і
Translingual
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Alternative forms
- ї (orthographical variant)
Gallery
Regular.
Italics.
Belarusian
Pronunciation
- (phoneme) IPA(key): /i/
Letter
і • (i) (lower case, upper case І)
See also
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
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
| Alternative scripts | |
|---|---|
| Arabic | ى ,ٸ |
| Cyrillic | Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) |
| Latin | ı |
| Yañalif | j |
Pronunciation
- (phoneme) IPA(key): /ɘ/
Letter
і • (ı) (lower case, upper case І)
See also
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Khakas
Letter
і • (ì) (lower case, upper case І)
See also
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Old Church Slavonic
Letter
і • (i) (lower case, upper case І)
See also
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
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]
Audio (male) (file) Audio (female) (file)
Letter
і • (i) (lower case, upper case І)
See also
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
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
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
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
