इ
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Translingual
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /i/, /ɪ/ (may vary by language)
Letter
इ (i)
- a vowel of the Devanagari script
Usage notes
- Its matra, used to modify the inherent vowel in a consonant is written ि. For example the first consonant क with the matra looks like: कि. The matra should appear before the consonant it modifies, though it is pronounced after.
Derived terms
Dhivehi
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [i]
Letter
इ • (i)
- The third vowel in Dhivehi, written in Devanagari script
Hindi
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪ/, /i/
- IPA(key): /iː/ (at the end of words)
Audio: (file)
Letter
इ • (i)
See also
- (matra): ि (i)
- Devanagari script letters: अ, आ, इ, ई, उ, ऊ, ऋ, ए, ऐ, ओ, औ, अं, अः, अँ, क, ख, ग, घ, ङ, च, छ, ज, झ, ञ, ट, ठ, ड, ढ, ण, त, थ, द, ध, न, प, फ, ब, भ, म, य, र, ल, व, श, ष, स, ह, त्र, ज्ञ, क्ष, क़, ख़, ग़, ज़, झ़, ड़, ढ़, फ़ [edit]
Marathi
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /i/
Audio: (file)
Letter
इ • (i)
Nepali
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [i]
- Phonetic Devanagari: इ
Audio: (file)
Letter
इ • (i)
Sanskrit
Alternative scripts
Alternative scripts
- ই (Assamese script)
- ᬇ (Balinese script)
- ই (Bengali script)
- 𑰂 (Bhaiksuki script)
- 𑀇 (Brahmi script)
- ဣ (Burmese script)
- ઇ (Gujarati script)
- ਇ (Gurmukhi script)
- 𑌇 (Grantha script)
- ꦆ (Javanese script)
- 𑂅 (Kaithi script)
- ಇ (Kannada script)
- ឥ (Khmer script)
- ອິ (Lao script)
- ഇ (Malayalam script)
- ᡳ (Manchu script)
- 𑘂 (Modi script)
- ᠢ (Mongolian script)
- 𑦢 (Nandinagari script)
- 𑐂 (Newa script)
- ଇ (Odia script)
- ꢄ (Saurashtra script)
- 𑆅 (Sharada script)
- 𑖂 (Siddham script)
- ඉ (Sinhalese script)
- 𑩐𑩑 (Soyombo script)
- 𑚂 (Takri script)
- இ (Tamil script)
- ఇ (Telugu script)
- อิ (Thai script)
- ཨི (Tibetan script)
- 𑒃 (Tirhuta script)
- 𑨀𑨁 (Zanabazar Square script)
Pronunciation
- (Vedic) IPA(key): /i/
- (Classical Sanskrit) IPA(key): /i/
Etymology 1
From Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hay-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey-. Cognate with Ancient Greek εἶμι (eîmi, “I go”), Mycenaean Greek 𐀂𐀍𐀳 (i-jo-te), Old Persian 𐎠𐎡𐎫𐎡𐎹 (aitiy, “goes”), Luwian 𒄿𒋾 (i-ti /iti, idi/, “goes”), Hittite 𒄿𒄿𒀀𒀜𒋫 (i-ya-at-ta /iyatta/, “goes”), Old Church Slavonic ити (iti), Lithuanian eiti, and Latin eo, iter whence English itinerary.
Alternative forms
Root
इ • (i)
- to go
Usage notes
The aorist is normally supplied by the root गा (gā): अगात् (ágāt).
Derived terms
Sanskrit terms belonging to the root इ (1 c, 14 e)
Terms derived from the Sanskrit root इ (24 c, 0 e)
- Primary Verbal Forms
- Secondary Forms
- ईयते (īyate) (Passive)
- आययति (āyayati) (Causative)
- अयियिषते (ayiyiṣate) (Desiderative)
- इयिषति (iyiṣati) (Desiderative)
- ईयायते (īyāyate) (Intensive)
- Non-Finite Forms
- Derived Nominal Forms
- अर्थेत् (arthét, “active, hasty”)
- अय (áya, “going”)
- अयन (áyana, “road, path”)
- आय (āyá, “arrival, approach”)
- आयन (ā́yana, “coming, approaching”)
- आयिन् (āyín, “coming or hastening near”)
- आयु (āyú, “living, movable”)
- इत्या (ityā́, “going, stepping”)
- इत्वन् (itvan, “going”)
- इत्वर (itvará, “going, walking”)
- एतृ (etṛ́, “goer, approacher”)
- एम (éma, “course, way”)
- एमन् (éman, “course, way”)
- एव (éva, “going, moving, speedy, quick”)
- एति (éti, “arrival, approach”)
- एत्य (étya, “having come near”)
- Prefixed Root Forms
- अती (atī)
- अन्तरि (antari)
- अन्वि (anvi)
- अधी (adhī, “to turn the mind towards, to mind, know by heart, go over”)
- अपी (apī)
- अपे (ape)
- अभी (abhī)
- अवे (ave)
- उदि (udi)
- उपे (upe)
- ए (e, “come near, approach; reach, attain; submit”)
- निरि (niri)
- नी (nī)
- परी (parī)
- परे (pare)
- प्रती (pratī)
- प्रे (pre, “come forth, appear; begin; proceed, advance; go forwards; go out”)
- वी (vī)
- समि (sami)
Etymology 2
From Proto-Indo-European *ís. See also अयम् (ayám).
Alternative forms
- अय् (ay)
Pronoun
इ • (i)
- base of the nominative and accusative singular dual and plural of the demonstrative pronoun इदम् (idam), ‘this’ or ‘that’
Derived terms
- इतस् (itás)
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “इ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 163/2-3.
- William Dwight Whitney (1885) The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 7
- Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan][1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 102-3; 185