i-

i-

1. (obsolete) Used to form past participles of verbs. Alternative spelling of y-

From Latin ī-, assimilated form of in- used before g-.

i-

1. A form of the prefix in-, used before gn, as in ignoble, ignominy, and ignore.

i-

1. (Jamaica) Used to transform English words into words used by Rastafarians with a special meaning.

• Rastafarian on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rastafarian I words on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Popularized in the name of the iMac line of computers (1998).

i-

1. Alluding to the Internet.
2. Alluding to digital devices and computer programs, especially those that are cutting-edge or fashionable, and those from Apple.
   • 1999, Melissa August, “Ad Infinitum”, in Time, v 154, November 1, p 39:

     I-WHAT?! Seems everyone's ripping off the iMac idea. Take this parody ad for the fruity-colored “iBrator” at sleeplessknights.com.

   • 2011, Scotty Smith, Everyday Prayers: 365 Days to a Gospel-Centered Faith, Baker Books, →ISBN, 178:

     In our “iWorld” of new gadgets and cool widgets, help us to ponder the reality that over half of the population on the earth exists on three of our American dollars, or less, a day.

• (internet): e-
• (alluding to Apple products): Mc- (alluding to McDonald's)

i-

1. second person plural agent marker

• Swintha Danielsen, Tania Granadillo, Agreement in two Arawak languages, in The Typology of Semantic Alignment (edited by Mark Donohue, Søren Wichmann) (2008, →ISBN, page 398

The i vowel common to other correlatives, such as ki- and ti-, without the defining consonant.

i-

1. Any-, some-. (Indeterminate correlative prefix.)

• iu (“some individual, someone”)
• io (“some object, something”)
• ia (“some kind of”)
• ies (“belonging to some person, someone's”)
• iel (“some manner/degree, somehow”)
• ie (“some place, somewhere”)
• iam (“some time, sometime”)
• iom (“some quantity, some of”)
• ial (“for some reason”)

Assimilated form of in-, before gn-.

ī-

1. Alternative form of in-

i-

1. prefix element of i- -ana

• an-

From Proto-Nguni *í-, from Proto-Bantu *gɪ́-.

i- (medial yi-)

1. they; class 4 subject concord.

Contracted from earlier ili-, from Proto-Nguni *íli-, from Proto-Bantu *dɪ́-, plus augment. Originally the pronominal and verbal concord, it displaced the older Bantu noun prefix *ì-. The tone was lowered by analogy with other noun prefixes.

i-

1. Class 5 noun prefix; form of ili- used before stems of more than one syllable.

From Proto-Nguni *í-, from Proto-Bantu *jɪ́-.

i- (medial yi-)

1. he, she, it; class 9 subject concord.

i-

1. Class 9 noun prefix; form of in- used before stems beginning with l, m or n.

From Proto-Germanic *iz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈiː/

ī-

1. same, selfsame

From Proto-Nguni *í-, from Proto-Bantu *gɪ́-.

i- (medial yi-)

1. they; class 4 subject concord.

From Proto-Nguni *ín-, from Proto-Bantu *jɪ̀-ǹ-.

i-

1. Class 9 noun prefix.

From Proto-Nguni *í-, from Proto-Bantu *jɪ́-.

i- (medial yi-)

1. he, she, it; class 9 subject concord.

i-

1. Class 9 noun prefix; form of in- used before stems beginning with l, m or n.

From Proto-Nguni *í-, from Proto-Bantu *gɪ́-.

i- (medial yi-)

1. they; class 4 subject concord.

From Proto-Nguni *í-, from Proto-Bantu *jɪ́-.

i- (medial yi-)

1. he, she, it; class 9 subject concord.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *i-

i-

1. to do something to a person or a thing (expresses various kinds of actions)
   1. i- + tapon (“throw”)=itapon (“to throw”)

   Itapon mo 'yan sa basurahan.

   Throw that to the garbage.

2. to perform the action of the verb for someone or something (expresses various kinds of actions)
   1. i- + bili (“buy”)=ibili (“to buy something for someone”)

   Ibili mo ako ng saging.

   Buy me bananas.

1. https://learningtagalog.com/grammar/verbs/verb_affixes/i_1.html
2. https://learningtagalog.com/grammar/verbs/verb_affixes/i_2.html

• IPA^(key): /ʔi/

i-

1. (transitive) First person plural subject + third person singular object.
2. (transitive) Second person singular subject + third person inverse number object.
3. (transitive) Third person singular subject + third person inverse number object.
4. (transitive) Third person plural subject + third person singular object.
5. (formative) Third person plural subject.

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey-.

i-

1. to go

From Proto-Nguni *í-, from Proto-Bantu *gɪ́-.

i- (medial yi-)

1. they; class 4 subject concord.

i-

1. Class 5 noun prefix; form of ili- used before stems of more than one syllable.

From Proto-Nguni *í-, from Proto-Bantu *jɪ́-.

i- (medial yi-)

1. he, she, it; class 9 subject concord.

From Proto-Nguni *í-, from Proto-Bantu *gɪ́-.

i- (medial yi-)

1. they; class 4 subject concord.

Contracted from earlier ili-, from Proto-Nguni *íli-, from Proto-Bantu *dɪ́-, plus augment. Originally the pronominal and verbal concord, it displaced the older Bantu noun prefix *ì-. The tone was lowered by analogy with other noun prefixes.

i-

1. Class 5 noun prefix.

i-

1. Class 9 noun prefix; form of in- used before stems beginning with l, m or n.

From Proto-Nguni *í-, from Proto-Bantu *jɪ́-.

i- (medial yi-)

1. he, she, it; class 9 subject concord.

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “i-”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “i-”