इ

 

• IPA^(key): /i/, /ɪ/ (may vary by language)

इ (i)

1. a vowel of the Devanagari script

• 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.

• ि

• IPA^(key): [i]

इ • (i)

1. The third vowel in Dhivehi, written in Devanagari script

• IPA^(key): /ɪ/, /i/
• IPA^(key): /iː/ (at the end of words)

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इ • (i)

1. the third vowel in Hindi

• (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 ^{(Category: Hindi letters) [edit]}

• IPA^(key): /i/

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इ • (i)

1. The third vowel in Marathi.

• IPA^(key): [i]
• Phonetic Devanagari: इ

इ • (i)

1. The third vowel in Nepali.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /i/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /i/

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *Hay-, 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.

• अय् (ay), ई (ī)

इ • (i)

1. to go

The aorist is normally supplied by the root गा (gā): अगात् (ágāt).

Primary Verbal Forms

Secondary Forms

Non-Finite Forms

Derived Nominal Forms

Prefixed Root Forms

From Proto-Indo-European *éy. See also अयम् (ayam).

• अय् (ay)

इ • (i)

1. base of the nominative and accusative singular dual and plural of the demonstrative pronoun इदम् (idam), ‘this’ or ‘that’

• 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