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See also: y', у, ყ, and Appendix:Variations of "y"
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y U+0079, y
LATIN SMALL LETTER Y
← x
[U+0078] 		Basic Latin z →
[U+007A]
Character variations
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ʸ U+02B8, ʸ
MODIFIER LETTER SMALL Y
← ʷ
[U+02B7] 		Spacing Modifier Letters ʹ →
[U+02B9]
ｙ U+FF59, ｙ
FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER Y
← ｘ
[U+FF58] 		Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms ｚ →
[U+FF5A]
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Translingual

English Wikipedia has an article on:
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Letter

y (upper case Y)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

See also

Pronunciation

  • Pronunciation of IPA [yː]:(file)

Symbol

English Wikipedia has an article on:
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y

  1. (metrology) yocto-.
  2. (IPA) a close front rounded vowel: the German and Chinese ü-sound.
  3. (NAPA) the English y-sound, IPA [j].
  4. (superscript ⟨ʸ⟩, IPA) [y]-coloring, a [y] on- or off-glide (diphthong), or a weak, fleeting, epenthetic or echo [y].
  5. (superscript ⟨ʸ⟩, NAPA) palatalization, equivalent to IPA [ʲ].
  6. Denoting an item that is twenty-fifth in a list.
  • Letter styles
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    Uppercase and lowercase versions of Y, in normal and italic type
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    Uppercase and lowercase Y in Fraktur

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Other representations of Y:

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English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Letter

y (lower case, upper case Y, plural ys or y's)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the English alphabet, called wy or wye and written in the Latin script.
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Etymology 2

Abbreviations.

y

  1. (Stenoscript) the sound sequence /ɔɪ̯/.
  2. (Stenoscript) Abbreviation of why.
  3. (Stenoscript) the suffix -ry or -rry.

Noun

y

  1. Abbreviation of year.
    • 2003, Howard Tanner, Sonia Jones, Becoming a Successful Teacher of Mathematics:
      Consider the following questions selected from the tests and estimate the proportion of Y8 pupils you would expect to answer correctly.
  2. (UK, television) Abbreviation of youth, usually followed by an age appropriate for the content so marked.
    Y7
Derived terms

Adverb

y (not comparable)

  1. (slang, text messaging, Internet slang) Abbreviation of why.

Particle

y

  1. (computing) Abbreviation of yes.

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Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin et, from Proto-Indo-European *éti.

Conjunction

y

  1. and

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin et, from Proto-Indo-European *éti.

Conjunction

y

  1. and

Pronoun

y (y (or -y), plural ys/yos or -ys/-yos)

  1. Pronoun for the third-person singular indirect object.
    da-y pan
    give him/her bread

Usage notes

  • Usually seen as -y

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

Letter

y lower case (upper case Y)

  1. The thirty-first letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

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Basque

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /i ɡreko/, [i ɣ̞re̞.ko̞]

Letter

y (lower case, upper case Y)

  1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Basque alphabet, called i greko and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  • Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns.

See also

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Catalan

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Letter

y (lower case, upper case Y)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Catalan alphabet, called i grega and written in the Latin script.
See also

Etymology 2

Conjunction

y

  1. obsolete form of i (“and”)
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Cornish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *eið, from Proto-Celtic *esyo m and *esyās f; compare Old Irish a (“his, her, its, their”) and Sanskrit अस्य (asyá, “his, its”) and अस्यास् (asyā́s, “her”).

Determiner

y (triggers soft mutation)

  1. (possessive) his, its (with reference to masculine nouns)

Pronoun

y (triggers soft mutation)

  1. his, its (with reference to masculine nouns)

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More information number, person ...

1 Uncommon.
2 hun and ins have been suggested as non-binary 3rd person singular pronouns, though these have not yet officially adopted.
3 Infrequently used as a formal alternative to the singular.

S Triggers soft mutation A Triggers aspirate mutation M Triggers mixed mutation

Etymology 2

Pronoun

y

  1. (Standard Cornish) alternative form of i (“they”) (third person plural pronoun)

Etymology 3

From Proto-Celtic *ide- (compare Breton e, ez, Welsh y, yth, Old Irish id), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁i-dʰei- (compare Latin ibi (“here”), Avestan 𐬌𐬛𐬁 (idā, “here, in the same way”), and Sanskrit इह (ihá, “here”)).

Particle

y (triggers mixed mutation)

  1. Inserted before the verb when the verb precedes the subject
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Czech

Letter

y (lower case, upper case Y)

  1. The thirty-ninth letter of the Czech alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Dutch

Alternative forms

  • ij (in some words)

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ɛɪ/, /iˈɡrɛk/, /ˌɣrik.sə ˈɛɪ/
  • Audio:(file)

Letter

y (lower case, upper case Y)

  1. the twenty-fifth letter of the Dutch alphabet

Usage notes

In certain dialects the letter is pronounced similar to IPA: /ji:/. In these dialects, they will actually write "y" such as in "jy" (IPA: /ji:/) instead of modern standard Dutch jij (IPA: /jɛɪ/).

See also

  • Previous letter: x
  • Next letter: z
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Estonian

Pronunciation

Letter

y (lower case, upper case Y)

  1. The thirty-second letter of the Estonian alphabet, called igrek / üpsilon and written in the Latin script.

See also

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Fala

Conjunction

y

  1. alternative form of i

Faroese

Pronunciation

Letter

y (upper case Y)

  1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Faroese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Finnish

Etymology

The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on those of Swedish, German and Latin, and was first used in the mid-16th century. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and y for information on the development of the glyph itself. In particular, the use of ⟨y⟩ for /y/ follows the Swedish orthography, which in turn follows Latin.

Pronunciation

Letter

y (lower case, upper case Y)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called yy and written in the Latin script.

Derived terms

compounds

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Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Inherited from Latin hīc.

Pronoun

y (ORB, broad)

  1. it (third-person singular neuter dative)

See also

More information nominative, accusative ...

1 Disjunctive or object of a preposition.   2 Generally preceded by a definite article.

References

  • y in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
  • y in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

French

Etymology 1

From i grec (“Greek i”), referring to the letter upsilon (Υ), originally borrowed from the Greek alphabet, as opposed to "Latin i" (I).

Pronunciation

  • (letter name) IPA(key): /i.ɡʁɛk/

Letter

y

  1. a letter in the French alphabet, after x and before z

Etymology 2

10th century; from Old French i, from Latin hīc (“here”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰi-ḱe (“this, here”)), with meaning influenced by Old French iv (“there, thither”), itself from Latin ibī. Derivation from the latter poses difficulty from a phonetic standpoint. Compare Catalan hi.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

y (adverbial)

  1. there (at a place)
    Il est dans la maison. Il y est.
    He is in the house. He is there.
  2. there, thither (to there)
    Nous allons au Mexique. Nous y allons.
    We are going to Mexico. We are going there.
  3. Used as a pronoun to replace an adverbial phrase starting with à.
    Je pense à mon pays. J'y pense.
    I think about my country. I think about it.
    1. With verbs: see Appendix:French verbs followed by à for verbs which use this structure.
    2. (archaic) With adjectives. Only used with a handful of adjectives (the most common combination being y compris, which is a special case), mainly in legal terminology.
      personnes y nommées ― Persons named there(in)
      procédures y afférentes ― Related procedures
      documents y relatifs ― Related documents
      eaux y affluentes ― Tributary waters
Derived terms
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1 The disjunctive (tonic) forms are also used after an explicit preposition (de/d‘, à, pour, chez, dans, vers, sur, sous, ...), instead the accusative, dative, genitive, locative, or reflexive forms, where a preposition is implied.
2 Il is also used as an impersonal nominative-only pronoun.
3 On can also function as a first person plural (although agreeing with third person singular verb forms).
4 The nominal indeterminate form ce (demonstrative) can also be used with the auxiliary verb être as a plural, instead of the proximal or distal gendered forms.
5 The reflexive third person singular forms (se or s’) for accusative or dative are also used as third person plural reflexive.
6 Vous is also used as the polite singular form, in which case the plural disjunctive tonic vous-mêmes becomes singular vous-même.
7 Ils, eux and eux-mêmes are also used when a group has a mixture of masculine and feminine members.

Etymology 3

Eye dialect spelling or contraction of il and ils.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

y

  1. (Quebec, colloquial) he: alternative form of il
  2. (Quebec, colloquial) they: alternative form of ils
  3. (Quebec, colloquial) they: alternative form of elles

Further reading

Fula

Pronunciation

Letter

y (lower case, upper case Y)

  1. A letter of the Fula alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

See also

German

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /yː/, /y/, /ʏ/, /i/, /ɪ/, /j/
  • (letter name) IPA(key): /ˈʏpsilɔn/
  • Audio:(file)

Letter

y n (strong, genitive y, plural y)

  1. the letter y

Guaraní

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

y

  1. water

Derived terms

Haitian Creole

Etymology

Contraction of yo.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

y

  1. contraction of yo

Hungarian

Icelandic

Ido

Indonesian

Italian

Kabuverdianu

Kamayurá

Kankanaey

Kashubian

Khumi Chin

Ladin

Latgalian

Latin

Lithuanian

Lower Sorbian

Malay

Mandinka

Manx

Mbyá Guaraní

Middle English

Middle French

Navajo

Norwegian

Norwegian Nynorsk

Nupe

Old English

Old Tupi

Papiamentu

Polish

Portuguese

Quechua

Romanian

Silesian

Slovak

Spanish

Swedish

Tagalog

Tày

Tlingit

Turkish

Turkmen

Vietnamese

Võro

Wayampi

Welsh

Yele

Yoruba

Zulu

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