English

Proper noun

Yi

1. An ethnic group who live primarily in mountainous areas of southwest China
2. Any of a family of Tibeto-Burman languages spoken by this people

Translations

Languages in language family:

Dazaga

Noun

yi

1. water

References

• 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

Mandarin

Romanization

yi

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

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Murrinh-Patha

Conjunction

yi

1. and

References

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

Norman

Alternative forms

• ieil (Guernsey)
• u (continental Normandy)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

yi m ‎(plural ièrs)

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

Synonyms

• (eye): cricot, criquinne (childish)

Derived terms

Related terms

Tedaga

Noun

yi

1. water

References

• 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

Toba

Noun

yi

1. older/elder brother

References

• 2012, María Belén Carpio and Marisa Censabella, Clauses as noun modifiers in Toba, in Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas (edited by Bernard Comrie and ‎Zarina Estrada Fernández; ISBN 902720683X)