इ

See also: ड, ड़, and ङ

इ U+0907, इ DEVANAGARI LETTER I ← आ [U+0906] Devanagari ई → [U+0908]

Translingual

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i/, /ɪ/ (may vary by language)

Letter

इ (i)

1. 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.

Derived terms

• ि

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Hindi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪ/, /i/ (at the end of words)

Letter

इ • (i)

1. the third vowel in Hindi

See also

• (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,‎ ष़ ^{(Category: Hindi letters) [edit]}

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Marathi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i/

Letter

इ • (i)

1. The third vowel in Marathi.

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Nepali

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i/

Letter

इ • (i)

1. The third vowel in Nepali.

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Sanskrit

Alternative forms

• अय् (ay)
• ई (ī)

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /i/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /i/

Root

इ • (i)

1. to go

Derived terms

• 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”)
• ए (√e, “come near, approach; reach, attain; submit”)
• 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”)
• प्रे (√pre, “come forth, appear; begin; proceed, advance; go forwards; go out”)

 

References

• 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