ibi

See also: IBI, Ibi, ībi, and ɩbɩ

Alabama

Etymology

Cognate with Choctaw abi (“to kill”), Chickasaw abi (“to kill”)

Verb

ibi

  1. to kill

Balinese

Adverb

ibi

  1. yesterday

Basque

Etymology

10th century; from Proto-Basque *ib- (compare ibar (“valley”)).

Noun

ibi

  1. ford

Interlingua

Etymology

From Italian vi, Spanish ahí, Portuguese aí, and French y, ultimately from Latin ibi.

Adverb

ibi

  1. there

Synonyms

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. The same suffix is present in ubi ~ ubī.

Pronunciation

Adverb

ibi or ibī (not comparable)

  1. in that place, there
    Synonym: illīc
    Ubī est id? — Ibī est id.
    Where is it? — There it is.
  2. (of time) then, thereupon
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: ivi, vi ⇒ quivi
  • Sardinian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Piedmontese: i
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Old French: iv (Oaths of Strasbourg)
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: hi
    • Occitan: i
    • Aragonese: i, bi, ibi
      • Ribagorçan: ie (enclitic)
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • ⇒ Asturian: ehí
    • Navarro-Aragonese: ive, ye
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: i, y
      • ⇒ Galician: aí
      • ⇒ Portuguese: aí
    • Old Spanish: y
  • Borrowings:

See also

Pronunciation

Noun

ībī

  1. dative/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, →ISBN, page 295
  • Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “ibi”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 312

Phuthi

Noun

íbí class 9 (plural tíbí class 10)

  1. sin

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Sardinian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin ibi. Found in various Nuorese-speaking towns, along with the variant ibe.

Adverb

ibi

  1. there

References

  • Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964), “íƀi”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg

Timucua

Noun

ibi

  1. water

References

  • Julian Granberry, A Grammar and Dictionary of the Timucua Language (1993, →ISBN

Tiruray

Noun

ibi

  1. iguana

Yoruba

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ì.bì/

Noun

ìbì

  1. pushing, rolling, swaying of something
    Ìbì omi òkun ― The rolling of the waves of the ocean
Derived terms
  • ìbìwó

Etymology 2

ì- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ bi (“to question, enquire”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ì.bī/

Noun

ìbi

  1. questioning, question, enquiring
    Synonym: ìbéèrè
Derived terms
  • ìbiléèrè

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ì.bī/, /ì.bí/

Noun

ìbi or ìbí

  1. ancestry
Derived terms
  • Aníbijùwọ́n
  • Afìbijà
  • Ìbiloyè

Etymology 4

From ì- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ bí (“to give birth to”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ì.bí/

Noun

ìbí

  1. birth
  2. ancestry
Derived terms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ī.bí/

Noun

ibí

  1. this place or location, here
    Ibí l'a gbé sin baba ― Here is where we buried the father

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ī.bī/

Noun

ibi

  1. place, locus, location
    Synonyms: ibẹ̀, ibè
    Ibi òmíràn-án jẹ́ ilẹ̀ rere; ibi òmíràn-án jẹ́ ilẹ̀ aṣálẹ̀ ― Some places have good soil, other places are barren land
  2. position, point, degree
  3. somewhere
  4. reason, on account of, perspective of
    Ibi ajá ni a ti ń mọ òkúrorò àpọ́n ― It is from the perspective of the dog that we know of the mean bachelor (proverb on perspective)
Derived terms
  • ibi ìṣeré (“playground”)
  • ibi ìtura (“public bar”)
  • ibikíbi
  • Ọláòṣebìkan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ī.bī/

Noun

ibi

  1. placenta
    Synonym: ibi-ọmọ
    Ijọ́ a bá ríbi ni ibi í wọlẹ̀ ― The day we see the placenta is the day we bury it in the ground

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ī.bī/

Noun

ibi

  1. evil, wickedness
    Synonyms: búburú, ìwà burúkú, bìlísì
    Wọ́n fi ibi san án fun olóore ― They repaid their benefactor with evil
  2. misfortune, tragedy
    Ibi bá wọ́n ― They encountered great misfortune
Derived terms
  • oníbi
  • ìfura-pé-ibi-ńbọ̀ (“premonition”)
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