Lower case variation of upper case I, from Ancient Greek - letter Ι ("Iota").

1. The ninth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
2. In the Turkish alphabet and its descendants, the lower-case form of dotted capital İ, which contrasts with ı as the lower-case form of dotless capital I.

• (mathematics, imaginary number) abbreviation of imaginary
• (engineering, electric current) abbreviation of French intensité du courant first used by M. André-Marie Ampère
• (computer programming, generic index) abbreviation of index

Lower case form of upper case Roman numeral I, apparently derived from the shape of a notch scored across a tally stick.

1. cardinal number one.
2. (music) minor tonic triad

From Latin i, minuscule of I.

• (phoneme) IPA: /aɪ/, /ɪ/, /i/
• (letter name) enPR: ī, IPA: /aɪ/

1. Letter of the English alphabet

1. The name of the Latin script letter I
   • the position of an i-dot (the dot of an i)
   • i-mutation, i-umlaut

see i/translations

From Old English ic.

• IPA: /aɪ/

1. (nonstandard)

Abbreviations.

1. (stenoscript) a word-initial letter ⟨i⟩
2. (stenoscript) the long vowel /aɪ/ at the end of a word, or before a final consonant that is not /dʒ, v, z/. (Note: the final consonant is not written.)
3. (stenoscript) the words if, is, it, its

From the ett - letter 𐌉, from the Ancient Greek - letter Ι, derived from the Phoenician - letter 𐤉, from the Ancient Egyptian - hieroglyph 𓂝.

1. The ninth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
2. The letter i without a dot above, in both the upper case and the lower case versions.

1. cardinal number one.

• (letter name) enPR: ī, IPA: /aɪ/
  • (America) IPA: [aj]
  • (RP) IPA: [ɑj]
  • (Southern American English) IPA: [aː]
  • (Australia, New Zealand) IPA: [ɑe̯]

From Middle English I (also ik, ich), from Old English ih (also ic, iċċ), from Proto-West Germanic *ik, from Proto-Germanic *ik, *ek ("I"), from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

Cognate with Scots I, ik, A ("I"), Saterland Frisian iek, Western Frisian ik, Dutch ik, Low German ik, German ich, Bavarian i, Yiddish איך, Danish - and Norwegian Bokmål jeg, Norwegian Nynorsk eg, Swedish jag, Icelandic ég, eg ("I"), Gothic 𐌹𐌺, and more remotely with Latin ego, Ancient Greek ἐγώ, Russian я, Lithuanian aš, Armenian ես, Sanskrit अहम्, Hittite 𒌑𒊌. See also English ich. Doublet of ego and Ich.

Capitalized since 13th century to mark it as a distinct word and prevent misreading and omission (due to cursive writing).

1. The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical subject, of a sentence.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗, page 414 ↗:

     […] It ill beſeemes a knight of gentle ſort, / Such as ye haue him boaſted, to beguyle / A ſimple maide, and worke ſo hainous tort, / In ſhame of knighthood, as I largely can report.

   • 2016, [https://web.archive.org/web/20170925022505/https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/lets-learn-english-lesson-4/3168920.html VOA Learning English] (public domain)

     I know I have a pen, though…

2. (nonstandard) The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical object, of a sentence.

   Mom drove my sister and I to school.

   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. […] (First Quarto), [London]: […] J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, scene ii] ↗:

     Sweet Baſſanio, My ſhips haue all miſcarried, my Creditors grow cruell, my eſtate is very low: my bond to the Iew is forfet, and ſince in paying it, it is impoſſible I ſhould liue, all debts are cleered betweene you and I if I might but ſee you at my death.

   • 1980, Bob Marley, Redemption Song

     Old pirates, yes, they rob I
     Sold I to the merchant ships
     Minutes after they took I
     From the bottomless pit.

• ich, ch
• my ass, m'ass (vulgar slang)
• muggins, yours truly
• Ah (phonetic spelling, African-American Vernacular English)

see i/translations

i

1. (metaphysics) The ego.

   Synonyms: me#Noun

• Old French - i, from Latin - ī, from Etruscan I (i).

1. Letter of the English alphabet

Abbreviation.

i

1. (US, roadway) Interstate.

   I-95 begins at Houlton, Maine and terminates at Miami, Florida, connecting numerous major cities in the East Coast.

2. (grammar) Abbreviation of instrumental case
3. (computing) Abbreviation of instruction
4. (US politics) Abbreviation of independent

1. Obsolete spelling of aye