í

See also: Appendix:Variations of "i"

í U+00ED, í LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE Composition: i [U+0069] + ◌́ [U+0301] ← ì [U+00EC] Latin-1 Supplement î → [U+00EE]

Translingual

Letter

í (upper case Í)

1. The letter i with an acute accent.

See also

• (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  ɪ  Ｉｉ  fi  ffi  IJij  IJij
• (Letters using acute accent or double acute accent):  Áá  Ắắ  Ấấ  Ǻǻ  Ćć  Ḉḉ  Éé  Ếế  Ǵǵ  Íí  Ḯḯ  Ḱḱ  Ĺĺ  Ḿḿ  Ńń  Óó  Őő  Ớớ  Ṍṍ  Ǿǿ  Ṕṕ  Ŕŕ  Śś  Úú  Űű  Ứứ  Ẃẃ  Ýý  Źź  Ǽǽ

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Boko

Noun

í

1. water

References

• V Vydrin, On the Problem of the Proto-Mande Homeland (JOLR, 2009)

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Bokobaru

Noun

í

1. water

References

• V Vydrin, On the Problem of the Proto-Mande Homeland (JOLR, 2009)

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Busa

Noun

í

1. water

References

• V Vydrin, On the Problem of the Proto-Mande Homeland (JOLR, 2009)

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Czech

Letter

í (lower case, upper case Í)

1. The sixteenth letter of the Czech alphabet, after i and before j

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Dakota

Noun

í

1. mouth

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Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʊiː/

  Rhymes: -ʊiː

  Homophones: ý, ið

Etymology 1

Letter

í (upper case Í)

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

See also

• (Latin-script letters) bókstavur; A a, Á á, B b, D d, Рð, E e, 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, Y y, Ý ý, Æ æ, Ø ø

Etymology 2

From Old Norse í, from Proto-Germanic *in, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én.

Alternative forms

• íggj

Preposition

í

1. (with accusative) in, into, during
2. (with dative) in

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈiː]

Letter

í (lower case, upper case Í)

1. The sixteenth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, after i and before j.

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse í, from Proto-Germanic *in, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iː/

  Rhymes: -iː

Preposition

í

1. (with accusative) in; to (direction)

   Ég geng í kirkjuna ― I walk to the church

2. (with dative) in (location)

   Hann er í húsinu ― He is in the house

3. (with accusative) for; over (spanning a time period)

   Við ókum í tvær klukkustundir ― We drove for two hours

Derived terms

Derived terms

• bölva í sand og ösku
• borga út í hönd
• breiðast út eins og eldur í sinu/fara eins og eldur í sinu
• elda ofan í
• falla allur ketill í eld
• fara í kringum
• fara í kringum eins og köttur í kringum heitan graut
• farðu í rassgat
• fela í sér
• fetta fingur út í
• ganga eins og í sögu

• ganga í kringum
• glugga í
• hafa bein í nefinu
• hafa mörg járn í eldinum
• höggva í spað
• hringja í
• í bráð
• íbúð
• í húð og hár
• í nafni

• í senn
• í símanum
• í sundur
• í trúnaði
• kaupa köttinn í sekknum
• láta í friði
• leiðast út í
• liggja í kör
• lofa upp í ermina
• morgunstund gefur gull í mund
• ná sér í

• setjast í helgan stein
• sinn er siður í landi hverju
• sjá í gegnum fingur við
• skara í eldinn
• spá í
• svara í sömu mynt
• takast í hendur
• tala í kringum
• toga í
• þykja súrt í broti

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Irish

Etymology

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iː/

Pronoun

í (emphatic form ise, disjunctive)

1. she, her
2. (referring to a feminine noun) it

See also

Irish personal pronouns

Number	Person (and gender)	Conjunctive (emphatic)	Disjunctive (emphatic)	Possessive determiner
Singular	First	mé (mise)		mo L m' before vowel sounds
	Second	tú (tusa)1	thú (thusa)	do L d' before vowel sounds
	Third masculine	sé (seisean)	é (eisean)	a L
	Third feminine	sí (sise)	í (ise)	a H
Plural	First	muid, sinn (muidne, muide), (sinne)		ár E
	Second	sibh (sibhse)1		bhur E
	Third	siad (siadsan)	iad (iadsan)	a E

^L Triggers lenition ^E Triggers eclipsis ^H Triggers h-prothesis

¹ Also used as the vocative

The reflexive is formed by adding féin to the relevant pronoun: e.g. "myself" = mé féin, "yourselves" = sibh féin.

Noun

í

1. Alternative form of uí (“grandson, descendant”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
í	n-í	hí	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

• hí

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iː/

Particle

í

1. deictic particle, used mostly in combination with the definite article or a demonstrative determiner/pronoun

Derived terms

• intí
• ísin

 

Further reading

• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “4 í, hí”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN
• Rudolf Thurneysen (1940, reprinted 2003)D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, §§ 474, 475.2, pages 299–301

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Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *in (“in, into”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én (“in”).

Preposition

í

1. (with dative) in remaining in a place
2. (with accusative) in motion towards a place

Derived terms

• í gegnum
• í milli

Descendants

• Icelandic: í
• Faroese: í, íggj
• Norwegian Nynorsk: i
• Norwegian Bokmål: i
• Swedish: i
• Danish: i

References

• “í” in: Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon — An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)

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Portuguese

Etymology

The letter i with an acute accent.

Letter

í

1. A letter of the Portuguese alphabet.