yi

yi

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

From Ukrainian ї (ji).

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

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

From Armenian յի (yi).

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

1. The Armenian letter Յ, յ.

Cognate with Saho yi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈji/

yí

1. my

• 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)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

• IPA^(key): /ji/

yi

1. 3rd person singular object personal pronoun

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

yi

1. 3rd person singular possessive determiner

yi

1. Alternative form of ji

yi

1. water

• 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

yi

1. The hiragana syllable 𛀆 (yi) or the katakana syllable 𛄠 (yi) in Hepburn romanization.
2. The hiragana syllable いぃ (yi) or the katakana syllable イィ (yi) in Hepburn romanization.

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

• IPA^(key): /ji˧/,

yi

1. (intransitive) to laugh

• IPA^(key): /jḭː˧/

yi

1. (intransitive) to go

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

• ye

• IPA^(key): /jiː˧/

yi

1. necklace

• IPA^(key): /ji˧/,

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)

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎, Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis), page 15,

yi

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

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

yi

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

yi

1. and

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

Norman Wikipedia has an article on:

yi

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• ieil (Guernsey)
• u (continental Normandy)

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

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

• Audio (Jersey):

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yi m (plural ièrs)

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

• (eye): cricot, criquinne (childish)

yi

1. Alternative form of yiy

yi

1. water

• 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

yi

1. older/elder brother

• María Belén Carpio, Marisa Censabella (2012) “Clauses as noun modifiers in Toba”, in Bernard Comrie, Zarina Estrada Fernández, editors, Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas (in Toba), →ISBN

From Mandarin 一 (yī).

• IPA^(key):

yi

1. one

   Synonym: yi-zek

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

• IPA^(key): /jí/

yí

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

• (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

• IPA^(key): /jí/

yí

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

• IPA^(key): /jí/

yí

1. (intransitive) to rotate

• yíyí

• IPA^(key): /jī/

yi

1. (intransitive) to be tough

• yíyi