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y

See also: y', у, ყ, and Appendix:Variations of "y"

y U+0079, y
LATIN SMALL LETTER Y
← x
[U+0078] 		Basic Latin z →
[U+007A]
Character variations

ʸ U+02B8, ʸ
MODIFIER LETTER SMALL Y
← ʷ
[U+02B7] 		Spacing Modifier Letters ʹ →
[U+02B9]
ｙ U+FF59, ｙ
FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER Y
← ｘ
[U+FF58] 		Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms ｚ →
[U+FF5A]
Languages (68)
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Translingual

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y (upper case Y)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

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  • Pronunciation of IPA [yː]:(file)

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y

  1. (metrology) yocto-.
  2. (IPA) a close front rounded vowel: the German ü-sound.
  3. (NAPA) the English y-sound, IPA [j].
  4. (superscript ⟨ʸ⟩, IPA) [y]-coloring, a [y] on- or off-glide (diphthong), or a weak, fleeting, epenthetic or echo [y].
  5. (superscript ⟨ʸ⟩, NAPA) palatalization, equivalent to IPA [ʲ].
  6. Denoting an item that is twenty-fifth in a list.
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  • Letter styles
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    Uppercase and lowercase versions of Y, in normal and italic type
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    Uppercase and lowercase Y in Fraktur

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English

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Etymology 1

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y (lower case, upper case Y, plural ys or y's)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the English alphabet, called wy or wye and written in the Latin script.
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Abbreviations.

y

  1. (Stenoscript) the sound sequence /ɔɪ̯/.
  2. (Stenoscript) Abbreviation of why.
  3. (Stenoscript) the suffix -ry or -rry.

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y

  1. Abbreviation of year.
    • 2003, Howard Tanner, Sonia Jones, Becoming a Successful Teacher of Mathematics:
      Consider the following questions selected from the tests and estimate the proportion of Y8 pupils you would expect to answer correctly.
  2. (UK, television) Abbreviation of youth, usually followed by an age appropriate for the content so marked.
    Y7
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y (not comparable)

  1. (slang, text messaging, Internet slang) Abbreviation of why.

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y

  1. (computing) Abbreviation of yes.

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Aragonese

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Etymology

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From Latin et, from Proto-Indo-European *éti.

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y

  1. and

Asturian

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Etymology

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From Latin et, from Proto-Indo-European *éti.

Conjunction

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y

  1. and

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y (y (or -y), plural ys/yos or -ys/-yos)

  1. Pronoun for the third-person singular indirect object.
    da-y pan
    give him/her bread

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  • Usually seen as -y

Azerbaijani

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y lower case (upper case Y)

  1. The thirty-first letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Basque

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  • IPA(key): /i ɡreko/, [i ɣ̞re̞.ko̞]

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y (lower case, upper case Y)

  1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Basque alphabet, called i greko and written in the Latin script.

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  • Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns.

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Catalan

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y (lower case, upper case Y)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Catalan alphabet, called i grega and written in the Latin script.
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y

  1. Obsolete form of i (“and”).

Cornish

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Brythonic *eið, from Proto-Celtic *esyo m and *esyās f; compare Old Irish a (“his, her, its, their”) and Sanskrit अस्य (asyá, “his, its”) and अस्यास् (asyā́s, “her”).

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y

  1. (Standard Cornish, Standard Written Form) his

Etymology 2

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From Proto-Celtic *eyes, plural of *es, from Proto-Indo-European *éy. Cognate with Breton i(nt), Irish ia(d) and Welsh hwy

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y

  1. (Standard Cornish) they (third person plural pronoun)

Etymology 3

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From Proto-Celtic *ide- (compare Breton e, ez, Welsh y, yth, Old Irish id), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁i-dʰei- (compare Latin ibi (“here”), Avestan 𐬌𐬛𐬁 (idā, “here, in the same way”), and Sanskrit इह (ihá, “here”)).

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y (triggers mixed mutation)

  1. Inserted before the verb when the verb precedes the subject

Czech

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y (lower case, upper case Y)

  1. The thirty-ninth letter of the Czech alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Dutch

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Alternative forms

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  • ij (in some words)

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  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ɛɪ/, /iˈɡrɛk/, /ˌɣrik.sə ˈɛɪ/
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y (lower case, upper case Y)

  1. the twenty-fifth letter of the Dutch alphabet

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In certain dialects the letter is pronounced similar to IPA: /ji:/. In these dialects, they will actually write "y" such as in "jy" (IPA: /ji:/) instead of modern standard Dutch jij (IPA: /jɛɪ/).

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  • Previous letter: x
  • Next letter: z

Estonian

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y (lower case, upper case Y)

  1. The thirty-second letter of the Estonian alphabet, called igrek / üpsilon and written in the Latin script.

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Fala

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y

  1. Alternative form of i

Faroese

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y (upper case Y)

  1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Faroese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Finnish

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Etymology

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The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on those of Swedish, German and Latin, and was first used in the mid-16th century. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and y for information on the development of the glyph itself. In particular, the use of ⟨y⟩ for /y/ follows the Swedish orthography, which in turn follows Latin.

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y (lower case, upper case Y)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called yy and written in the Latin script.

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Franco-Provençal

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin hīc.

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y (ORB, broad)

  1. it (third-person singular neuter dative)

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Franco-Provençal personal pronouns
nominative accusative dative tonic1 possessive2
singular 1st person jo mè min
2nd person te tè tin
3rd person masculine il lo / le lui sin
feminine el la lyé
neuter o y —
reflexive — sè
plural 1st person nos noutro
2nd person vos voutro
3rd person masculine ils los / les lor lor
feminine els les lor / lyés
reflexive — sè

1 Disjunctive or object of a preposition.   2 Generally preceded by a definite article.

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  • y in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
  • y in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

French

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Etymology 1

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From i grec (“Greek i”), referring to the letter upsilon (Υ), originally borrowed from the Greek alphabet, as opposed to "Latin i" (I).

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  • (letter name) IPA(key): /i.ɡʁɛk/

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y

  1. a letter in the French alphabet, after x and before z

Etymology 2

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10th century; from Old French i, from Latin hīc (“here”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰi-ḱe (“this, here”)), with meaning influenced by Old French iv (“there, thither”), itself from Latin ibī. Derivation from the latter poses difficulty from a phonetic standpoint. Compare Catalan hi.

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y (adverbial)

  1. there (at a place)
    Il est dans la maison. Il y est.
    He is in the house. He is there.
  2. there, thither (to there)
    Nous allons au Mexique. Nous y allons.
    We are going to Mexico. We are going there.
  3. Used as a pronoun to replace an adverbial phrase starting with à.
    Je pense à mon pays. J’y pense.
    I think about my country. I think about it.
    1. With verbs: see Appendix:French verbs followed by à for verbs which use this structure.
    2. (archaic) With adjectives. Only used with a handful of adjectives (the most common combination being y compris, which is a special case), mainly in legal terminology.
      personnes y nommées ― Persons named there(in)
      procédures y afférentes ― Related procedures
      documents y relatifs ― Related documents
      eaux y affluentes ― Tributary waters
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French personal pronouns
number person gender nominative
(subject) 		accusative
(direct complement) 		dative
(indirect complement) 		locative
(at) 		genitive
(of) 		disjunctive
(tonic)
singular first — je, j’ me, m’ — — moi
second — tu te, t’ — — toi
third masculine il le, l’ lui y en lui
feminine elle la, l’ elle
indeterminate on1 — — — — —
reflexive4 — se, s’ — — soi
plural first — nous nous — — nous
second2 — vous vous — — vous
third masculine ils3 les leur y en eux3
feminine elles elles

1 On can also function as a first person plural (although agreeing with third person singular verb forms).
2 Vous is also used as the polite singular form.
3 Ils and eux are also used when a group has a mixture of masculine and feminine members.
4 These forms are also used as third person plural reflexive.

Etymology 3

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Eye dialect spelling or contraction of il and ils.

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y

  1. (Quebec, colloquial) he: alternative form of il
  2. (Quebec, colloquial) they: alternative form of ils
  3. (Quebec, colloquial) they: alternative form of elles

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Fula

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y (lower case, upper case Y)

  1. A letter of the Fula alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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German

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  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /yː/, /y/, /ʏ/, /i/, /ɪ/, /j/
  • (letter name) IPA(key): /ˈʏpsilɔn/
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y n (strong, genitive y, plural y)

  1. the letter y

Guaraní

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Noun

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y

  1. water

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Haitian Creole

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Etymology

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Contraction of yo.

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y

  1. Contraction of yo.

Hungarian

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  • (phoneme): IPA(key): [ˈi]
  • (letter name): IPA(key): [ˈipsilon]

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y (lower case, upper case Y)

  1. A letter of the extended Hungarian alphabet, called ipszilon and written in the Latin script.

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As shown in the alphabet below, this letter normally occurs in Hungarian words only as part of four digraphs: gy, ly, ny, and ty (with their long counterparts: ggy, lly, nny, tty). Aside from them, the terms containing y defined in an extensive Hungarian monolingual dictionary[1] are baby-doll, baby-sitter, body (“bodice”), body-building / bodyzik / bodyzó, boy, brandy, citoyen, country​/​countryzene, cowboy​/​cowboyfilm​/​cowboykalap, curry, disc-jockey, doyen, dry, dyn, fair play, háryjános​/​háryjánoskodik, intercity, joystick, play back, playboy, royalista, sherry, spray, whisky, yard, yperit, yuppie, złoty and the letter itself. Additionally, a newer and more comprehensive but as yet incomplete dictionary[2] contains bicsérdysta, byte, copyright, and cowboycsizma. (The forms dandy, gentry, happy end (“happy ending”), jersey, maya, nylon, and yen are also mentioned as alternative forms in the former volume, but their current standard spelling is dendi, dzsentri, dzsörzé, hepiend, jen, maja, and nejlon.)

Proper names written with y include the country names Guyana, Paraguay, Seychelle-szigetek, and Uruguay and the capital names Conakry, Port Moresby, and Reykjavík. Other names deriving from Latin alphabets are also retained (such as English Calgary, Hollywood, Kentucky, Montgomery, New Jersey, New York, Sydney, Wyoming etc., German Bayreuth, Speyer, Steyr, French Lyon, Mayotte, Nancy, Vichy, and Polish Białystok, Bydgoszcz, Przemyśl). Otherwise, this letter is usually transcribed in country and city names, for example Jemen (“Yemen”), Malajzia (“Malaysia”), Nepjida (“Naypyidaw”), and Rijád (“Riyadh”).

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Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative y y-ok
accusative y-t y-okat
dative y-nak y-oknak
instrumental y-nal y-okkal
causal-final y-ért y-okért
translative y-ná y-okká
terminative y-ig y-okig
essive-formal y-ként y-okként
essive-modal — —
inessive y-ban y-okban
superessive y-on y-okon
adessive y-nál y-oknál
illative y-ba y-okba
sublative y-ra y-okra
allative y-hoz y-okhoz
elative y-ból y-okból
delative y-ról y-okról
ablative y-tól y-októl
non-attributive
possessive – singular 		y-é y-oké
non-attributive
possessive – plural 		y-éi y-okéi
Possessive forms of y
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. y-om y-aim, y-jaim
2nd person sing. y-od y-aid, y-jaid
3rd person sing. y-a, y-ja y-ai, y-jai
1st person plural y-unk y-aink, y-jaink
2nd person plural y-otok y-aitok, y-jaitok
3rd person plural y-uk, y-juk y-aik, y-jaik

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References

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  1. ^ 75,000 entries in Pusztai, Ferenc (ed.). Magyar értelmező kéziszótár (“A Concise Explanatory Dictionary of Hungarian”). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2003. 2nd, expanded and revised edition →ISBN. Online searchable version (under development)
  2. ^ As of 2021, completed until ELZ. Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress)

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  • y in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Icelandic

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y (upper case Y)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Icelandic alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Ido

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  • (context pronunciation) IPA(key): /j/
  • (letter name) IPA(key): /je/

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y (upper case Y)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Indonesian

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y (lower case, upper case Y)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Indonesian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Italian

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y f or m (invariable, lower case, upper case Y)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Latin alphabet, called ipsilon, i greco or i greca in Italian

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  • The letter Y is not considered part of the Italian alphabet. It is found mainly in loanwords.

Kabuverdianu

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Etymology

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From Portuguese e.

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y

  1. and

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  • Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN

Kamayurá

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Noun

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y

  1. Alternative form of 'ɨ

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  • Languages of the Amazon (2012, →ISBN

Kankanaey

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Tagalog y. Letter pronunciation is influenced by English y.

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  • (letter name) IPA(key): /waj/ [wai̯]
  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /i/ [i̞]
    • Rhymes: -i

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y (lower case, upper case Y)

  1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Kankanaey alphabet, called way and written in the Latin script.

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  • Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino (2016) Ortograpiya di Kankanaëy [Kankanaey Orthography]‎[4] (in Kankanaey and Tagalog), →ISBN, pages 10-11

Kashubian

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Etymology

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The Kashubian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Kashubian alphabet article on Wikipedia for more, and y for development of the glyph itself.

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y (lower case, upper case Y)

  1. The thirty-first letter of the Kashubian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Khumi Chin

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y

  1. no

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  • K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin‎[5], Payap University, page 47

Ladin

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y

  1. and

Latgalian

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y (upper case Y)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Latgalian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Latin

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ȳ f (indeclinable)

  1. A name of the letter Y.

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Lithuanian

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y (upper case Y)

  1. The fifteenth letter of the Lithuanian alphabet, called i ilgoji and written in the Latin script.

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Lower Sorbian

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y (upper case Y)

  1. The thirty-first letter of the Lower Sorbian alphabet, called y and written in the Latin script.
  2. The name of the Latin-script letter y/Y.

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Malay

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y (lower case, upper case Y)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Mandinka

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y

  1. they, them (personal pronoun)

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Mandinka personal pronouns
singular plural
1st person nte, n, m ntolu, ntelu, n
2nd person ite, i altolu, altelu, al
3rd person ate, a itolu, itelu, y

Manx

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y

  1. Alternative form of yn

Mbyá Guaraní

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y

  1. water

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Middle English

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Etymology 1

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y

  1. Alternative form of I

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Preposition

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y

  1. Alternative form of in (“in”)

Middle French

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y

  1. there (in a given place)
    • 1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 12:
      Or me dictes fist Lancelot, des lettres qui illec sont escriptes, savez vous qui les y fist mettre
      Now tell me, said Lancelot, about these letters that are written here, do you know who put them here?
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y (upper case Y)

  1. A letter of the Navajo alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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The letter ⟨y⟩ is used for the phoneme /j/, but also for /ɣ/ before a front vowel, where that is pronounced [ʝ].

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Norwegian

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y

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Norwegian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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  • Perhaps the most troublesome sound in Norwegian. Even some native speakers tend to merge it into /i(ː)/.

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse ýr, from Proto-Germanic *īhwaz. Akin to English yew.

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y m (definite singular yen, indefinite plural yar, definite plural yane)

  1. (obsolete) yew
    Synonym: barlind
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From Old Norse úa, influenced by kry.

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y (present tense yr, past tense ydde, past participle ytt/ydd, passive infinitive yast, present participle yande, imperative y)

  1. to crawl (of small animals)

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Nupe

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y (lower case, upper case Y)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Nupe alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Old English

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y (upper case Y)

  1. A letter of the Old English alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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  • This letter always represents the IPA vowel /y/, never the consonant /j/ that y sometimes represents in modern English.
  • Old English texts often include a tittle above the letter: ⟨ẏ⟩
  • Although Old English texts typically did not mark vowel length, modern editions of Old English manuscripts typically do. Some editions mark the long version of this vowel with ⟨ý⟩, but ⟨ȳ⟩ is now more common.

Old Tupi

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tɨ (“liquid, urine”), from Proto-Tupian *tˀɨ (“liquid, urine”). Doublet of ty.[1][2]

Cognate with Sateré-Mawé hɨ (“river”), Guaraní ty (“urine”).

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y (possessable, IIb class pluriform, absolute ty, R1 ry, R2 ty)

  1. water
    Synonym: 'y
  2. liquid
    Synonym: yku
  3. humidity
    Synonyms: yby'y, akymaíba
    Coordinate terms: abyaru, 'a'y
  4. juice, while it's still inside the fruit
  5. broth
    Synonym: îekysy
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y (IIb class pluriform, R1 ry, R2 ty, noun form y)

  1. humid
    Synonyms: yby'y, akymaíb

Etymology 2

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Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tɨ (“river”), from Proto-Tupian *it͡ʃˀɨ (“river”).[1][3]

Cognate with Awetí hɨ (“river”) and Sateré-Mawé ihɨ (“river”).

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y (possessable, IIb class pluriform, absolute ty, R1 ry, R2 ty)

  1. river
    Synonym: 'y

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Beatriz Carretta Corrêa da Silva (2010) Mawé/Awetí/Tupí-Guaraní: relações linguísticas e implicações históricas‎[1] (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB, pages 403–404
  2. ^ Andrey Nikulin (2020) Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo‎[2] (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB
  3. ^ Aryon d'Alligna Rodrigues (2007) “As consoantes do proto-tupí”, in Aryon d'Alligna Rodrigues, Ana Suelly Arruda Câmara Cabral, editors, Línguas e culturas tupí‎[3], 1 edition, volume 1, Campinas: Curt Nimuendajú, pages 167–204

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Papiamentu

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Alternative forms

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  • i (alternative spelling)

Etymology

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From Spanish y and Portuguese e and Kabuverdianu i.

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y

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Polish

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Etymology

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The Polish orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the history of Polish orthography article on Wikipedia for more, and y for development of the glyph itself.

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y (upper case Y, lower case)

  1. The twenty-ninth letter of the Polish alphabet, called y or igrek and written in the Latin script.

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Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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Letter name: (ípsilon)

Letter name: (i grego)

 

Phoneme:

  • IPA(key): /i/, /j/ (loanwords)

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y (lower case, upper case Y)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Quechua

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Adverb

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y

  1. really, truly

Romanian

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y (lower case, upper case Y)

  1. The thirtieth letter of the Romanian alphabet, called igrec or i grec and written in the Latin script.

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Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns.

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Silesian

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Etymology

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The Silesian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Silesian language article on Wikipedia for more, and y for development of the glyph itself.

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y (lower case, upper case Y)

  1. The thirty-first letter of the Silesian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Slovak

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y (upper case Y)

  1. The forty-second letter of the Slovak alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Spanish

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Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (letter name, everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝe/ [ˈɟ͡ʝe]
  • IPA(key): (letter name, Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃe/ [ˈʃe]
  • IPA(key): (letter name, elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒe/ [ˈʒe]

    • Rhymes: -e
  • /i/ in the conjunction (see below) and in word-final diphthongs (e.g. hoy, rey); otherwise /ʝ/.

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y (lower case, upper case Y)

  1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Spanish alphabet, called ye or i griega and written in the Latin script.

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Etymology 2

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Inherited from Old Spanish é or e, from Latin et.

Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (preconsonantal) /i/ [i]
    • Rhymes: -i
    • Syllabification: y
  • IPA(key): (prevocalic) [i̯]
    • Rhymes:
  • Audio (Spain):(file)

Conjunction

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y

  1. and
    • 1605, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quijote de la Mancha1, Chapter I:
      Es, pues, de saber que este sobredicho hidalgo, los ratos que estaba ocioso —que eran los más del año—, se daba a leer libros de caballerías, con tanta afición y gusto, que olvidó casi de todo punto el ejercicio de la caza y aun la administración de su hacienda; y llegó a tanto su curiosidad y desatino en esto, que vendió muchas hanegas de tierra de sembradura para comprar libros de caballerías en que leer, y, así, llevó a su casa todos cuantos pudo haber dellos.
      You must know, then, that the above-named gentleman whenever he was at leisure (which was mostly all the year round) gave himself up to reading books of chivalry with such ardour and avidity that he almost entirely neglected the pursuit of his field-sports, and even the management of his property; and to such a pitch did his eagerness and infatuation go that he sold many an acre of tillageland to buy books of chivalry to read, and brought home as many of them as he could get.
  2. (in names of number) and
    setenta y seis ― seventy-six
  3. (in arithmetic) plus, and
    uno y uno son dos ― one plus one is two
  4. (informal) well
    ¡Y por supuesto! ― Well, of course!
  5. (informal) what about, how about, where is/are the
    Pero, ¿y el concierto? ¿Ya no vamos? ― But what about the concert? Are we not going anymore?
    ¿Y la niña? ¿Está a salvo? ― How about the girl? Is she safe?
    ¿Y los archivos? Debo echarles un vistazo. ― Where are the files? I should take a look at them.
Usage notes
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  • Before words that begin with the /i/ sound, the form e is used instead (except when the meaning of the conjunction is "what about", in which case the form y is always used).
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Further reading

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Swedish

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y (lower case, upper case Y)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Swedish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Tagalog

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Spanish y. Each pronunciation has a different source:

  • Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by English y.
  • Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by Baybayin character ᜌ (ya).
  • Abecedario pronunciation is from Spanish y.

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  • (Standard Tagalog)
    • IPA(key): /ˈwaj/ [ˈwaɪ̯] (letter name, Filipino alphabet)
    • IPA(key): /ˈja/ [ˈja] (letter name, Abakada alphabet)
      • Rhymes: -a
    • IPA(key): /ˈje/ [ˈjɛ] (letter name, Abecedario)
      • Rhymes: -e
    • IPA(key): /j/ [j] (phoneme)
    • IPA(key): /i/ [ɪ] (phoneme, used as a vowel)

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y (lower case, upper case Y)

  1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Tagalog alphabet (the Filipino alphabet), called way and written in the Latin script.
  2. The twentieth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (the Abakada alphabet), called ya and written in the Latin script.
  3. (historical) The twenty-seventh letter of the Tagalog alphabet (the Abecedario), called ye and written in the Latin script.
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Spanish y.

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Conjunction

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y (Baybayin spelling ᜁ)

  1. (archaic) and
    Synonyms: at, saka

Further reading

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  • “y”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Tày

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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y

  1. to imitate, to mimic

Preposition

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y

  1. along
    y te hết ― do like he/she does (literally do along him/her)
    Đăm nà y thỏi cáu
    Follow the old customs (literally "plant rice like the previous rows")
  2. according to
    y cằm po̱ me̱ ― according to the parents' words

References

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Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎[6][7] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên

Tlingit

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y (upper case Y)

  1. A letter of the Tlingit alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Turkish

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y (lower case, upper case Y)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called ye and written in the Latin script.

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Turkmen

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Pronunciation

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  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /ɯ/, /ɯː/

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y (upper case Y)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Turkmen alphabet, called y and written in the Latin script.

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Vietnamese

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Vietnamese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia vi

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Etymology 1

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Sino-Vietnamese word from 伊.

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y

  1. (archaic, literary) he; him; she; her
    • 1958, Đổng Chi Nguyễn, “Thạch Sùng còn thiếu mẻ kho hay là Sự tích con mối”, in Kho tàng truyện cố tích Việt Nam, NXB Văn sử địa:
      Hồi đó ở kinh đô có một người em hoàng hậu họ Vương. Y cũng là tay cự phú nổi tiếng tiền rừng biển bạc và xài phí vào bậc nhất.
      At the time, there was in the capital a brother of the queen of the Wáng family. He was also a famous for being immensely rich and was an extravagant spender of first degree.
  2. (derogatory) he, him
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Etymology 2

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Sino-Vietnamese word from 依.

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y

  1. (informal) exactly; precisely (like)
    y như ― exactly like/as
    y như thật ― so realistic (literally, “exactly like real life”)
    y chang ― very much like
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Etymology 3

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Sino-Vietnamese word from 醫.

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y

  1. (medicine) medicine; physician
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Võro

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Pronunciation

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y (uppercase Y)

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

Wayampi

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Noun

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y

  1. Alternative form of ɨɨ (“water”)
    ay'ú. ― I drink water.

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  • Handbook of Amazonian Languages, volume 4 (1998), edited by Desmond C. Derbyshire, Geoffrey K. Pullum

Welsh

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Etymology 1

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Alternative forms

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  • ỳ (with grave accent to indicate otherwise unpredictable short vowel /ə/)
  • ý (with acute accent to indicate unusually stressed short vowel)
  • ŷ (with circumflex to indicate otherwise unpredictable or unusually stressed long vowel)
  • ÿ (with diaeresis to indicate disyllabicity)

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y (lower case, upper case Y)

  1. The twenty-ninth letter of the Welsh alphabet, called y and written in the Latin script.
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  • y cannot be mutated but, being a vowel, does take h-prothesis, for example with the word ysgol (“school; ladder”):
Mutated forms of ysgol
radical soft nasal h-prothesis
ysgol unchanged unchanged hysgol

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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  • Digraph sequences: yw
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Noun

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y f (plural yau)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter Y/y.
Mutation
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Mutated forms of y
radical soft nasal h-prothesis
y unchanged unchanged hy

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Etymology 2

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From Middle Welsh y, yr, from Old Welsh ir, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *sindos.

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  • 'r (used after vowels)
  • yr (used before vowels and h)

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y (definite) (triggers soft mutation of a feminine singular noun, except ll and rh remain unmutated)

  1. the
    y bachgen m ― the boy
    y ferch f ― the girl
    y llong f ― the ship
    y bechgyn pl ― the boys
    y merched pl ― the girls

Etymology 3

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Merger of two formerly distinct particles, ydd and yd.

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  • yr (used before vowels and h)

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Particle

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y

  1. (literary) that (preverbal particle used to mark a subordinate clause)
    Wyt ti'n meddwl y gall hi ddod?
    Do you think that she can come?
    Mae hi'n gwybod y byddet ti'n gwrando arni hi.
    She knows that you would listen to her.
  2. (literary) which, whom (particle used with indirect relative clauses)
    y dyn y dysgais ei fab ― the man whose son I taught
    y ferch y gwrandewais arni ― the girl to whom I listened
  3. (literary) preverbal particle used to mark an affirmative verb in a main clause
    • 1620, William Morgan, Y Bibl Cyssegr-lan, Genesis 1:1:
      Yn y dechreuad y creodd Duw y nefoedd a’r ddaear.
      In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
    Synonyms: mi, fe (colloquial)
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  • y is almost always omitted in colloquial speech.
  • y is used to mean 'that' (i.e. mark a subordinate clause) when the subordinate clause begins with an affirmative form of bod not in the present tense, or another affirmative verb in any tense apart from the preterite.
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  • a
  • bod
  • mai (with fronted element, marked for emphasis)
  • i
  • na (negative)

Yele

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y (upper case Y)

  1. A letter of the Yele alphabet.

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After a consonant, the letter indicates palatalization, except that expected *ty and *nty are spelled ⟨ch⟩ and ⟨nj⟩.

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  • The digraph ⟨yw⟩ is used after a consonant m mb p for /◌ᶣ/ in labio-palatalized ⟨myw mbyw pyw⟩.
  • Palatalized ⟨dny, dmy, dpy, dy, kpy, ky, ly, mby, mty, my, ndy, nmy, ny, py, tpy, vy⟩.

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Yoruba

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y (lower case, upper case Y)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Yoruba alphabet, called yí and written in the Latin script.

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Zulu

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y (lower case, upper case Y)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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