ibi
Alabama
Etymology
Cognate with Choctaw abi (“to kill”), Chickasaw abi (“to kill”)
Verb
ibi
- to kill
Balinese
Adverb
ibi
- yesterday
Basque
Etymology
10th century; from Proto-Basque *ib- (compare ibar (“valley”)).
Noun
ibi
- ford
Interlingua
Etymology
From Italian vi, Spanish ahí, Portuguese aí, and French y, ultimately from Latin ibi.
Adverb
ibi
- there
Synonyms
- illac
Latin
Etymology 1
From Proto-Italic *iðei or Proto-Italic *ifei with iambic shortening, from the pronominal stem Proto-Indo-European *éy, whence also is. In the first case cognate to Sanskrit इह (iha, “here”), Proto-Indo-Aryan *Hidʰá (“here”), Avestan 𐬌𐬛𐬁 (idā, “here, in the same way”), in the latter recalls the ins.pl. suffix *-bʰi.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈi.bi/, [ˈɪ.bɪ]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈi.biː/, [ˈɪ.biː] (Archaic, Poetic)
Adverb
ibi or ibī (not comparable)
- in that place, there
- Ubī est id? — Ibī est id.
- Where is it? — There it is.
- (of time) then, thereupon
Derived terms
- ibī̆dem
Descendants
- Asturian: ehí
- Catalan: hi
- Ido: ibe
- Italian: vi
- Occitan: i
- Old French: iv
- Old Portuguese: y
- Galician: i (archaic), aí
- Portuguese: i (archaic), aí
- Old Spanish: y
- Spanish: ahí
See also
- ubī̆
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈiː.biː/
Noun
ībī
- dative singular of ībis
- ablative singular of ībis
References
- ibi in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ibi in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ibi in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “ibī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 295
Timucua
Noun
ibi
- water
References
- Julian Granberry, A Grammar and Dictionary of the Timucua Language (1993, →ISBN
Tiruray
Noun
ibi
- iguana