ie

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) water
 * ie bit — real water

Interjection

 * 1) yes

Etymology 1
Likely from earlier. .

Pronoun

 * 1)  Third-person singular, masculine, subjective, mute form: he.

Etymology 2
Likely from unstressed.

Pronoun

 * 1)  Second-person singular, mute form: you.

Etymology 3
Ultimately from.

Adverb

 * 1)  always, every time, continuously
 * 2)  ever, sometime, at some point

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

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1) somewhere (indeterminate correlative of place)

Verb

 * 1)   - is

Usage notes

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

Pronoun

 * 1) I (first-person singular subject pronoun)

Etymology 1
Inherited from. , a later borrowing.

Noun

 * 1) traditional Romanian embroidered blouse

Etymology 2
, plural of.

Noun

 * 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
 * 4) guts, bowels, or entrails
 * 1) guts, bowels, or entrails

Etymology 3
, or perhaps from.

Adverb

 * 1)  yes

Etymology
From, , from.

Particle

 * 1) yes, aye

Usage notes

 * Used 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.
 * This word is found in the standard language and also colloquially in south Wales. In the north, is the preferred colloquial form.