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i¹

  • /ə/ phoneme
  • /aɪ/ phoneme
  • /ɪ/ phoneme
  • /i/ phoneme
  • /iː/ phoneme
  • /aɪ/ letter, name

Sounds like aye, eye · Rhymes with -aɪ

Where it comes from

From Latin i, minuscule of I.

letter I · is · i's

  1. letter, lowercase The ninth letter of the English alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.

number I · is · i's

  1. lowercase The ninth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.

noun ies · eye

  1. The name of the Latin script letter I/i. the position of an i-dot (the dot of an i)

i²

  • /aɪ/

Sounds like aye, eye · Rhymes with -aɪ

Where it comes from

From Old English iċ.

pronoun

  1. nonstandard Alternative letter-case form of I.I Here follow ſome few lines in the original, which not underſtanding i have omitted. […] Laſtly that amidſt ſo many viciſſitudes of fortune, to which I have been expoſed, amongſt all the goods, i ſay, and evils, the joyfull and gloomy, the pleaſing, and diſagreeable circumſtances of life, thou endowe

I³

  • /aɪ/
  • [aɪ] UK
  • [äj] UK
  • /aː/ Northumbria
  • [ɑj] British, Southern, Standard
  • [ʌj] British, Southern, Standard
  • [aj] US
  • [ɑɪ] US
  • [aː] Southern US
  • [ɑe̯] Australia, New Zealand
  • /aɪ/ Ireland
  • /əɪ/
  • /ɐɪ/
  • /oɪ/
  • /ɛɪ/ Ulster
  • [æj] Canada
  • [äɪ] Canada
  • [ɐɪ] dialectal
  • [əj] dialectal
  • [ai˨] Hong Kong
  • [ai˧˥]

Sounds like eye, aye, ay · Rhymes with -aɪ

Where it comes from

From Middle English a, hi, hich, hij, I, ic, ich, ichc, ichs, ick, ig, ih, ik, j, jch, y, from Old English ic, ich, ih, ᛁᚳ (ic), ᛁᚴ (ik, “I”), from Proto-West Germanic *ik (“I”), from Proto-Germanic *ek, *eka, *ik (“I”), from Proto-Indo-European *eǵh₂óm (“I”).

Cognates

Cognate with Scots A, I, Ik (“I”), Yola Ich (“I”), North Frisian ick, ik, 'k (“I”), Saterland Frisian iek (“I”), West Frisian ik (“I”), Alemannic German i, ich, ig (“I”), Bavarian and Mòcheno i (“I”), Central Franconian eich, ich (“I”), Cimbrian i, ich (“I”), Dutch ick, ik, ikke (“I”), Low German eck, ick, ik, öck (“I”), German ich (“I”), Limburgish ich, iich (“I”), Luxembourgish ech (“I”), Vilamovian ych (“I”), West Flemish 'k (“I”), Yiddish איך (ikh), יאַך (yakh, “I”), Danish jeg, jæ (“I”), Elfdalian ig (“I”), Faroese eg, jeg (“I”), Icelandic eg, ég, ek, jeg (“I”), Jutish æ (“I”), Norn eg (“I”), Norwegian Bokmål jeg (“I”), Norwegian Nynorsk eg, æg (“I”), Swedish i, jag (“I”), Crimean Gothic ich (“I”), Gothic 𐌹𐌺 (ik, “I”); also Asturian, Aragonese, and Spanish yo (“I”), Catalan jo (“I”), French je (“I”), Galician and Portuguese eu (“I”), Italian io (“I”), Leonese and Mirandese you (“I”), Latin ego (“I”), Ancient Greek ἐγώ (egṓ, “I”), Latvian es (“I”), Lithuanian aš (“I”), Armenian ես (es, “I”), Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian я (ja, “I”), Bulgarian аз (az, “I”), Czech já (“I”), Macedonian јас (jas, “I”), Polish and Slovak ja (“I”), Serbo-Croatian jȃ (“I”), Slovene jȁz (“I”), Northern Kurdish ez (“I”), Sanskrit अहम् (ahám, “I”), Hittite 𒌑𒊌 (ūk, “I”). See also English ich. Doublet of ego and Ich.

Capitalized since the 13th century to mark it as a distinct word and prevent misreading and omission (due to cursive writing).

pronoun me · my · mine · myself · i · ich

  1. first person, personal, pronoun, singular, subjective The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical subject, of a sentence. I drove my sister and myself to school.
  2. first person, nonstandard, personal, pronoun, singular, subjective The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical object, of a sentence. Mom drove my sister and I to school.

Similar: ich, ch, my ass, m'ass, muggins, yours truly, Ah

noun I's · i · ich

  1. countable, uncountable The ego. They are called men, becauſe each of them poſſeſſeth the whole man, though not wholly. There are by their means two I’s in every believer, Rom. vii. 15. For that which I do, I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. There is not one part of the man that is in Chriſt,

I⁴

  • /aɪ/
  • [aɪ] UK
  • [äj] UK
  • /aː/ Northumbria
  • [ɑj] British, Southern, Standard
  • [ʌj] British, Southern, Standard
  • [aj] US
  • [ɑɪ] US
  • [aː] Southern US
  • [ɑe̯] Australia, New Zealand
  • /aɪ/ Ireland
  • /əɪ/
  • /ɐɪ/
  • /oɪ/
  • /ɛɪ/ Ulster
  • [æj] Canada
  • [äɪ] Canada
  • [ɐɪ] dialectal
  • [əj] dialectal
  • [ai˨] Hong Kong
  • [ai˧˥]

Sounds like eye, aye, ay · Rhymes with -aɪ

Where it comes from

Old French i, from Latin ī, from Etruscan I (i).

letter i · Is · I's

  1. letter, uppercase The ninth letter of the English alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.

I⁵

  • /aɪ/
  • [aɪ] UK
  • [äj] UK
  • /aː/ Northumbria
  • [ɑj] British, Southern, Standard
  • [ʌj] British, Southern, Standard
  • [aj] US
  • [ɑɪ] US
  • [aː] Southern US
  • [ɑe̯] Australia, New Zealand
  • /aɪ/ Ireland
  • /əɪ/
  • /ɐɪ/
  • /oɪ/
  • /ɛɪ/ Ulster
  • [æj] Canada
  • [äɪ] Canada
  • [ɐɪ] dialectal
  • [əj] dialectal
  • [ai˨] Hong Kong
  • [ai˧˥]

Sounds like eye, aye, ay · Rhymes with -aɪ

Where it comes from

Abbreviation.

noun Is

  1. US, abbreviation, countable, uncountable Abbreviation of interstate.interstate I-95 begins at Houlton, Maine and terminates at Miami, Florida, connecting numerous major cities in the East Coast.
  2. abbreviation, countable, uncountable Abbreviation of instrumental case.instrumental case
  3. abbreviation, countable, uncountable Abbreviation of instruction.instruction
  4. US, abbreviation, countable, uncountable Abbreviation of independent.independent

I⁶

  • /aɪ/
  • [aɪ] UK
  • [äj] UK
  • /aː/ Northumbria
  • [ɑj] British, Southern, Standard
  • [ʌj] British, Southern, Standard
  • [aj] US
  • [ɑɪ] US
  • [aː] Southern US
  • [ɑe̯] Australia, New Zealand
  • /aɪ/ Ireland
  • /əɪ/
  • /ɐɪ/
  • /oɪ/
  • /ɛɪ/ Ulster
  • [æj] Canada
  • [äɪ] Canada
  • [ɐɪ] dialectal
  • [əj] dialectal
  • [ai˨] Hong Kong
  • [ai˧˥]

Sounds like eye, aye, ay · Rhymes with -aɪ

interjection

  1. obsolete Obsolete spelling of aye.aye

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