इ

See also: ड, ड़, and ङ

इ	U+0907, इ DEVANAGARI LETTER I

← आ
[U+0906]

Devanagari

ई →
[U+0908]

Translingual

Pronunciation

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

Letter

इ (i)

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.

Derived terms

ि

Hindi

Pronunciation

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

Letter

इ • (i)

The third vowel in Hindi.

See also

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

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

अय् (ay)
ई (ī)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hi-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁i-. Cognate with Ancient Greek εἶμι (eîmi, “I go”), Mycenaean Greek 𐀂𐀍𐀳 (i-jo-te), Latin eo (“I go”), Old Persian 𐎠𐎡𐎫𐎡𐎹 (aitiy, “goes”), Luwian 𒄿𒄿 (iti, “goes”), Hittite 𒄿𒄿𒀀𒀜𒋫 (i-ya-at-ta /iyatta/, “goes”), Old Church Slavonic ити (iti), Lithuanian eiti.

Root

इ • (i)

to go

Derived terms

Terms derived from इ (i)

अय (áya, “going”)
अयन (áyana, “road, path”)
अर्थेत् (arthét, “active, hasty”)
आय (āyá, “arrival, approach”)
आयन (ā́yana, “coming, approaching”)
आयिन् (āyín, “coming or hastening near”)

आयु (āyú, “living, movable”)
इत (itá, “gone”)
इत्य (itya, “to be gone to”)
इत्या (ityā́, “going, stepping”)
इत्वन् (itvan, “going”)
इत्वर (itvara, “going, walking”)

एति (éti, “he goes”)
एतृ (etṛ́, “goer, approacher”)
एम (éma, “course, way”)
एमन् (éman, “course, way”)
एव (éva, “going, moving, speedy, quick”)

References

Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 163
William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 7

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