# yi
## Translingual
### Symbol

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

## English
### Etymology 1

From Ukrainian ї (ji).

#### Letter

yi (lower case, upper case YI, plural yis or yi's)
* The Cyrillic letter Ї ї, used in the Ukrainian and Rusyn alphabets.

### Etymology 2

From Armenian յի (yi).

#### Letter

yi (lower case, upper case YI, plural yis or yi's)
* The Armenian letter Յ, յ.

## Afar
### Etymology

Cognate with Saho yi.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈji/ [ˈjɪ]

### Determiner

yí
* my

#### See also
### References

* 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)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

## Cameroon Pidgin
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ji/

### Pronoun

yi
* 3rd person singular object personal pronoun

#### Usage notes

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

#### See also
### Determiner

yi
* 3rd person singular possessive determiner

#### See also
## Dama (Sierra Leone)
### Noun

yi
* Alternative form of ji

## Dazaga
### Noun

yi
* 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

## Japanese
### Romanization

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.

## Lashi
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ji˧]
* Hyphenation: yi

### Particle

yi
* Used to mark the previous noun as plural.

### References

* Mark Wannemacher (2011) A phonological overview of the Lacid language‎, Chiang Mai: Payap University., page 27
* Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎, Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis), page 56

## Mandarin
### Romanization

yi
* Nonstandard spelling of yī.
* Nonstandard spelling of yí.
* Nonstandard spelling of yǐ.
* Nonstandard spelling of yì.

#### Usage notes

* 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.

## Middle English
### Determiner

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

## Murrinh-Patha
### Conjunction

yi
* 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: /ji/
* (Sark) IPA: /jɪ/
* Audio (Jersey):(file)

### Noun

yi m (plural ièrs)
* (Jersey, anatomy) eye
* (Jersey) opening of lobster pot

#### Synonyms

* (eye): cricot, criquinne (childish)

#### Derived terms

* 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”)

#### Related terms

* 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”)

## Salar
### Noun

yi
* Alternative form of yiy

## Tedaga
### Noun

yi
* 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
* older/elder brother

### References

* 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

## Wutunhua
### Etymology

From Mandarin 一 (yī).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [i]

### Numeral

yi
* one
    Synonym: yi-zek

### References

* Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun‎, University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN

## Yoruba
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jí/

#### Noun

yí
* The name of the Latin-script letter Y/y.

#### See also

* (Latin-script letter names) lẹ́tà; á, bí, dí, é, ẹ́, fí, gí, gbì, hí, í, jí, kí, lí, mí, ní, ó, ọ́, pí, rí, sí, ṣí, tí, ú, wí, yí

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jí/

#### Verb

yí
* (transitive) to topple
* (intransitive) to be toppled

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jí/

#### Verb

yí
* (intransitive) to rotate

##### Derived terms

* yíyí

### Etymology 4
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jī/

#### Verb

yi
* (intransitive) to be tough

##### Derived terms

* yíyi