ih

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ih"

Apiaká

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʔɨɐ]

Noun

ih

1. water
2. 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

1. you (second person singular)

Juǀ'hoan

Pronunciation

• The murmured vowel IPA^(key): /i̤/

Letter

ih (upper case Ih)

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

K'iche'

Noun

ih

1. (Classical K'iche') back (anatomy)

Middle English

Pronoun

ih

1. Alternative form of I (“I”)

Mokilese

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *(si-)ia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiː/

Pronoun

ih

1. 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	first person		ngoah, ngoahi
	second person		koah, koawoa
	third person		ih
dual	first person inclusive		kisa
	first person exclusive		kama
	second person		kamwa
	third person		ara, ira
plural	first person inclusive		kisai
	first person exclusive		kamai
	second person		kamwai
	third person		arai, irai
remote plural	first person inclusive		kihs
	first person exclusive		kimi
	second person		kimwi
	third person		ihr

Navajo

Interjection

ih

1. (expression of revulsion) yuck!, ew!

Noun

ih

1. filth, dirt, grime

Synonyms

• chin

Derived terms

• baaʼih
• bahooʼih

Old English

Alternative forms

• ic
• ich

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ix/, [iç]

Pronoun

ih

1. (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 *éǵh₂om (“I”), or directly from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂ (“I”).

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ix/

Pronoun

ih

1. I

Inflection

Old High German personal pronouns

Number	Person	Gender	Nominative	Genitive	Dative	Accusative
Singular	First		ih (ihha, ihcha)	mīn	mir	mih
	Second		dū	dīn	dir	dih
	Third	Masculine	er (her)	(sīn)	imu, imo	inan, in
		Feminine	siu; sī, si	ira (iru, iro)	iru, iro	sia
		Neuter	iz	es, is	imu, imo	iz
Plural	First		wir	unsēr	uns	unsih
	Second		ir	iuwēr	iu	iuwih
	Third	Masculine	sie	iro	im, in	sie
		Feminine	sio	iro	im, in	sio
		Neuter	siu	iro	im, in	siu
Polite form	Second		ir	iuwēr	iu	iuwih

Descendants

• Middle High German: ich, ig
  • Alemannic German: ich, ig, i
    • Sensler: [iː]
    • 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]
    • Britten: [æɪ̯ʃ], [ɪʃ]
    • Kölsch: ich
  • 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]
  • Vilamovian: ych
  • Yiddish: איך (ich)
• → Limburgish: ich, iech, ik, iich (Eupen), ech (Southeast Limburgish)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ix/

Pronoun

ih (Cyrillic spelling их)

1. of them (clitic genitive plural of ȏn (“he”))
2. of them (clitic genitive plural of òno (“it”))
3. of them (clitic genitive plural of òna (“she”))
4. them (clitic accusative plural of ȏn (“he”))
5. them (clitic accusative plural of òno (“it”))
6. 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

1. Romanization of 𒄴 (iḫ)

Trimuris

Noun

ih

1. woman

References

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