io

Abbreviation of English and Ido Ido

io

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

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek Ἰώ (Iṓ, “Io”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪəʊ

io (plural ios)

1. A type of moth, the io moth.
   • 1936, Paul Griswold Howes, Hand book for the curious:

     These lines appear to serve as roadways or guides to any stragglers that may have hung back for some reason known only to an io.

From Latin iō; compare Ancient Greek ἰώ (iṓ, “oh!”).

io

1. (rare) An exclamation of joy or triumph.
   • 1913, Crowley, Aleister, “Hymn To Pan”, in Book 4‎^[1], University of California Libraries, Magick in Theory and Practice:

     Do as thou wilt, as a great god can,
     O Pan! Io Pan!
     Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! I am awake
     In the grip of the snake.

• -oi, OI, Oi, oi, oi!

io

1. Alternative form of iou (“I”)

io

1. who

• iö

From Latin io, from Ancient Greek ἰώ (iṓ). Doublet of jo.

io

1. (dated) io (exclamation of triumph)

• Matthias de Vries, Lambert Allard te Winkel (1864) “io”, in Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, published 2001

From i- (indeterminate correlative prefix) +‎ -o (correlative suffix of objects).

• IPA^(key): [ˈio]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: i‧o

io (accusative ion)

1. something (indeterminate correlative of objects)

• The plural forms ioj and iojn are nonstandard and rare.

• io ajn (“anything”)

Esperanto correlatives

		Interrogative	Demonstrative	Indefinite	Universal	Negative
		ki-	ti-	i-	ĉi-	neni-
Kind of, sort of	-a	kia	tia	ia	ĉia	nenia
Reason	-al	kial	tial	ial	ĉial	nenial
Time	-am	kiam	tiam	iam	ĉiam	neniam
Place	-e	kie	tie	ie	ĉie	nenie
Motion	-en	kien	tien	ien	ĉien	nenien
Manner	-el	kiel	tiel	iel	ĉiel	neniel
Possessive	-es	kies	ties	ies	ĉies	nenies
Demonstrative pronoun	-o	kio	tio	io	ĉio	nenio
Amount	-om	kiom	tiom	iom	ĉiom	neniom
Demonstrative determiner	-u	kiu	tiu	iu	ĉiu	neniu

Probably borrowed from Italian io.

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.o/

io

1. I

   Io te ama.

   I love you.

Inherited from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆.

io (first-person singular, plural noi)

1. I

• eo (archaic)
• jo (obsolete)

Inherited from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆.

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.o/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: ì‧o

io (personal, first person, possessive mio)

1. I (the first-person singular nominative pronoun)

• Italian being a pro-drop language, subject pronouns are mostly omitted, both in the written and spoken language, as the inflected verb is conjugated by person. An example would be: Mangio una mela, which is much more common than Io mangio una mela, where the subject can be inferred from the inflected form mangio; similarly È carina instead of Lei è carina. The explicit usage of personal pronouns may sound redundant to a native speaker, except when it is used in order to emphasize the subject. (Io mangio una mela could be interpreted as I am eating an apple and you are not).

• → Interlingua: io

io

1. Rōmaji transcription of いお

Echoic; compare Greek ἰώ (iṓ), or English yo.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈi.oː/, [ˈioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.o/, [ˈiːo]

iō

1. an exclamation of joy: hurray, hurrah, yay
2. an exclamation of pain: oh, ah, alas
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.447–448:

     illa quidem clāmābat ‘iō, cārissima māter, auferor!’

     Indeed, she was crying out, “Oh! mother dearest – I am being taken away!”
     (See Persephone. The full context implies a cry of anguish as well as a plea for help from Persephone's mother, Ceres. The alternative ‘‘Help!’’ calls for an imperative such as ‘‘ferte auxilium!’’.)

3. an exclamation for getting attention: hey, oi, look, quick

• “io”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “io”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• io in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “io”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[2]
• “io”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “io”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Compare Kristang yo.

io

1. Alternative form of iou: I, me

   io sam ― I am

From ua from Proto-Polynesian *ua – see ua for more details.

io (plural ioio)

1. sinew; tendon

   Synonym: ua

2. muscle

   Synonym: ua

3. vein

   Synonym: ua

4. strand of rope
5. lock of hair

   Synonym: makawe

6. warp, lengthwise weaving threads

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “io”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, pages 90-1
• “io” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

• i̯o

Inherited from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆.

io

1. I

• ijo, je
• ieo, j', i'

Inherited from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆.

• IPA^(key): /ˈi/, /ˈiə/, /ˈjə/

io

1. I (the first-person singular nominative pronoun)

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1638: “volete che ci vada io” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

From Proto-West Germanic *aiw.

io

1. always, every time, continuously
   • 1981, Arend Quak, chapter 1, in Die altmittel- und altniederfränkischen Psalmen und Glossen. Nach den Handschriften und Erstdrucken neu herausgegeben. [The Old Middle and Old Lower Franconian Psalms and Glosses. Republished after the manuscripts and original publications.] (Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur; 47)‎^[3], Amsterdam: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 69:

     Duncla uuerthin ougon iro that sia ne gesian in rukgi iro io an crumbe.

     May their eyes be blinded so they (can) not see, and may their back keep getting bent!

   • 1981, Arend Quak, chapter 1, in Die altmittel- und altniederfränkischen Psalmen und Glossen. Nach den Handschriften und Erstdrucken neu herausgegeben. [The Old Middle and Old Lower Franconian Psalms and Glosses. Republished after the manuscripts and original publications.] (Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur; 47)‎^[4], Amsterdam: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 71:

     An thi sang min io.

     For you is always my song.

2. ever, at some point, sometime
   • 1971, Willy Sanders, editor, (Expositio) Willerammi Eberspergensis abbatis in canticis canticorum. Die Leidener Handschrift. (Kleine deutsche Prosadenkmäler des Mittelalters; 9)‎^[5] (overall work in Latin and Old High German), München: Wilhelm Fink, page 52:

     So wer ouch thurgh godes willan thiro wereld arbeyde muothe, wie magh her ie ze meeron ruowan cuman, thanne thaz her uollecume 'ad fontem totius boni'?

     And whoever by God's will is tired by the burdens of the world, how can he ever attain peace better than that he reaches the source of all good?

• ie

• “ie”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-West Germanic *aiw, whence also Old English ā, Old Saxon eo, Old Norse ei, Old Dutch ēwa, io.

io

1. always

• >? German: je

io

1. Obsolete form of iuo.

• io in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.o/

io

1. (transitive) to marry

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[6], Pacific linguistics

• owó
• oghó, eghó

Cognate with Nupe ewó, Edo ígho, Urhobo ígho

IPA^(key): /īó/, /ī.ɣó/

ió

1. (Ekiti) money, cowry

   Synonym: eó