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io

See also: Io and Appendix:Variations of "io"

Translingual

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Etymology

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Abbreviation of English and Ido Ido

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io

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Ido.

English

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Etymology 1

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From New Latin, from Ancient Greek Ἰώ (Iṓ, “Io”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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io (plural ios)

  1. A type of moth, the io moth.
    • 1936, Paul Griswold Howes, Hand book for the curious:
      These lines appear to serve as roadways or guides to any stragglers that may have hung back for some reason known only to an io.

Etymology 2

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From Latin iō; compare Ancient Greek ἰώ (iṓ, “oh!”).

Interjection

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io

  1. (rare) An exclamation of joy or triumph.
    • 1913, Crowley, Aleister, “Hymn To Pan”, in Book 4‎[1], University of California Libraries, Magick in Theory and Practice:
      Do as thou wilt, as a great god can,
      O Pan! Io Pan!
      Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! I am awake
      In the grip of the snake.

Anagrams

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Aromanian

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Pronoun

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io

  1. Alternative form of iou (“I”)

Chuukese

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Pronoun

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io

  1. who

Dutch

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin io, from Ancient Greek ἰώ (iṓ). Doublet of jo.

Interjection

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io

  1. (dated) io (exclamation of triumph)

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Esperanto

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Etymology

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From i- (indeterminate correlative prefix) +‎ -o (correlative suffix of objects).

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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io (accusative ion)

  1. something (indeterminate correlative of objects)

Usage notes

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  • The plural forms ioj and iojn are nonstandard and rare.

Derived terms

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Esperanto correlatives
  interrogative demonstrative indefinite universal negative
ki- ti- i- ĉi- neni-
kind of, sort of -a kia tia ia ĉia nenia
reason -al kial tial ial ĉial nenial
time -am kiam tiam iam ĉiam neniam
place -e kie tie ie ĉie nenie
motion -en kien tien ien ĉien nenien
manner -el kiel tiel iel ĉiel neniel
possessive -es kies ties ies ĉies nenies
demonstrative pronoun -o kio tio io ĉio nenio
amount -om kiom tiom iom ĉiom neniom
demonstrative determiner -u kiu tiu iu ĉiu neniu

Interlingua

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Etymology

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Probably borrowed from Italian io.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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io

  1. I
    Io te ama.
    I love you.

Istro-Romanian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆.

Pronoun

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io (first-person singular, plural noi)

  1. I

Declension

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nominative io
accusative stressed mire
unstressed me (m')
dative stressed mi
unstressed âm
genitive masc. sg. meu/mev
fem. sg. me
masc. pl. meľ
fem. pl. mele

Italian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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io (personal, first person, possessive mio)

  1. I (the first-person singular nominative pronoun)

Usage notes

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  • Italian being a pro-drop language, subject pronouns are mostly omitted, both in the written and spoken language, as the inflected verb is conjugated by person. An example would be: Mangio una mela, which is much more common than Io mangio una mela, where the subject can be inferred from the inflected form mangio; similarly È carina instead of Lei è carina. The explicit usage of personal pronouns may sound redundant to a native speaker, except when it is used in order to emphasize the subject. (Io mangio una mela could be interpreted as I am eating an apple and you are not).

Descendants

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  • → Interlingua: io

Noun

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io m (invariable)

  1. ego, self
    Synonyms: sé, ego
    il proprio io ― one's own ego
    indagare nell'io ― to soul search (literally, “going investigating into one's self”)

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Italian personal pronouns
Number Person Gender Nominative Reflexive Accusative Dative Combined Disjunctive Locative Partitive
Singular first — io mi, m', -mi me me —
second — tu ti, t', -ti te te
third m lui si2, s', -si lo, l', -lo gli, -gli glie, se2 lui, sé ci, c',
vi, v' (formal) 		ne, n'
f lei, Lei1 la, La1, l', L'1, -la, -La1 le3, Le1, -le3, -Le1 lei, Lei1, sé
Plural first — noi ci, c', -ci ce noi —
second — voi, Voi4 vi, Vi4, v', V'4, -vi, -Vi4 ve voi, Voi4
third m loro, Loro1 si, s', -si li, Li1, -li, -Li1 gli, -gli, loro (formal),
Loro1 		glie, se loro, Loro1, sé ci, c',
vi, v' (formal) 		ne, n'
f le, Le1, -le, -Le1
1 Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead.
2 Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive.
3 Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language.
4 Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous).

Japanese

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Romanization

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io

  1. Rōmaji transcription of いお

Ladino

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Pronoun

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io (Hebrew spelling ייו)

  1. (Romania) Alternative spelling of yo
    • 1910, Reuben Eliyahu Israel, Traducsion libera de las poezias ebraicas de Roş Aşana i Kipur‎[2], Craiova: Institutul Grafic, I. Samitca şi D. Baraş, Socieatate in Comandita, →OCLC, page 10:
      Delantre de ti io mi orgolio abato
      I mi corason lo razgo con kevranto¹)
      I suppress my pride before you, and my heart tears it with despair.

Latin

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Etymology

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Echoic; compare Greek ἰώ (iṓ), or English yo.

Pronunciation

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Interjection

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iō

  1. an exclamation of joy: hurray, hurrah, yay
  2. an exclamation of pain: oh, ah, alas
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.447–448:
      illa quidem clāmābat ‘iō, cārissima māter, auferor!’
      Indeed, she was crying out, “Oh! mother dearest – I am being taken away!”
      (See Persephone. The full context implies a cry of anguish as well as a plea for help from Persephone's mother, Ceres. The alternative ‘‘Help!’’ calls for an imperative such as ‘‘ferte auxilium!’’.)
  3. an exclamation for getting attention: hey, oi, look, quick

References

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  • “io”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “io”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • io in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “io”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎[3]
  • “io”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “io”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Macanese

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Etymology

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Compare Kristang yo.

Pronoun

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io

  1. Alternative form of iou: I, me
    io sam ― I am

Maori

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Etymology

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From ua from Proto-Polynesian *ua – see ua for more details.

Noun

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io (plural ioio)

  1. sinew; tendon
    Synonym: ua
  2. muscle
    Synonym: ua
  3. vein
    Synonym: ua
  4. strand of rope
  5. lock of hair
    Synonym: makawe
  6. warp, lengthwise weaving threads

Derived terms

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References

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  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “io”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, pages 90-1
  • “io” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Megleno-Romanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆.

Pronoun

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io

  1. I

Neapolitan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈi/, /ˈiə/, /ˈjə/

Pronoun

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io

  1. I (the first-person singular nominative pronoun)

Coordinate terms

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Neapolitan personal pronouns
nominative accusative dative reflexive possessive prepositional
singular first person io (i') me mìo, mìa, mieje, meje me, méne
second
person 		familiar tu te tùjo, tòja, tùoje, tòje te, téne
formal vuje ve vuósto, vósta, vuóste, vóste vuje
third
person 		m ìsso 'o, 'u (lo, lu) 'i, 'e (li, le) se sùjo, sòja, sùoje, sòje ìsso
f éssa 'a (la) 'e (le) éssa
plural first person nuje ce nuósto, nòsta, nuóste, nòste nuje
second person vuje ve vuósto, vòsta, vuóste, vòste vuje
third
person 		m ìsse 'i, 'e (li, le) llòro se llòro (invariable) llòro
f llòro 'e (le)

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  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1638: “volete che ci vada io” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Old Dutch

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *aiw.

Adverb

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io

  1. always, every time, continuously
    • 1981, Arend Quak, chapter 1, in Die altmittel- und altniederfränkischen Psalmen und Glossen. Nach den Handschriften und Erstdrucken neu herausgegeben. [The Old Middle and Old Lower Franconian Psalms and Glosses. Republished after the manuscripts and original publications.] (Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur; 47)‎[4], Amsterdam: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 69:
      Duncla uuerthin ougon iro that sia ne gesian in rukgi iro io an crumbe.
      May their eyes be blinded so they (can) not see, and may their back keep getting bent!
    • 1981, Arend Quak, chapter 1, in Die altmittel- und altniederfränkischen Psalmen und Glossen. Nach den Handschriften und Erstdrucken neu herausgegeben. [The Old Middle and Old Lower Franconian Psalms and Glosses. Republished after the manuscripts and original publications.] (Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur; 47)‎[5], Amsterdam: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 71:
      An thi sang min io.
      For you is always my song.
  2. ever, at some point, sometime
    • 1971, Willy Sanders, editor, (Expositio) Willerammi Eberspergensis abbatis in canticis canticorum. Die Leidener Handschrift. (Kleine deutsche Prosadenkmäler des Mittelalters; 9)‎[6] (overall work in Latin and Old High German), München: Wilhelm Fink, page 52:
      So wer ouch thurgh godes willan thiro wereld arbeyde muothe, wie magh her ie ze meeron ruowan cuman, thanne thaz her uollecume 'ad fontem totius boni'?
      And whoever by God's will is tired by the burdens of the world, how can he ever attain peace better than that he reaches the source of all good?

Alternative forms

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Further reading

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  • “ie”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old High German

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *aiw, whence also Old English ā, Old Saxon eo, Old Norse ei, Old Dutch ēwa, io.

Adverb

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io

  1. always

Descendants

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  • >? German: je

Romanian

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Adverb

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io

  1. Obsolete form of iuo.

References

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  • io in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

West Makian

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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io

  1. (transitive) to marry

Conjugation

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Conjugation of io (action verb)
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person tiio miio aio
2nd person niio fiio
3rd person inanimate iio diio
animate
imperative niio, io fiio, io

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  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎[7], Pacific linguistics

Yoruba

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Cognate with Nupe ewó, Edo ígho, Urhobo ígho

Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /īó/, /ī.ɣó/

Noun

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ió

  1. (Ekiti) money, cowry
    Synonym: eó

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