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

From Ukrainian ї (ji).

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

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)

The Armenian letter Յ, յ.

Cognate with Saho yi.

IPA^(key): /ˈji/ [ˈjɪ]

yí

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)

IPA^(key): /ji/

3rd person singular object personal pronoun

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

Cameroonian Pidgin personal pronouns

	singular	plural
Subject personal pronouns
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

3rd person singular possessive determiner

Cameroonian Pidgin possessive determiners

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

Dama (Sierra Leone)

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Alternative form of ji

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

The hiragana syllable 𛀆 (yi) or the katakana syllable 𛄠 (yi) in Hepburn romanization.
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˧/, [ji˨˧]

(intransitive) to laugh

IPA^(key): /jḭː˧/

(intransitive) to go
Sara jung hkyo yi bye. ― The teacher has gone to school.

IPA^(key): /jiː˧/

necklace

IPA^(key): /ji˧/, [ji˧]

Used to mark the plural of a noun depicting a human being.
Hit mo jocang yi myócò nyit. ― There are many children here.

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

Nonstandard spelling of yī.
Nonstandard spelling of yí.
Nonstandard spelling of yǐ.
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.

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

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

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/

yi m (plural ièrs)

(Jersey, anatomy) eye
(Jersey) opening of lobster pot

(eye): cricot, criquinne (childish)

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”)

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 (“glasses”)
leunettes d'solé (“sunglasses”)
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 (“to see”)
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”)
vèrre d'approche (“magnifying glass”)
veue (“eyesight”)

Alternative form of yiy

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

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

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