і
TranslingualEdit
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LetterEdit
і (upper case І)
- A letter of the Cyrillic script, called dotted i or decimal i.
LetterEdit
і (upper case І)
- A letter of the Old Cyrillic script, called izhei.
Alternative formsEdit
- ї (orthographical variant)
GalleryEdit
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Regular.
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Italics.
BelarusianEdit
Etymology 1Edit
PronunciationEdit
LetterEdit
і • (i) (lower case, upper case І)
- The tenth letter of the Belarusian alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
See alsoEdit
- (Cyrillic-script letters) А а, Б б, В в, Г г, Д д, Е е, Ё ё, Ж ж, З з, І і, Й й, К к, Л л, М м, Н н, О о, П п, Р р, С с, Т т, У у, Ў ў, Ф ф, Х х, Ц ц, Ч ч, Ш ш, Ы ы, Ь ь, Э э, Ю ю, Я я
Etymology 2Edit
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.
PronunciationEdit
ConjunctionEdit
і • (i)
KazakhEdit
| Cyrillic | і (ı) |
|---|---|
| Arabic | ى ,ٸ (ى ,ٸ) |
| Latin | ı |
PronunciationEdit
LetterEdit
і • (ı) (lower case, upper case І)
- The thirty-eighth letter of the Kazakh alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
See alsoEdit
KhakasEdit
LetterEdit
і • (ì) (lower case, upper case І)
- The thirteenth letter of the Khakas alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
See alsoEdit
Old Church SlavonicEdit
LetterEdit
і • (i) (lower case, upper case І)
- A letter of the Old Church Slavonic alphabet, called и (i) or ижеи (ižei), and written in the Old Cyrillic script.
See alsoEdit
- (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
RussianEdit
PronunciationEdit
LetterEdit
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.
RusynEdit
Etymology 1Edit
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.
ConjunctionEdit
і • (i)
SynonymsEdit
- а (a)
Etymology 2Edit
LetterEdit
- The twelfth letter of the Rusyn alphabet
UkrainianEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
LetterEdit
і • (i) (lower case, upper case І)
- The twelfth letter of the Ukrainian alphabet, called і (i), and written in the Cyrillic script.
See alsoEdit
- (Cyrillic-script letters) А а, Б б, В в, Г г, Ґ ґ, Д д, Е е, Є є, Ж ж, З з, И и, І і, Ї ї, Й й, К к, Л л, М м, Н н, О о, П п, Р р, С с, Т т, У у, Ф ф, Х х, Ц ц, Ч ч, Ш ш, Щ щ, Ь ь, Ю ю, Я я
Etymology 2Edit
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 (eἰ, “if”), Gothic 𐌴𐌹 (ei, “and, so that, be it”). Follows from ablative Proto-Indo-European *ed.
ConjunctionEdit
і • (i)
Usage notesEdit
- The forms і (i) (used after consonants or at the beginning of a clause) and й (j) (used after vowels) differ in pronunciation but are considered variants of the same word.
SynonymsEdit
ParticleEdit
і • (i)
Etymology 3Edit
Primal interjection in response to pain, fear, surprise. Common to many languages.
InterjectionEdit
і • (i)
ReferencesEdit
- 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
