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Apiaká

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈʔɨɐ]

Noun

ih

water
river

Further reading

Čestmír Loukotka, ‎Johannes Wilbert (editor), Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968, Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, University of California), page(s) 116 (ih)
Wolf Dietrich, Correspondências fonológicas e lexicais entre Karitiána (Arikém, Tupí) e Tupí-Guaraní (ýa)
Alexandre Jorge Pádua, Contribuição para a fonologia da língua Apiaká (Tupí-Guarani) (2007) [ˈʔɨɐ]
In contrast, Robert Gordon Latham, Elements of Comparative Philology (1862) has equat-daramau and Carl Friedrich Philip von Martius, Glossaria linguarum brasiliensium (1867) has equat-deramau.

Bahnar

Etymology

From Proto-Bahnaric *ʔih. Compare Jarai ih.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʔih/

Pronoun

ih

you (second person singular)

Juǀ'hoan

Pronunciation

The murmured vowel IPA^(key): /i̤/

Letter

ih (upper case Ih)

A letter of the Juǀ'hoan alphabet, written in the Latin script.

K'iche'

Noun

ih

(Classical K'iche') back (anatomy)

Middle English

Pronoun

ih

alternative form of I (“I”)

Mokilese

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *(si-)ia

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈiː/

Pronoun

ih

third person singular; she, he, it

Usage notes

Unlike English, Mokilese third person pronouns contain no gender or animacy distinction, so ih is the equivalent of all three English singular third person pronouns.

See also

Mokilese personal pronouns
singular	1st person	ngoah, ngoahi
	2nd person	koah, koawoa
	3rd person	ih
dual	1st person exclusive	kisa
	1st person inclusive	kama
	2nd person	kamwa
	3rd person	ara, ira
plural	1st person exclusive	kisai
	1st person inclusive	kamai
	2nd person	kamwai
	3rd person	arai, irai
remote plural	1st person exclusive	kihs
	1st person inclusive	kimi
	2nd person	kimwi
	3rd person	ihr

Navajo

Interjection

ih

(expression of revulsion) yuck!, ew!

Noun

ih

filth, dirt, grime

Synonyms

chin

Derived terms

References

Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 240

Old English

Alternative forms

ic
ich

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ix/, [iç]

Pronoun

ih

(Northumbrian) I

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ik, from Proto-Germanic *ik, *ek, possibly from a preform *eką from Proto-Indo-European *eǵh₂óm (“I”), or directly from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂ (“I”).

Cognates include Old Saxon and Old Dutch ik, Old English iċ, Old Norse ek, Gothic 𐌹𐌺 (ik).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ix/

Pronoun

ih

I

Inflection

Old High German personal pronouns
			nominative	genitive	dative	accusative
singular	first person		ih (ihha, ihcha)	mīn	mir	mih
	second person		dū	dīn	dir	dih
	third person	m	er (her)	(sīn)	imu, imo	inan, in
		f	siu; sī, si	ira (iru, iro)	iru, iro	sia
		n	iz	es, is	imu, imo	iz
plural	first person		wir	unsēr	uns	unsih
	second person¹		ir	iuwēr	iu	iuwih
	third person	n	sie	iro	im, in	sie
		f	sio	sio
		n	siu	siu

¹ Also polite singular form

Descendants

Middle High German: ich, ig
- Alemannic German: ich, ig, i
  - Sensler: [iː]^[1]
  - Swabian: i
    - Sathmar Swabian: i
- Bavarian: i
  - Cimbrian: ich (Setti Comuni); i (Luserna)
  - Gottscheerish: iχ, ī, i (unstressed); iχχe (emphatic)
  - Mòcheno: i
- Central Franconian: ich, eich, ech
  - Hunsrückisch: äijsch
    - Hunsrik: ich [ɪç]^[2]
  - Britten: [æɪ̯ʃ], [ɪʃ]^[3]
  - Kölsch: ich^[4]
- East Central German:
  - Erzgebirgisch: iech
  - Silesian East Central German: iech
  - Upper Saxon German: isch, ische
- East Franconian: i, iech
- German: ich
- Luxembourgish: ech
- Rhine Franconian:
  - Hessian: aisch
  - Pennsylvania German: ich [ɪç]^[5]
- Vilamovian: ych
- Yiddish: איך (ich)
→ Limburgish: ich, iech, ik, iich (Eupen), ech (Southeast Limburgish)

References

^ Schmutz, Christian; Haas, Walter. (2004). Senslerdeutsches Wörterbuch. 2nd edition, Freiburg: Paulusverlag.
^ Altenhofen, Cléo Vilson. (1996). Hunsrückisch in Rio Grande do Sul: Ein Beitrag zur Beschreibung einer deutschbrasilianischen Dialektvarietät im Kontakt mit dem Portugiesischen. (Mainzer Studien zur Sprach- und Volksforschung 21.) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.
^ "ich". In: Besse, Maria. (2004). Britter Wörterbuch. Losheim am See: Verein für Heimatkunde in der Gemeinde Losheim am See.
^ Online-Wörterbuch der Akademie för uns kölsche Sproch, Stichwort »ich« (URL).
^ Kelz, Heinrich P. (1971). Phonologische Analyse des Pennsylvaniadeutschen. Hamburg: Buske.

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ix/

Pronoun

ih ? (Cyrillic spelling их)

of them (clitic genitive plural of ȏn (“he”))
of them (clitic genitive plural of òno (“it”))
of them (clitic genitive plural of òna (“she”))
them (clitic accusative plural of ȏn (“he”))
them (clitic accusative plural of òno (“it”))
them (clitic accusative plural of òna (“she”))

Declension

Inflection of 3rd-person pronouns
	singular			plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	ȏn	òna	òno	òni	òne	òna
genitive	njȅga, ga	njȇ, je	njȅga, ga	njȋh, ih	njȋh, ih	njȋh, ih
dative	njȅmu, mu	njȏj, joj	njȅmu, mu	njȉma, im	njȉma, im	njȉma, im
accusative	njȅga, ga, nj	njȗ, ju, je	njȅga, ga, nj	njȋh, ih	njȋh, ih	njȋh, ih
vocative	—	—	—	—	—	—
locative	njȅm, njȅmu	njȏj	njȅm, njȅmu	njȉma	njȉma	njȉma
instrumental	njȋm, njíme	njȏm, njóme	njȋm, njíme	njȉma	njȉma	njȉma

Sumerian

Romanization

ih

romanization of 𒄴 (iḫ)

Trimuris

Noun

ih

woman

References

Mark Donohue, Syntactic and Lexical Factors Conditioning the Diffusion of Sound Change, Oceanic Linguistics 44 (2005), page 428

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