yi

See also: Yi, yī, yí, yǐ, and yì

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

Mandarin

Romanization

yi

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

Usage notes

English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle English

Determiner

yi

(chiefly Northern and northern East Midland dialectal) Alternative form of þi

References

“thin, (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 5 May 2018.

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^(key): /ji/
(Sark) IPA^(key): /jɪ/
Audio (Jersey) (file)

Noun

yi m (plural ièrs)

(Jersey, anatomy) eye
(Jersey) opening of lobster pot

Synonyms

(eye): cricot, criquinne (childish)

Derived terms

Terms derived from yi

à l'yi nu (“with the naked eye”)
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”)
à veue dg'yi (“in sight”)
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

Terms related to yi

apèrchévance (“glimpse”)
à pèrte dé veue (“out of sight”)
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”)

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

2012, María Belén Carpio and Marisa Censabella, Clauses as noun modifiers in Toba, in Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas (edited by Bernard Comrie and ‎Zarina Estrada Fernández; →ISBN

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