і
Translingual
    
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Alternative forms
    
- ї (orthographical variant)
Gallery
    
 Regular. Regular.
 Italics. Italics.
Belarusian
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- (phoneme) IPA(key): /i/
Letter
    
і • (i) (lower case, upper case І)
See also
    
Etymology 2
    
From Proto-Slavic *i, from Proto-Indo-European *ei, an early locative singular determiner, formed from the root *h₁e-, *h₁o-. Compare Ancient Greek εἰ (ei, “if”), Gothic 𐌴𐌹 (ei, “and, so that, be it”). Follows from ablative Proto-Indo-European *ed.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): [ji]
Kazakh
    
| Cyrillic | і (ı) | 
|---|---|
| Arabic | ى ,ٸ | 
| Latin | ı | 
Pronunciation
    
- (phoneme) IPA(key): /ɘ/
Letter
    
і • (ı) (lower case, upper case І)
Khakas
    
    Letter
    
і • (ì) (lower case, upper case І)
Old Church Slavonic
    
    Letter
    
і • (i) (lower case, upper case І)
See also
    
- (Old Cyrillic-script letters) А а, Б б, В в, Г г, Д д, Е е (Є є), Ж ж, Ѕ ѕ (Ꙃ ꙃ), З з (Ꙁ ꙁ), И и, І і (Ї ї), Ꙉ ꙉ, К к, Л л, М м, Н н, О о, П п, Р р, С с, Т т, Оу оу (Ꙋ ꙋ), Ф ф, Х х, Ѡ ѡ (Ѿ ѿ), Ц ц, Ч ч, Ш ш, Щ щ, Ъ ъ, Ꙑ ꙑ, Ь ь, Ѣ ѣ, Ꙗ ꙗ, Ѥ ѥ, Ю ю, Ѫ ѫ, Ѭ ѭ, Ѧ ѧ (Ꙙ ꙙ), Ѩ ѩ (Ꙝ ꙝ), Ѯ ѯ, Ѱ ѱ, Ѳ ѳ, Ѵ ѵ, Ҁ ҁ
Russian
    
    Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): [i]
Letter
    
і • (i) (lower case, upper case І)
- (obsolete) Letter dotted i (Cyrillic) (in Russian: и десятери́чное n (i desjateríčnoje, “i decimal”). Replaced by the letter И (I) in the spelling reform of 1917.
Rusyn
    
    Etymology 1
    
From Proto-Slavic *i, from Proto-Indo-European *ei, an early locative singular determiner, formed from the root *h₁e-, *h₁o-. Compare Ancient Greek εἰ (ei, “if”), Gothic 𐌴𐌹 (ei, “and, so that, be it”). Follows from ablative Proto-Indo-European *ed.
Synonyms
    
- а (a)
Ukrainian
    
    Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): [i]
- Audio (male) - (file) 
- Audio (female) - (file) 
Letter
    
і • (i) (lower case, upper case І)
See also
    
Etymology 2
    
From Old Ukrainian и (i), from Proto-Slavic *i, from Proto-Indo-European *ei, an early locative singular determiner, formed from the root *h₁e-, *h₁o-. Compare Greek εἰ (eἰ, “if”), Gothic 𐌴𐌹 (ei, “and, so that, be it”). Follows from ablative Proto-Indo-European *ed.
Usage notes
    
- The forms і (i) (used after consonants or at the beginning of a clause) and й (j) (used after vowels) differ in pronunciation but are considered variants of the same word.
Etymology 3
    
Primal interjection in response to pain, fear, surprise. Common to many languages.
References
    
- Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “і”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
 Латинська абетка on the Ukrainian  Wikipedia.Wikipedia uk Латинська абетка on the Ukrainian  Wikipedia.Wikipedia uk