इ
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इ (i)
- A vowel of the Devanagari script. Its matra, used to modify the inherent vowel in a consonant is written ि. For example the first consonant क with the matra looks like: कि. The matra should appear before the consonant it modifies, though it is pronounced after.
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DhivehiEdit
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इ • (i)
- The third vowel in Dhivehi, written in Devanagari script
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इ • (i)
See alsoEdit
- (matra): ि (i)
- (Devanagari script letters) अ, आ, इ, ई, उ, ऊ, ऋ, ऌ, ए, ऐ, ओ, औ, अं, अः, अँ, क, ख, ग, घ, ङ, च, छ, ज, झ, ञ, ट, ठ, ड, ढ, ण, त, थ, द, ध, न, प, फ, ब, भ, म, य, र, ल, व, श, ष, स, ह, त्र, ज्ञ, क्ष, क़, ख़, ग़, ज़, झ़, ड़, ढ़, फ़, श़ (Category: Hindi letters) [edit]
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इ • (i)
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इ • (i)
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EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Indo-Aryan *Hi-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hi-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁i-. Cognate with Ancient Greek εἶμι (eîmi, “I go”), Mycenaean Greek 𐀂𐀍𐀳 (i-jo-te), Latin eo (“I go”), Old Persian 𐎠𐎡𐎫𐎡𐎹 (aitiy, “goes”), Luwian 𒄿𒋾 (i-ti /iti, idi/, “goes”), Hittite 𒄿𒄿𒀀𒀜𒋫 (i-ya-at-ta /iyatta/, “goes”), Old Church Slavonic ити (iti), Lithuanian eiti.
PronunciationEdit
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इ • (i)
- to go
Derived termsEdit
- अय (áya, “going”)
- अयन (áyana, “road, path”)
- अर्थेत् (arthét, “active, hasty”)
- आय (āyá, “arrival, approach”)
- आयन (ā́yana, “coming, approaching”)
- आयिन् (āyín, “coming or hastening near”)
- आयु (āyú, “living, movable”)
- इत (itá, “gone”)
- इत्य (itya, “to be gone to”)
- इत्या (ityā́, “going, stepping”)
- इत्वन् (itvan, “going”)
- इत्वर (itvara, “going, walking”)
- एत (éta, “come near, approached”)
- एत (éta, “rushing, darting”)
- एतवे (étave, “to go”)
- एति (éti, “arrival, approach”)
- एति (éti, “he goes”)
- एतृ (etṛ́, “goer, approacher”)
- एतोस् (étos, “to go”)
- एत्य (étya, “having come near”)
- एनी (enī́, “rushing, darting”)
- एम (éma, “course, way”)
- एमन् (éman, “course, way”)
- एव (éva, “going, moving, speedy, quick”)
- ए (√e, “come near, approach; reach, attain; submit”)
- प्रे (√pre, “come forth, appear; begin; proceed, advance; go forwards; go out”)
ReferencesEdit
- Monier Williams (1899), “इ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 163.
- William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 7