yi

See also: Appendix:Variations of "yi"

Translingual

Symbol

yi

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Yiddish.

English

Etymology 1

From Ukrainian ї (ji).

Letter

yi (lower case, upper case YI, plural yis or yi's)

  1. The Cyrillic letter Ї ї, used in the Ukrainian and Rusyn alphabets.

Etymology 2

From Armenian յի (yi).

Letter

yi (lower case, upper case YI, plural yis or yi's)

  1. The Armenian letter Յ, յ.

Afar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈji/, [ˈjɪ]

Determiner

  1. my

See also

References

  • E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “yi”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie), Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Cameroon Pidgin

Pronunciation

Pronoun

yi

  1. 3rd person singular object personal pronoun

Usage notes

This is likely to have an animate referent, while the clitic -am is employed for an inanimate referent.

See also

Determiner

yi

  1. 3rd person singular possessive determiner

See also

Dama (Sierra Leone)

Noun

yi

  1. Alternative form of ji

Dazaga

Noun

yi

  1. water

References

  • Charles Le Coeur, Marguerite Le Coeur, Grammaire et textes teda-daza (1956)
  • Herrmann Jungraithmayr, Daniel Barreteau, Uwe Seibert, L'homme et l'eau dans le bassin du lac Tchad (1997), page 75: Teda, Daza yi

Japanese

Romanization

yi

  1. Rōmaji transcription of 𛀆
  2. Rōmaji transcription of 𛄠
  3. Rōmaji transcription of いぃ
  4. Rōmaji transcription of イィ

Lashi

Etymology 1

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ray, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rya-t. Cognates include Burmese ရယ် (rai) and Sichuan Yi (yy).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ji˧/, [ji˨˧]

Verb

yi

  1. (intransitive) to laugh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jḭː˧/

Verb

yi

  1. (intransitive) to go
    Sara jung hkyo yi bye.The teacher has gone to school. (Quoting Luk, p. 26)
Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jiː˧/

Noun

yi

  1. necklace

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ji˧/, [ji˧]

Particle

yi

  1. Used to mark the plural of a noun depicting a human being.
    Hit mo jocang yi myócò nyit.There are many children here. (Quoting Luk, p. 119)

References

  • Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid, Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis), pages 15,

Mandarin

Romanization

yi

  1. Nonstandard spelling of .
  2. Nonstandard spelling of .
  3. Nonstandard spelling of .
  4. Nonstandard spelling of .

Usage notes

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Middle English

Determiner

yi

  1. (chiefly Northern and northern East Midland dialectal) Alternative form of þi (thy)

Murrinh-Patha

Conjunction

yi

  1. and

References

  • Mark Abley, Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages (2003)

Norman

Alternative forms

  • ieil (Guernsey)
  • u (continental Normandy)

Etymology

From older *ye, from Old French ueil, from Vulgar Latin oclus, from Latin oculus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- (eye; to see).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ji/
  • (Sark) IPA(key): /jɪ/
  • (file)

Noun

yi m (plural ièrs)

  1. (Jersey, anatomy) eye
  2. (Jersey) opening of lobster pot

Synonyms

Derived terms

Salar

Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *yāy. Compare to Kyrgyz жай (jay).

Noun

yi (3rd person possessive [please provide], plural [please provide])

  1. summer

Etymology 2

From Proto-Turkic *yē-. Cognate with Turkmen iýmek.

Pronunciation

Salar dialects:[1]

Verb

yi

  1. to eat

References

  1. 马伟 (Ma Wei), 朝克 (Chao Ke) (2016), yi”, in 濒危语言——撒拉语研究 [Endangered Languages ​​- Salar Language Studies], 青海 (Qinghai): 国家社会科学基金项目 (National Social Science Foundation Project), page 283
  • 林 (Lin), 莲云 (Lianyun) (1985), ji-”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar], Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, →OCLC, page 29

Tedaga

Noun

yi

  1. water

References

  • Charles Le Coeur, Marguerite Le Coeur, Grammaire et textes teda-daza (1956)
  • Herrmann Jungraithmayr, Daniel Barreteau, Uwe Seibert, L'homme et l'eau dans le bassin du lac Tchad (1997), page 75: Teda, Daza yi

Toba

Noun

yi

  1. older/elder brother

References

  • María Belén Carpio; Marisa Censabella (2012), “Clauses as noun modifiers in Toba”, in Bernard Comrie; Zarina Estrada Fernández, editor, Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas, →ISBN

Wutunhua

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Etymology

From Mandarin ().

Pronunciation

Numeral

yi

  1. one
    Synonym: yi-zek

References

  • Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun, University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN

Yoruba

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jí/

Noun

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter Y.

See also

  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jí/

Verb

  1. (transitive) to topple
  2. (intransitive) to be toppled

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jí/

Verb

  1. (intransitive) to rotate
Derived terms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jī/

Verb

yi

  1. (intransitive) to be tough
Derived terms
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