y

Letter

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

Symbol

 * 1)  Symbol for the prefix yocto-.
 * 2)  a : the German ü-sound.
 * 3)  the English y-sound, IPA.
 * 4)  -coloring, a  on- or off-glide (diphthong), or a weak, fleeting, epenthetic or echo.
 * 5)  palatalization, equivalent to IPA.
 * 6) Denoting an item that is twenty-fifth in a list.

Etymology 2
Abbreviations.


 * 1)  the sound sequence /ɔɪ̯/.
 * 2)  the suffix  or -rry.
 * 1)  the suffix  or -rry.

Noun

 * , usually followed by an age appropriate for the content so marked.
 * Y7
 * , usually followed by an age appropriate for the content so marked.
 * Y7

Etymology
From, from.

Conjunction

 * 1) and

Etymology
From, from.

Conjunction

 * 1) and

Pronoun

 * 1) Pronoun for the third-person singular indirect object.

Usage notes

 * Usually seen as

Usage notes

 * Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns.

Etymology 1
From, from and ; compare 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 and.

Etymology 2
From, plural of , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬

Pronoun

 * 1)   third person plural pronoun

Etymology 3
From (compare 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬), from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬).

Letter

 * 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 (IPA: /jɛɪ/).

Etymology
In particular, the use of for  follows the Swedish orthography, which in turn follows Latin.

Etymology
.

Pronoun

 * 1) it

Etymology 1
From, referring to the letter upsilon (Υ), originally borrowed from the Greek alphabet, as opposed to "Latin i" (I).

Letter

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

Etymology 2
10th century; from, from (ultimately from ), with meaning influenced by , itself from. Derivation from the latter poses difficulty from a phonetic standpoint. Compare 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1) there (at a place)
 * 2) there, thither (to there)
 * 3) With verbs: see Appendix:French verbs followed by à for verbs which use this structure.
 * 4)  With adjectives. Only used with a handful of adjectives (the most common combination being, which is a special case), mainly in legal terminology.
 * 1) With verbs: see Appendix:French verbs followed by à for verbs which use this structure.
 * 2)  With adjectives. Only used with a handful of adjectives (the most common combination being, which is a special case), mainly in legal terminology.
 * 1) With verbs: see Appendix:French verbs followed by à for verbs which use this structure.
 * 2)  With adjectives. Only used with a handful of adjectives (the most common combination being, which is a special case), mainly in legal terminology.

Etymology 3
Eye dialect spelling or contraction of and.

Pronoun

 * 1)  he:
 * 2)  they:
 * 3)  they:

Noun

 * 1) water

Etymology
Contraction of.

Usage notes
As shown in the alphabet below, this letter normally occurs in Hungarian words only as part of four digraphs:, , , and (with their long counterparts: ). Aside from them, the terms containing defined in an extensive Hungarian monolingual dictionary are, , ,  /  / , , , , ​/​, ​/​​/​, , , , , , ,  ​/​, , , , , , , , , , , ,  and the letter itself. Additionally, a newer and more comprehensive but as yet incomplete dictionary contains, , , and. (The forms, , , , , , and are also mentioned as alternative forms in the former volume, but their current standard spelling is , , , , , , and .)

Proper names written with include the country names, , , and  and the capital names , , and. Other names deriving from Latin alphabets are also retained (such as English etc., German, French , and Polish ). Otherwise, this letter is usually transcribed in country and city names, for example, , , and.

Usage notes

 * The letter Y is not considered part of the Italian alphabet. It is found mainly in loanwords.

Etymology
From and.

Conjunction

 * 1) and

Particle

 * 1) no

Conjunction

 * 1) and

Pronoun

 * 1) they, them personal pronoun

Noun

 * 1) water

Adverb

 * 1) there (in a given place)

Usage notes
The letter $⟨y⟩$ is used for the phoneme, but also for before a front vowel, where that is pronounced.

Usage notes

 * Perhaps the most troublesome sound in Norwegian. Even some native speakers tend to merge it into.

Etymology 1
From, from. Akin to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  yew

Etymology 2
From, influenced by.

Verb

 * 1) to crawl

Etymology 1
, from. .

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) water
 * 2) liquid
 * 3) humidity
 * °N, °W
 * 1) juice,
 * 2) broth
 * °N, °W
 * 1) juice,
 * 2) broth

Adjective

 * 1) humid

Etymology 2
, from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) river

Etymology
From and  and.

Conjunction

 * 1) and

Pronunciation
Letter name:

Letter name:

Phoneme:

Adverb

 * 1) really, truly

Usage notes
Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns.

Pronunciation

 * in the conjunction (see below) and in word-final diphthongs (e.g., ); otherwise.

Etymology 2
or, from.

Conjunction

 * 1) and
 * 2) * 1605, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quijote de la Mancha1, Chapter I:
 * "es"

- Es, pues, de saber que este sobredicho hidalgo, los ratos que estaba ocioso —que eran los más del año—, se daba a leer libros de caballerías, con tanta afición y gusto, que olvidó casi de todo punto el ejercicio de la caza y aun la administración de su hacienda; y llegó a tanto su curiosidad y desatino en esto, que vendió muchas hanegas de tierra de sembradura para comprar libros de caballerías en que leer, y, así, llevó a su casa todos cuantos pudo haber dellos.


 * 1)  and
 * 2)  plus, and
 * 3)  well
 * 4)  what about, how about, where is/are the
 * 1)  well
 * 2)  what about, how about, where is/are the
 * 1)  what about, how about, where is/are the

Usage notes

 * Before words that begin with the sound, the form  is used instead.

Etymology 1
. Each pronunciation has a different source:
 * Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by.
 * Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by Baybayin character.
 * Abecedario pronunciation is from.

Etymology 2
.

Conjunction

 * 1)  and

Verb

 * 1) to imitate, to mimic

Preposition

 * 1) along
 * 2) according to
 * 1) according to
 * 1) according to

Etymology 1
.

Pronoun

 * 1)  he, him
 * 1)  he, him
 * 1)  he, him

Etymology 2
.

Adverb

 * 1)   (like)

Etymology 3
.

Noun

 * 1)  medicine; physician

Letter

 * 1)  It is preceded by .

Mutation

 * y cannot be mutated but, being a vowel, does take, for example with the word :

Derived terms

 * Digraph sequences:

Etymology 2
From, , from , ultimately from.

Article

 * 1) the

Etymology 3
Merger of two formerly distinct particles, and.
 * (1) from earlier, from , from (compare 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬), from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬).
 * (2) from earlier, from , from , from (compare 🇨🇬, ); akin to 🇨🇬, dialectal 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬.

Particle

 * 1)  that
 * 2)  which, whom
 * 1)  which, whom
 * 1)  which, whom

Usage notes

 * y is almost always omitted in colloquial speech.
 * y is used to mean 'that' (i.e. mark a subordinate clause) when the subordinate clause begins with an affirmative form of  not in the present tense, or another affirmative verb in any tense apart from the preterite.

Usage notes
After a consonant, the letter indicates palatalization, except that expected *ty and *nty are spelled $⟨ch⟩$ and $⟨nj⟩$.

Derived terms

 * The digraph $⟨yw⟩$ is used after a consonant m mb p for in labio-palatalized $⟨myw mbyw pyw⟩$.
 * Palatalized $⟨dny, dmy, dpy, dy, kpy, ky, ly, mby, mty, my, ndy, nmy, ny, py, tpy, vy⟩$.