ie

Abbreviation of English Interlingue.

ie

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Interlingue.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Interlingue terms

ie

1. Alternative form of i.e.
   • 1986 July, “Become a famous composer and appear in ZZAP!”, in Roger Kean, editor, ZZAP! 64, number 15, Ludlow, Shropshire: Newsfield, →OCLC, page 89, column 4:

     Make sure your music software is stand-alone, too (ie, it doesn’t have to be loaded into a utility—we don’t want to have to mess around with bits of wire or umpteen different programs just to hear your maestropiece).

• E/I, EI

ie

1. alternative spelling of ië (“water”)

• e

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

ie

1. yes

• nu

Likely from earlier Middle Dutch hi. Doublet of hij.

• IPA^(key): /i/

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ie

1. (Netherlands, colloquial) unstressed form of hij (“he”)

   Hoe doet ie dat? ― How does he do that?

• Often attached to the preceding word with a hyphen:

Ik denk dat-ie dood is. ― I think it's dead.

• 'ie (obsolete)

Likely from unstressed je.

• IPA^(key): /i/

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ie

1. (Holland, colloquial) Second-person singular, mute form: you

   Heb ie de krant al gelezen? ― Have you already read the newspaper?

• 'ie (obsolete)

Ultimately from Old Dutch io.

• IPA^(key): /i/

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ie

1. (obsolete) always, every time, continuously
2. (obsolete) ever, sometime, at some point

Was entirely replaced by words like altijd ("always, every time") and ooit ("ever, sometime, at some point") by the late 16th century.

• ei

From i- (indeterminate correlative prefix) +‎ -e (correlative suffix of place).

• IPA^(key): /ˈie/

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• Rhymes: -ie
• Syllabification: i‧e

ie (accusative ien)

1. somewhere (indeterminate correlative of place)

• ie ajn (“anywhere”)

ie

1. Rōmaji transcription of いえ

ie

1. (Val Gardena) third-person singular present indicative of ester - is

• IPA^(key): /ɪː/
• IPA^(key): /ɛː/ (before vowelised għ/h + consonant)

ie (upper case Ie)

1. The thirteenth letter of the Maltese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

• Ie was made a letter in its own right only in the 1990s. In older dictionaries, lists, etc., it is treated as i + e.
• Ie is used in stressed syllables only. When unstressed, it is reduced to e or i. In closed syllables, the reduction is generally e; in open syllables it is predominantly i, but both may be possible.
• Before the letters għ, ħ, h, q, the long vowel phonemes i and ie merge. The orthographic distinction is based on etymology and morphological analogy, which causes rather frequent spelling errors even in edited texts.

• (Latin-script letters) ittra; A a, B b, Ċ ċ, D d, E e, F f, Ġ ġ, G g, Għ għ, H h, Ħ ħ, I i, Ie ie, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Ż ż, Z z

• je, i', j' (elided)

ie

1. I (first-person singular subject pronoun)

• French: je, j'
• Norman: jeo, je

• moy
• me
• mien
• mon

ie

1. alternative form of ee (“eye”)

Cognate with Minica Huitoto ie.

• IPA^(key): [ˈijɛ]
• Hyphenation: i‧e

ie

1. that, the aforementioned

• Shirley Burtch (1983), Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎^[1] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 108
• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017), A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[2], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 176

• IPA^(key): /i͜yː/
• Rhymes: -īe

īe (Northumbrian)

1. genitive/dative singular of ēa

ie

1. alternative form of eu

• iie — nonstandard
• ие (ie) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

• IPA^(key): /ˈije/

Inherited from Latin (vestis) līnea (“linen garment”). Compare Old Spanish linia (“a kind of garment”). Doublet of linie (“line”), a later borrowing.

ie f (plural ii)

1. traditional Romanian embroidered blouse

• in

• bluză

Inherited from Latin īlia, plural of īle.

ie f (plural ii) (rare, archaic)

1. the lower part of the abdomen or belly, especially in animals such as livestock
2. the skin that hangs down from the belly of an ox
3. the pastern on a horse

   Synonym: chișiță

4. guts, bowels, or entrails

   Synonyms: măruntaie, viscere

• pântece, vintre

Borrowed from German ja (yes), or perhaps from Latin est ((it) is).

ie

1. (regional, Transylvania) yes

   Synonym: da

• “ie”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

From Middle Welsh ief, ieu, from Proto-Brythonic *ī semos (“that is so”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈiː.ɛ/
• Rhymes: -iːɛ

ie

1. yes, aye

   Synonym: ia

   Antonyms: naci, nage, na

   Ai ef yw dy dad di? Ie, dyna ef.

   Is he your father? Yes, that is he. (Literary, formal.)

   Ydy o eich tad? Ia, dyna fo.

   Is he your dad? Yes, that’s him. (Northern colloquial.)

• Used in the standard language to reply to questions or statements with a non-verbal element fronted for emphasis. For a regular unemphatic verb-initial question or statement, other words of agreement are employed. ie/ia can be found colloquially to answer any type of question.
• This word is found in the standard language and also colloquially in South Wales. In the North, ia is the preferred colloquial form.

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “ie”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies