ʼy

See also: , , and Appendix:Variations of "y"

Avokaya

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˀj/

Letter

ʼy (uppercase ʼY)

  1. A letter of the Avokaya alphabet.

Hausa

Alternative forms

  • ƴ in Niger

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /j̰/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [j̰]

Letter

ʼy (upper case ʼY)

  1. (Nigeria) A letter of the Hausa alphabet, written in the Latin script..

See also

Kayabí

Noun

ʼy

  1. water
  2. river

Further reading

  • Rose Dobson, Aspectos da língua kayabí (1988) and Gramática Prática com Exercícios da Língua Kayabi (1997) ('y)
  • Antônio Augusto Souza Mello, Estudo Histórico da Família Lingüística Tupi-Guarani: Aspectos Fonológicos e Lexicais (2000) (ʔɨ)

Kwak'wala

Alternative forms

  • in Liqʼwala dialect

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jˀ/

Letter

ʼy (upper case ʼY)

  1. A letter of the Kwak'wala alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Xingú Asuriní

Etymology

    Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ʔɨ, from Proto-Tupian *ʔɨ.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈʔɨ/
    • Rhymes:
    • Hyphenation: ʼy

    Noun

    ʼy

    1. water
    2. river
      Synonym: parany

    References

    • Pereira, Antônia Alves (2009), Estudo morfossintático do Asurini do Xingu [Morphosyntactic study of Xingú Asuriní] (in Portuguese), Campinas: Unicamp, →DOI