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i

character
/ə//aɪ//aj/US/æj/CA

Etymology

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”), Vandalic *ic (“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).

  1. inherited from *eǵh₂óm✻ — “I”
  2. inherited from *ek✻
  3. inherited from *ik✻ — “I”
  4. inherited from ic
  5. inherited from a

Definitions

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

  2. The ninth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called i and written in the Latin…

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

  3. The name of the Latin script letter I/i.

    • the position of an i-dot (the dot of an i)
    • i-mutation, i-umlaut
  4. ›+ 9 more definitions

    1. Alternative letter-case form of I.

      • As YouTuber Alex Elmslie tweeted, “ ‘once COVID is over’ is starting to sound a lot like ‘when i fix my sleep schedule.’ ”

    2. The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical subject, of a sentence.

      • I drove my sister and myself to school.
      • […]It ill beſeemes a knight of gentle ſort, / Such as ye haue him boaſted, to beguyle / A ſimple maide, and worke ſo hainous tort, / In ſhame of knighthood, as I largely can report.
      • Here I am, sir.

    3. The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical object, of a sentence.

      • Mom drove my sister and I to school.
      • 1980, Bob Marley, Redemption Song Old pirates, yes, they rob I Sold I to the merchant ships Minutes after they took I From the bottomless pit.

    4. The ego.

      • Am I a double personality? Are there two “I’s” in my anatomy—one a conscious “I,” giving attention to what I am doing, and another unconscious “I,” giving attention to something entirely different?

    5. Abbreviation of interstate.

      • I-95 begins at Houlton, Maine and terminates at Miami, Florida, connecting numerous major cities in the East Coast.
      • Drivers like the idea of increasing traffic flow and reducing congestion on the portion of I-80 between Davis and West Sacramento.

    6. Abbreviation of instrumental case.

    7. Abbreviation of instruction.

    8. Abbreviation of independent.

    9. Obsolete spelling of aye.

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Derived

and I claim my five pounds, as I live and breathe, can I smoke, could I get the bill, damned if I know, I can't lie, I come in peace, I do not know it, I don't mind, I doubt it, I fear, I fuck you not, I hardly even know her, I hardly know her, I kill you later, I know it, I like to see you try, I like turtles, I'll be, I'll believe it when I see it, I'm in this photo and I don't like it, I never did, I never miss, I-novel, in this essay I will, I's, I shit you not, I swear, I think not, I wouldn't piss on someone if they were on fire, lyrical I, may I pass through, or should I say, if I care, though I say it who should not, though I say it who should not say it, what am I bid, what am I looking at, what can I tell you, what did I tell you · +1 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for i. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA