ī

See also: Appendix:Variations of "i"
ī U+012B, ī
LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH MACRON
Composition:i [U+0069] + ◌̄ [U+0304]
← Ī
[U+012A] 		Latin Extended-A Ĭ →
[U+012C]

Translingual

Letter

ī (upper case Ī)

  1. The letter i with a macron.

See also

Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iː/

Verb

ī

  1. (transitive) to drink

Latvian

Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [iː]

Letter

Ī

ī (lower case, upper case Ī)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called garais ī and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

Despite being an independent letter with its own position in the Latvian alphabet, Ī/ī, like all long vowels with macrons, is treated as a simple I/i in alphabetized lists (e.g., in dictionaries).

See also

Livonian

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /iː/

Letter

ī (upper case Ī)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Livonian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Maori

Letter

ī (upper case Ī)

  1. The seventh letter of the Maori alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Etymology

Cognate with Hawaiian ʻīʻī (“rancid, sour, moldy”).

Verb

ī

  1. to ferment, to sour, to spoil
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