"long i" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: long i's [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|'s}} long i (plural long i's)
  1. (phonetics) the English vowel sound /aɪ/ in the words "fine" and "like", often conventionally written ⟨ī⟩. (The presence of a long vowel is often signaled in spelling by a silent e that follows it, as in the examples here, or by the fact that a subsequent consonant is single rather than doubled, as for example in siting versus sitting). Coordinate_terms: long a, short a, long e, short e, long o, short o, long u, short u
    Sense id: en-long_i-en-noun-eve0JiLa Categories (other): Phonetics, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 54 46 Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonetics, phonology, sciences
  2. (palaeography, epigraphy) a tall variant of the letter i, ⟨ꟾ⟩, used in all-capital Latin inscriptions and manuscripts in classical antiquity and the Early Middle Ages for a long vowel /iː/. (Other long vowels were marked with apices.) Synonyms: i longa
    Sense id: en-long_i-en-noun-Z5BPMT5l Categories (other): Epigraphy, Palaeography, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 54 46 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 41 59 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 42 58 Topics: biology, epigraphy, geography, history, human-sciences, literature, media, natural-sciences, palaeography, paleogeography, paleography, paleontology, publishing, sciences

Inflected forms

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