yi
Dazaga
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
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
References
- “thin, (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 5 May 2018.
Murrinh-Patha
References
- Mark Abley, Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages (2003)
Norman
Etymology
From older *ye, from Old French ueil, from Vulgar Latin oclus, from Latin oculus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- (“eye; to see”).
Derived terms
- 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
- 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
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
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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