1. masculine singular preposition
2. of (+ dative)

   Fisi i Malësorëve. ― The tribe of Highlanders.

   Fisi i Malësorëvet. ― The tribe of the Highlanders.

i m

1. masculine singular nominative adjectival article
2. the

   Shkurt. I shkurt. I shkurti. ― Short. Short one. The short one. or Short. Shorty. The shorty.

   Madh. I madhi zot. / Zoti i madh. ― Great. The great god.

See Appendix:Albanian adjectival articles for other forms.

i (Gheg)

1. dialectal form of një

• e, të, së

i (unstressed)

1. I (first-person singular pronoun)

   Synonym: (stressed) ich

• IPA^(key): /ĩː/

i

1. tooth

i

1. water

• Paul Ehrenreich, Materialien zur Sprachenkunde Brasiliens IV: Vocabulare der Guajajara und Anambē (Para) (1895) (i)
• Wolf Dietrich, Correspondências fonológicas e lexicais entre Karitiána (Arikém, Tupí) e Tupí-Guaraní (y)

i

1. he
2. his
3. she
4. hers
5. it
6. its

i

1. water

• Eliete de Jesus Bararuá Solano, Descrição gramatical da Língua Araweté, page 80, 2009

i

1. water

• Čestmír Loukotka, Documents et vocabulaires inédits de langues et de dialectes Sud Américains, JSAP 52: 7-60 (1963), page 44

• IPA^(key): /ˈi/ [ˈi]
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: i

i (i (or -i), plural is/ios or -is/-ios)

1. obsolete spelling of y

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /ɪ/

i (lower case, upper case İ)

1. The fourteenth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

• (Latin script letters) hərf; Aa, Bb, Cc, Çç, Dd, Ee, Əə, Ff, Gg, Ğğ, Hh, Xx, Iı, İi, Jj, Kk, Qq, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Öö, Pp, Rr, Ss, Şş, Tt, Uu, Üü, Vv, Yy, Zz

í

1. thou, you (singular)

• IPA^(key): /i/

i (lower case, upper case I)

1. The ninth letter of the Basque alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) A a, B b, C c, (Ç ç), D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L, l, M m, N n, Ñ ñ, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, (Ü ü), V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

i (indeclinable)

1. The name of the Latin script letter I/i.

• (Latin-script letter names) a, be, ze, de, e, efe, ge, hatxe, i, jota, ka, ele, eme, ene, eñe, o, pe, ku, erre, ese, te, u, uve, uve bikoitz, ixa, i greko, zeta

• y (Niederbayerisch)

From Middle High German ich, from Old High German ih, from Proto-West Germanic *ik. Cognates include German ich and Yiddish איך (ikh).

• IPA^(key): /i(ː)/, (stressed) [iː], (unstressed) [ɪ], [e]

i

1. I

   Wenn i an Fisch gern essad, kaffad i'n. ― If I like to eat the fish, I would buy it.

   • 2013, “I halts nit aus [I can't endure it]”, performed by Hannah:

     I halts nit aus, des Scheißgefühl, i kann di doch liaben wann und wo i will!

     I can't endure this shitty feeling, I can, after all, love you when and where I want!

i

1. Separates the subject of a sentence from the predicate, used when the subject is a pronoun or a noun

• IPA^(key): /iː/

i

1. tree

• je (rare)

From Old French je, from Vulgar Latin eo, from Latin ego. Near cognates include Franc-Comtois i and standard French je.

i

1. I

   I panse qu'i seus maulaide. ― I think that I'm sick.

   I t'aime. ― I love you.

2. we

See Appendix:Bourguignon personal pronouns.

• IPA^(key): /ì/

i

1. The augment for class 10 nouns.

• Justo Bolekia (2009), Diccionario español-bubi, Akal, →ISBN, page 22

• he, she, it (in higher registers closer to English with corresponding gender distinction)
• il, ele (Camfranglais with Romance gender distinction)

• IPA^(key): /i/

i

1. 3rd person singular subject personal pronoun

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈi]
• Homophone: hi
• Rhymes: -i

i (lower case, upper case I)

1. A letter of the Catalan alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.

i f (plural is)

1. The name of the Latin script letter I/i.

• i comercial
• i grega

Inherited from Old Catalan e, from Latin et.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [i]
• Homophone: hi
• Rhymes: -i

i

1. and; used to connect two similar words, phrases, sentences, etc.; as well as; together with; in addition to

   Hi ha moltes colomes i teuladins. ― There are many pigeons and sparrows.

   Ella escriu els articles i ell els il·lustra amb els seus dibuixos. ― She writes the articles and he illustrates them with his drawings.

• y (obsolete)
• e (medieval, obsolete)

• “i”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “i”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “i” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “i”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

From Proto-Oceanic *kutu.

i

1. louse

• Jim Hollyman,K. J. Hollyman, Études sur les langues du Nord de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, page 52, 1999

• IPA^(key): /i/

i (lower case, upper case I)

1. A letter of the Central Mazahua alphabet, written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) A a, Ⱥ ⱥ, A̱ a̱, B b, C c, Cꞌ cꞌ, Cj cj, Cu cu, Cꞌu cꞌu, Cju cju, Ch ch, Chꞌ chꞌ, Chj chj, D d, Dy dy, E e, Ɇ ɇ, E̱ e̱, G g, Gu gu, Hu hu, ꞌHu ꞌhu, I i, I̱ i̱, J j, Jꞌ jꞌ, Jm jm, Jn jn, Jñ jñ, Ju ju, Jy jy, L l, M m, Mꞌ mꞌ, N n, Nꞌ nꞌ, Ñ ñ, Ñꞌ ñꞌ, O o, Ø ø, O̱ o̱, P p, Pj pj, R r, S s, T t, Tꞌ tꞌ, Tj tj, Ts ts, Tsꞌ tsꞌ, Tsj tsj, U u, Ꞹ ꞹ, U̱ u̱, X x, Z z, Zh zh, ꞌ

i

1. him
2. her
3. it

• ich (Sette Comuni)

From Middle High German ich, from Old High German ih, from Proto-West Germanic *ik. Cognate with German ich, English I.

i

1. (Luserna) I

   I hån an pruadar un a sbestar. ― I have a brother and a sister.

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

• IPA^(key): /iː/

ī

1. (transitive) to drink

• (Revived Late Cornish) jei

From Proto-Celtic *eyes. Cognate with Breton i, Irish and Scottish Gaelic iad, Manx ad, and Welsh hwy.

i

1. they (3rd person plural subject pronoun)

   I a welas.

   They saw.

2. their, they (3rd person plural enclitic pronoun, used to reinforce previous pronoun)

   aga lyver i

   their book

   Ple ethons i?

   Where did they go?

From the earlier li. Compare Italian i (“the”) and Romanian îi (“them”).

i m pl (masculine singular u, feminine singular a, feminine plural e)

1. the (masculine plural)

• Before a vowel, i turns into l'.

i m pl

1. them (direct object)

• Before a vowel, i turns into l'.

• https://infcor.adecec.net/

From Proto-Slavic *i.

• IPA^(key): /ɪ/

• Audio:

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i

1. and (also), and even

   Synonyms: (Moravian) aj, (Moravian) aji

2. even (implying an extreme example, used at the beginning of sentences)

   Synonyms: (Moravian) aj, (Moravian) aji

   I slepá veverka někdy najde ořech. ― Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes.

• “i”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “i”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

From Latin illī, nominative masculine plural of ille. Compare Italian i, gli.

i

1. the; masculine plural definite article

• el
• la
• le

Likely cognate with Vai [script needed] (i, “you”).

i

1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
   1. I (first-person singular personal pronoun)
   2. you (second-person singular person pronoun)

The rememberer who glossed this word did so as "I", but Dalby proposes that this is an error, based on the Vai pronouns.

• Dalby, T. D. P. (1963), “The extinct language of Dama”, in Sierra Leone Language Review, volume 2, Freetown: Fourah Bay College, pages 50–54

• Rhymes: -i
• Homophone: I
• Rhymes: -iː

From Old Norse í, from Proto-Germanic *in, from Proto-Indo-European *en.

i

1. in, inside
2. Indicates exponentiation.

   tre i femte ― three to the power of five (Short for tre i femte potens (“three in fifth power”); note that the exponent is in the ordinal form.)

3. for (some duration)

   Jeg har boet her i tre år. ― I have lived here for three years.

4. Used to indicate a past time or period when something took place.

   Han fyldte seks år i mandags. ― He turned six years old on Monday.

5. Used to indicate regular presence in a location.

   Pigen går i gymnasiet og er 17 år. ― The girl goes to high school and is 17 years old.

6. Used in conjunction with time to indicate a number of minutes before a full hour.

   fem minutter i tolv ― five minutes to twelve

7. Used when indicating that something is happening or repeated a number of times within each time period.

   tre gange i timen ― three times an hour

8. Indicates affiliation with a profession.

   professor i fysik ― professor of physics

From Old Danish æ, e, from Old Norse æ, ei, ey, from Proto-Germanic *aiwi (“forever”), *aiwaz. May always be used as a prefix.

1=-

i

1. (archaic) always, forever

   Synonyms: altid, stedse, evig, bestandig, idelig

• “i” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

• IPA^(key): /i/

i

1. fish

• Tyron, D.T., Hackman, B. (1983), Solomon Islands languages: An internal classification. Cited in: "Dehu" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
• Leenhardt, M. (1946), Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "ⁿDe’u" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -i
• (letter name): IPA^(key): /i/
• Homophone: ie

i (lower case, upper case I)

1. The ninth letter of the Dutch alphabet, written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) letter; A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, IJ ij, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

From Old Norse í, from Proto-Germanic *in. Cognate with Swedish i.

i

1. in

• j- (before vowels)
• -i (after consonant)
• -j (after vowels)

From Latin illī (“they”) (nominative plural of ille).

• IPA^(key): /i/
• Hyphenation: i

i (personal)

1. (nominative case, masculine) they
2. (accusative case, masculine) them

(phoneme)

• IPA^(key): /i/

(letter)

• IPA^(key): /ˈi/

• Audio:

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i (lower case, upper case I)

1. The twelfth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.

• (Latin script letters) litero; Aa, Bb, Cc, Ĉĉ, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Ĝĝ, Hh, Ĥĥ, Ii, Jj, Ĵĵ, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Rr, Ss, Ŝŝ, Tt, Uu, Ŭŭ, Vv, Zz

i (accusative singular i-on, plural i-oj, accusative plural i-ojn)

1. The name of the Latin script letter I/i.

• (Latin-script letter names) litero; a, bo, co, ĉo, do, e, fo, go, ĝo, ho, ĥo, i, jo, ĵo, ko, lo, mo, no, o, po, ro, so, ŝo, to, u, ŭo, vo, zo

• “i”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “i”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈiː/

i (lower case, upper case I)

1. The ninth letter of the Estonian alphabet, called ii and written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) täht; A a, B b (C c), D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p (Q q), R r, S s, Š š, Z z, Ž ž, T t, U u, V v (W w), Õ õ, Ä ä, Ö ö, Ü ü (X x, Y y)

i

1. and

• e, y

From Old Galician-Portuguese e.

i

1. and (expressing two elements to be taken together)

For more quotations using this term, see Citations:i.

• IPA^(key): /iː/
• Homophone: y

i (lower case, upper case I)

1. The tenth letter of the Faroese alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.

• (Latin script letters) bókstavur; Aa, Áá, Bb, Dd, Ðð, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Íí, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Óó, Pp, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Úú, Vv, Yy, Ýý, Ææ, Øø

i n (genitive singular is, plural i)

1. The name of the Latin script letter I/i.

• (Latin-script letter names) bókstavur; a / fyrra a, á, be, de, edd, e, eff, ge, há, i / fyrra i, í / fyrra í, jodd, ká, ell, emm, enn, o, ó, pe, err, ess, te, u, ú, ve, seinna i, seinna í, seinna a, ø

The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on those of Swedish, German, and Latin, and was first used in the mid-16th century. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and i for information on the development of the glyph itself.

• (sound): IPA^(key): /i/

• Audio; “ii, Inari, liivi, ii”:

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i (lower case, upper case I)

1. The ninth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called ii and written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) kirjain; A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s (Š š), T t, U u, V v (W w), X x, Y y, Z z (Ž ž), Å å, Ä ä, Ö ö

i

1. eye
2. seventeen
3. twenty-one

• IPA^(key): /i/

• Audio:

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i (lower case, upper case I)

1. The ninth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.

• droit comme un i
• i grec
• mettre les points sur les i

From Latin illi.

i m pl (singular il)

1. the

i (third person masculine/ feminine indirect object)

1. to him
2. to her

• la, lis
• lui, jê, lu, le

i (lower case, upper case I)

1. A letter of the Fula alphabet, written in the Latin script.

• Common to all varieties of Fula (Fulfulde / Pulaar / Pular).

• (Latin-script letters) karfeeje; ', A a, B b, Mb mb, Ɓ ɓ, C c, D d, Nd nd, Ɗ ɗ, E e, F f, G g, Nd nd, Ɠ ɠ, H h, I i, J j, Nj nj, K k, L l, M m, N n, Ŋ ŋ, Ñ ñ, Ɲ ɲ, O o, P p, R r, S s, T t, U u, W w, Y y, Ƴ ƴ

• IPA^(key): /ˈi/

i (lower case, upper case I)

1. The ninth letter of the Galician alphabet, written in the Latin script.

i m (plural is)

1. The name of the Latin script letter I/i.

• (Latin-script letters) letra; A a (Á á), B b, C c, D d, E e (É é), F f, G g, H h, I i (Í í, Ï ï), L l, M m, N n, Ñ ñ, O o (Ó ó), P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u (Ú ú, Ü ü), V v, X x, Z z
• (Latin-script letter names) letra; a, be, ce, de, e, efe, gue, hache, i, ele, eme, ene, eñe, o, pe, que, erre, ese, te, u, uve, xe, ceta / zeta

• y

• IPA^(key): [j]

i

1. an antihiatical particle that, due to sandhi, can precede a word which begins with a vowel sound after a word which ends with vowel sound; now rarely represented in written language
   • 1594, anonymous author, Entremés dos pastores:

     Ay Jan cata non te enfermes, nen sentencies con malicia, cata que a yalma perdes.

     Oh, Xan, watch out, don't get sick, nor sentence with meanness, watch out that your soul you're losing

• id

Inherited from Proto-Berber. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Perhaps a conflation of multiple prepositions.”)

• (Iɛraben) IPA^(key): [i]

i

1. (only with nouns and pronouns) and

   Synonym: (only with clauses) u

   Ssbeɛ mac a cc acnikef id ugdi. ― The lion is going to eat the hedgehog and the jackal.

2. (comitative) at, with

   Idda-d i umdakkul nnes. ― He came with his friend.

3. (dative) to, for

   Idda ifk-as-t i ya tmeṭṭut. ― He gave it to a woman.

Nouns following this preposition are placed in the annexed state.

• Mourigh, Khalid (2015) A Grammar of Ghomara Berber (Thesis)‎^[6], Leiden

i

1. romanization of 𐌹

From Portuguese ele.

i

1. he, she (third person singular).

From Portuguese e. Cognate with Spanish y.

i

1. and

• IPA^(key): /i/

i

1. (Okap) he, she, it

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[7], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 80

From Proto-Polynesian *i.

• IPA^(key): /i/

i

1. used to mark the following (noun or noun phrase) as a direct object

   Ua ʻai ka pōpoki i ka ʻiole. ― The cat ate the mouse.

2. used to indicate past tense (precedes verb)

   I hana au. ― I worked.

3. used to indicate perfect participle (precedes verb)

   i haʻalele ― having left, who had left

i

1. in, at
2. (indicating destination) to

• iā

• (phoneme): IPA: [ˈi]
• (letter name): IPA: [ˈi]

i (lower case, upper case I)

1. The fifteenth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) betű; A a, Á á, B b, C c, Cs cs, D d, Dz dz, Dzs dzs, E e, É é, F f, G g, Gy gy, H h, I i, Í í, J j, K k, L l, Ly ly, M m, N n, Ny ny, O o, Ó ó, Ö ö, Ő ő, P p, R r, S s, Sz sz, T t, Ty ty, U u, Ú ú, Ü ü, Ű ű, V v, Z z, Zs zs. Only in the extended alphabet: Q q W w X x Y y. Commonly used: ch. Also defined: à ë. In surnames (selection): ä aa cz ds eé eö ew oe oó th ts ÿ.

• i in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

• (letter name) IPA^(key): /ɪː/

i (lower case, upper case I)

1. The eleventh letter of the Icelandic alphabet, written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) bókstafur; A a, Á á, B b, D d, Рð, E e, É é, F f, G g, H h, I i, Í í, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, Ó ó, P p, R r, S s, T t, U u, Ú ú, V v, X x, Y y, Ý ý, Þ þ, Æ æ, Ö ö

• (context pronunciation, letter name) IPA^(key): /i/

i (lower case, upper case I)

1. The ninth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) litero; A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L, l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

• IPA^(key): /i/

i (lower case, upper case I)

1. The twelfth letter of the Igbo alphabet, written in the Latin script.

• ị (retracted tongue position)

• IPA^(key): /i/

i (dependent form, independent form gị)

1. (personal) you (singular)

   Kedụ ka i mere?

   How are you?

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /i/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /i/, /ɪ/

i (lower case, upper case I)

1. The ninth letter of the Indonesian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) huruf; A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

Borrowed from Russian и (i).

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈi/, [ˈi]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈi/, [ˈi]
• (Hevaha) IPA^(key): /ˈi/, [ˈi]
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: i

i

1. and

   Miä läkkään ižoraks i soomeks. ― I speak Ingrian and Finnish.

   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 19:

     Repo i kana.

     A fox and a hen.

• ja, da

i

1. also, as well, too

   Mut, miä läkkään i viroks. ― But, I speak Estonian, too.

   • 1885, “Sprachproben: Der goldene Vogel”, in Volmari Porkka, editor, Ueber den Ingrischen Dialekt mit Berücksichtigung der übrigen finnisch-ingermanländischen Dialekte:

     Mäni da i heittiis makkaamaa, ja makkais taas hoomuksee nasse.

     He went and threw himself to sleep, too, and he slept up till the morning again.

     (Note: The spelling has been normalised in accordance with the literary Ingrian language.)

   • 1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[8], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 3:

     Iƶorat laatiit kansan, kumpa keelen poolest kuuluu läns-fenniläisiin kansoin gruppaa ja sil viisii i iƶoroin keeli kuuluu läns-fenniläisee keelisisteemaa.

     The Ingrians make up a people, that based on their language belongs to the group of Finnic peoples and as such the language of Ingrians also belongs to the Finnic language family.

• kera, tože, ja

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 86
• Arvo Laanest (1997), Isuri keele Hevaha murde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut, page 44
• Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014), Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎^[9], →ISBN, page 79

• in (used before vowels in place of eclipsis; also used before bhur (“your”, pl), dhá (“two”), titles of books, films, and the like, and foreign words that resist mutation)

From Old Irish i, from Proto-Celtic *eni (compare Welsh yn), from Proto-Indo-European *en (compare English in, Latin in, Ancient Greek ἐν (en)).

• IPA^(key): /ɪ/, /ə/^[1]

i (plus dative, triggers eclipsis, before the definite article s-, ins)

1. in

• See also Category:Irish phrasal verbs formed with "i"

Reduced form of gli, from earlier li, from Latin illī (nominative plural and dative singular of ille).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /i/
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: i

i m pl (singular il)

1. the

• i is used before masculine plural words beginning with a single consonant other than x or z, or the plural noun dei; gli is used before masculine plural words beginning with a vowel, x, z, gn, or multiple consonants including pn, ps, and s+consonant, and before the plural noun dei.

• dei

From Latin ī (the name of the letter I).

• IPA^(key): /ˈi/^*
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: ì

i f or m (lower case, upper case I, invariable)

1. The ninth letter of the Italian alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.

i f (invariable)

1. The name of the Latin script letter I/i.; i

• i lunga

• (Latin-script letter names) lettera; a, bi, ci, di, e, effe, gi, acca, i, i lunga, kappa, elle, emme, enne, o, pi, cu, erre, esse, ti, u, vu, doppia vu, ics, ipsilon, zeta