See i- in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for i- meaning in Zulu (3.1kB)
{
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "zu",
"2": "bnt-pro",
"3": "*gɪ́-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Bantu *gɪ́-",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Bantu *gɪ́-.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "í-",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "yí-",
"tags": [
"medial"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "zu",
"2": "prefix",
"3": "medial",
"4": "yí-",
"cat2": "subject concords",
"head": "í-"
},
"expansion": "í- (medial yí-)",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Zulu",
"lang_code": "zu",
"pos": "prefix",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "46 0 21 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Zulu entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "52 5 6 37",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Zulu subject concords",
"parents": [
"Subject concords",
"Concords",
"Prefixes",
"Morphemes",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"they; class 4 subject concord."
],
"id": "en-i--zu-prefix-3CCXCibR",
"links": [
[
"they",
"they"
]
],
"tags": [
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"word": "i-"
}
{
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "zu",
"2": "bnt-pro",
"3": "*dɪ́-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Bantu *dɪ́-",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Contracted from earlier íli-, from Proto-Bantu *dɪ́-, plus augment. Originally the pronominal and verbal concord, it displaced the older Bantu noun prefix *ì-. The tone was lowered by analogy with other noun prefixes.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "î-",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "zu",
"2": "prefix",
"cat2": "noun prefixes",
"head": "î-"
},
"expansion": "î-",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Zulu",
"lang_code": "zu",
"pos": "prefix",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Class 5 noun prefix."
],
"id": "en-i--zu-prefix-cbRRX~ys",
"tags": [
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"word": "i-"
}
{
"etymology_number": 3,
"forms": [
{
"form": "í-",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "zu",
"2": "prefix",
"cat2": "noun prefixes",
"head": "í-"
},
"expansion": "í-",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Zulu",
"lang_code": "zu",
"pos": "prefix",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "in- used before stems beginning with l"
},
{
"word": "m or n"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Class 9 noun prefix; form of in- used before stems beginning with l, m or n."
],
"id": "en-i--zu-prefix-Fo1bWxGS",
"links": [
[
"in-",
"in-#Zulu"
]
],
"tags": [
"class-9",
"form-of",
"morpheme",
"noun",
"prefix"
]
}
],
"word": "i-"
}
{
"etymology_number": 4,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "zu",
"2": "bnt-pro",
"3": "*jɪ́-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Bantu *jɪ́-",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Bantu *jɪ́-.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "í-",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "yí-",
"tags": [
"medial"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "zu",
"2": "prefix",
"3": "medial",
"4": "yí-",
"cat2": "subject concords",
"head": "í-"
},
"expansion": "í- (medial yí-)",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Zulu",
"lang_code": "zu",
"pos": "prefix",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"he, she, it; class 9 subject concord."
],
"id": "en-i--zu-prefix-3c4S3xpq",
"links": [
[
"he",
"he"
],
[
"she",
"she"
],
[
"it",
"it"
]
],
"tags": [
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"word": "i-"
}
{
"categories": [
"Zulu entries with incorrect language header",
"Zulu lemmas",
"Zulu prefixes",
"Zulu subject concords",
"Zulu terms derived from Proto-Bantu",
"Zulu terms inherited from Proto-Bantu"
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "zu",
"2": "bnt-pro",
"3": "*gɪ́-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Bantu *gɪ́-",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Bantu *gɪ́-.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "í-",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "yí-",
"tags": [
"medial"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "zu",
"2": "prefix",
"3": "medial",
"4": "yí-",
"cat2": "subject concords",
"head": "í-"
},
"expansion": "í- (medial yí-)",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Zulu",
"lang_code": "zu",
"pos": "prefix",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"they; class 4 subject concord."
],
"links": [
[
"they",
"they"
]
],
"tags": [
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"word": "i-"
}
{
"categories": [
"Zulu entries with incorrect language header",
"Zulu lemmas",
"Zulu noun prefixes",
"Zulu prefixes",
"Zulu subject concords",
"Zulu terms derived from Proto-Bantu",
"Zulu terms inherited from Proto-Bantu"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "zu",
"2": "bnt-pro",
"3": "*dɪ́-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Bantu *dɪ́-",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Contracted from earlier íli-, from Proto-Bantu *dɪ́-, plus augment. Originally the pronominal and verbal concord, it displaced the older Bantu noun prefix *ì-. The tone was lowered by analogy with other noun prefixes.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "î-",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "zu",
"2": "prefix",
"cat2": "noun prefixes",
"head": "î-"
},
"expansion": "î-",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Zulu",
"lang_code": "zu",
"pos": "prefix",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Class 5 noun prefix."
],
"tags": [
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"word": "i-"
}
{
"categories": [
"Zulu entries with incorrect language header",
"Zulu lemmas",
"Zulu noun prefixes",
"Zulu prefixes",
"Zulu subject concords",
"Zulu terms derived from Proto-Bantu",
"Zulu terms inherited from Proto-Bantu"
],
"etymology_number": 3,
"forms": [
{
"form": "í-",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "zu",
"2": "prefix",
"cat2": "noun prefixes",
"head": "í-"
},
"expansion": "í-",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Zulu",
"lang_code": "zu",
"pos": "prefix",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "in- used before stems beginning with l"
},
{
"word": "m or n"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Class 9 noun prefix; form of in- used before stems beginning with l, m or n."
],
"links": [
[
"in-",
"in-#Zulu"
]
],
"tags": [
"class-9",
"form-of",
"morpheme",
"noun",
"prefix"
]
}
],
"word": "i-"
}
{
"categories": [
"Zulu entries with incorrect language header",
"Zulu lemmas",
"Zulu prefixes",
"Zulu subject concords",
"Zulu terms derived from Proto-Bantu",
"Zulu terms inherited from Proto-Bantu"
],
"etymology_number": 4,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "zu",
"2": "bnt-pro",
"3": "*jɪ́-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Bantu *jɪ́-",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Bantu *jɪ́-.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "í-",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "yí-",
"tags": [
"medial"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "zu",
"2": "prefix",
"3": "medial",
"4": "yí-",
"cat2": "subject concords",
"head": "í-"
},
"expansion": "í- (medial yí-)",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Zulu",
"lang_code": "zu",
"pos": "prefix",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"he, she, it; class 9 subject concord."
],
"links": [
[
"he",
"he"
],
[
"she",
"she"
],
[
"it",
"it"
]
],
"tags": [
"morpheme"
]
}
],
"word": "i-"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Zulu dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (46b31b8 and c7ea76d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.