Translingual

Letter

इ (i)

1. 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)

1. 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 𒄿𒄿𒀀𒋫𒋫 ‎(iyatta, “goes”), Old Church Slavonic ити ‎(iti), Lithuanian eiti.

Root

इ • ‎(i)

1. to go

Derived terms

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