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Chichewa
Pronunciation
Pronoun
iyé
- he, she (third-person singular personal pronoun)
See also
Chichewa personal pronouns
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singular
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plural or formal
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1st person
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ine
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ife
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2nd person
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iwe
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inu
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3rd person
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iye
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iwo
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Franco-Provençal
Noun
iye (Valdôtain, Graphie BREL)
- Alternative form of agouelye (“needle”) documented in the following location(s): Issogne
Lakota
Pronoun
iye
- he, she, it (3rd-person singular pronoun)
See also
Lokono
Etymology
From Proto-Ta-Arawak *i-nene, from Proto-Arawak *nene.
Noun
iye
- tongue
References
- de Goeje, C. H. (1928) The Arawak Language of Guiana, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 21
Middle English
Pronoun
iye
- Alternative form of ye (“you”)
Salar
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *Edi. Cognate to Southern Altai ээ (ee), Kyrgyz ээ (ee), etc.
Noun
iye
- owner, possessor
Tumbuka
Pronoun
iye
- (s)he (third-person singular personal pronoun)
See also
Tumbuka personal pronouns
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singular
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plural or formal
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1st person
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ine
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ise
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2nd person
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iwe
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imwe
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3rd person
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iye
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iwo
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Turkish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ottoman Turkish ایكه (eye, iye, eyge),[1][2][3] (alternatively; ایكا[3]) from Proto-Turkic *idi.[4][5][6] Doublet of ege and obsolete *is/*ıs (whence ıssız (“deserted, uninhabited”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /iˈje/
- Hyphenation: i‧ye
Noun
iye (definite accusative iyeyi, plural iyeler)
- (archaic) owner, possessor
- Synonyms: sahip, (dated) malik
Declension
Derived terms
References
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ایگه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 302
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ایگه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 222
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “ایگه”, in قاموس تركی (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 246
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “iḏi”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 41
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Edi”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “iye”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ĕdV”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Further reading
Walloon
Pronunciation
Noun
iye f (plural iyes)
- island
Ye'kwana
Variant orthographies
ALIV
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iye
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Brazilian standard
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iye
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New Tribes
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iye
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- yee, ye (Caura River dialect)
- dhee, dee (Cunucunuma River dialect)
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *jôje (“tree, wood”).
Pronunciation
Noun
iye (Caura River dialect)
- wood, stick of wood
- tree
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “iye”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, pages 24, 170, 221, 279, 286, 343, 361, 370, 415
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 219, 220–221, 388: “[de:] 'tree' […] The /d/ phoneme has a dialect alternant of /y/ heard in words such as: danwa/yanwa 'man'; and: de:/ye: 'tree'. […] de:/ye: 'tree' […] de: - tree”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “dē”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
Yoruba
Etymology 1
Cognate with Edo iye, Itsekiri iye, Igala íye, probably cognate with Ewe nyɛ, proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruboid *-ye
Pronunciation
Noun
iye
- mother, a title of respect for an older woman
- Synonyms: ìyá, màmá, mọ́mì, abiyamọ, yèyé, ìmọ̀mọ́, ìmọ̀ọ́, màámi
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
iye
- value, price
- amount
Derived terms
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
Noun
iyè
- mind; consciousness
Derived terms
Etymology 4
ì- (“nominalizing prefix”) + yè (“to live, to survive”), literally “that which you survive for”
Pronunciation
Noun
ìyè
- life