yi

See also: Yi, yī, yí, yǐ, yì, and -yî

Translingual

Symbol

yi

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

English

Etymology 1

From Ukrainian ї (ji).

Letter

yi (lower case, upper case YI, plural yis or yi's)

1. The Cyrillic letter Ї ї, used in the Ukrainian and Rusyn alphabets.

Etymology 2

From Armenian յի (yi).

Letter

yi (lower case, upper case YI, plural yis or yi's)

1. The Armenian letter Յ, յ.

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈji/

Determiner

yí

1. my

See also

Afar possessive determiners

		1st person	2nd person	3rd person m	3rd person f
Personal	Singular	yi	ku	kay	tet
	Plural	ni	sin	ken
Reflexive	Singular	inní	isí
	Plural	ninní	isinní, sinní

References

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “yi”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Cameroon Pidgin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ji/

Pronoun

yi

1. 3rd person singular object personal pronoun

Usage notes

This is likely to have an animate referent, while the clitic -am is employed for an inanimate referent.

See also

Cameroonian Pidgin personal pronouns

Subject personal pronouns
		singular	plural
1st person		I	we, wu
2nd person		you	wuna
3rd person		i	dey
Object and topic personal pronouns
1st person		me	we
2nd person		you	wuna
3rd person		yi, -am	dem, -am

Determiner

yi

1. 3rd person singular possessive determiner

See also

Cameroonian Pidgin possessive determiners

		singular	plural
1st person		my	we
2nd person		your	wuna
3rd person		yi	dia

Dama (Sierra Leone)

Noun

yi

1. Alternative form of ji

Dazaga

Noun

yi

1. water

References

• Charles Le Coeur, Marguerite Le Coeur, Grammaire et textes teda-daza (1956)
• Herrmann Jungraithmayr, Daniel Barreteau, Uwe Seibert, L'homme et l'eau dans le bassin du lac Tchad (1997), page 75: Teda, Daza yi

Lashi

Etymology 1

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ray, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rya-t. Cognates include Burmese ရယ် (rai) and Sichuan Yi ꒉ (yy).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ji˧/, [ji˨˧]

Verb

yi

1. (intransitive) to laugh

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jḭː˧/

Verb

yi

1. (intransitive) to go

   Sara jung hkyo yi bye. ― The teacher has gone to school. (Quoting Luk, p. 26)

Alternative forms

• ye

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jiː˧/

Noun

yi

1. necklace

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ji˧/, [ji˧]

Particle

yi

1. Used to mark the plural of a noun depicting a human being.

   Hit mo jocang yi myócò nyit. ― There are many children here. (Quoting Luk, p. 119)

References

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎^[2], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis), pages 15,

Mandarin

Romanization

yi

1. Nonstandard spelling of yī.
2. Nonstandard spelling of yí.
3. Nonstandard spelling of yǐ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of yì.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle English

Determiner

yi

1. (chiefly Northern and northern East Midland dialectal) Alternative form of þi (“thy”)

Murrinh-Patha

Conjunction

yi

1. and

References

• Mark Abley, Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages (2003)

Norman

Alternative forms

• ieil (Guernsey)
• u (continental Normandy)

Etymology

From older *ye, from Old French ueil, from Vulgar Latin oclus, from Latin oculus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- (“eye; to see”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ji/
• (Sark) IPA^(key): /jɪ/

• Audio (Jersey)

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Noun

yi m (plural ièrs)

1. (Jersey, anatomy) eye
2. (Jersey) opening of lobster pot

Synonyms

• (eye): cricot, criquinne (childish)

Derived terms

• à l'yi nu (“with the naked eye”)
• à veue dg'yi (“in sight”)
• aver d's ièrs dé caûque-souothis (“to have good eyesight”)
• aver l's ièrs pus grands qué l'ventre (“to have eyes bigger than one's belly”)
• aver un yi tchi dit m'luque à l'aut' (“to have a squint”)
• balle dé l'yi (“eyeball”)
• clyîn dg'yi (“wink”)
• coup d'yi (“glance”)
• dans un clyîn dg'yi (“in the wink of an eye”)
• d'la carre d'san yi (“out of the corner of one's eye”)
• entré quat's ièrs (“to one's face”)
• êt' tout à ièrs (“to be all eyes”)
• freunmer l'yi (“to have a nap”)
• ièrs dé boeu (“oxeye daisy”)
• lanchi eune pathe dg'ièrs (“to throw a glance”)
• mauvais yi (“evil eye”)
• par sus l's ièrs (“up to the eyeballs”)
• preunelle dé l'yi (“pupil”)
• sèrvi au dé et à l'yi (“to wait on hand and foot”)
• s'mettre l'dé dans l'yi (“to put one's foot in it”)
• tout à ièrs (“all eyes”)
• vaie d'la carre d'san yi (“to see out of the corner of one's eye”)
• yi nu (“naked eye”)
• yi pochi (“black eye”)

 

Related terms

• à pèrte dé veue (“out of sight”)
• apèrchévance (“glimpse”)
• aveuglier (“to blind”)
• aveugl'ye (“blind”)
• blyîntchi, clyinn'ter (“to blink”)
• clyîn (dg'yi) (“wink”)
• clyinn'téthie (“blinking”)
• connaître dé veue (“to know by sight”)
• èrgard (“look”)
• èrgarder (“to look”)
• faithe des ilyies (“give someone the eye”)
• faithe un clyîn, donner un clyîn (“to give a wink”)
• fixer (“to stare at”)
• forchi la veue (“to strain one's eyes”)
• lèrme (“tear”)
• leunettes d'solé (“sunglasses”)
• leunettes (“glasses”)
• longue-veue (“telescope”)
• n'pon dormi un clyîn (“not to sleep a wink”)
• paûpiéthe (“eyelid”)
• paûpil'ye (“eyelash”)
• plieuther (“to cry”)
• s'mither (“to look at oneself in the mirror”)
• soucile (“eyebrow”)
• vaie doubl'ye (“to see double”)
• vaie d'près (“to be shortsighted”)
• vaie d'travèrs, r'garder gare (“to squint”)
• vaie rouoge (“to see red”)
• vaie (“to see”)
• vèrre d'approche (“magnifying glass”)
• veue (“eyesight”)

 

Salar

Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *yāy. Compare to Kyrgyz жай (jay).

Noun

yi (3rd person possessive [[{{{1}}}#Salar|{{{1}}}]], plural [[{{{2}}}#Salar|{{{2}}}]])

1. summer

Etymology 2

From Proto-Turkic *yē-. Cognate with Turkmen iýmek.

Pronunciation

Salar dialects:

• Qinghai:
  • Xunhua Salar Autonomous County:

    Jiezi dialect: IPA^(key): [ji]

    Mengda township: IPA^(key): [je]

  • Hualong County:

    Kasuo area, Ashnu township: IPA^(key): [ji]

• Xinjiang:
  • Yining County:

    Samuyuzi Township: IPA^(key): [ji], [iʃ]

Verb

yi

1. to eat

References

• 林 (Lin), 莲云 (Lianyun) (1985), “ji-”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar], Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, →OCLC, page 29

Tedaga

Noun

yi

1. water

References

• Charles Le Coeur, Marguerite Le Coeur, Grammaire et textes teda-daza (1956)
• Herrmann Jungraithmayr, Daniel Barreteau, Uwe Seibert, L'homme et l'eau dans le bassin du lac Tchad (1997), page 75: Teda, Daza yi

Toba

Noun

yi

1. older/elder brother

References

• 2012, María Belén Carpio and Marisa Censabella, Clauses as noun modifiers in Toba, in Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas (edited by Bernard Comrie and Zarina Estrada Fernández; →ISBN

Wutunhua

Wutunhua numbers ^(edit)

		10
		1	2  → [a], [b]	10  →
Cardinal: yi, yi-zek     Ordinal: di-yi, dangwo

Etymology

From Mandarin 一 (yī).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [i]

Numeral

yi

1. one

   Synonym: yi-zek

References

• Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun‎^[3], University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN

Yoruba

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /jí/

Noun

yí

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Y.

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) lẹ́tà; á, bí, dí, é, ẹ́, fí, gí, gbì, hí, í, jí, kí, lí, mí, ní, ó, ọ́, pí, rí, sí, ṣí, tí, ú, wí, yí

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /jí/

Verb

yí

1. (transitive) to topple
2. (intransitive) to be toppled

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /jí/

Verb

yí

1. (intransitive) to rotate

Derived terms

• yíyí

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /jī/

Verb

yi

1. (intransitive) to be tough

Derived terms

• yíyi