"y" meaning in Spanish

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Character

IPA: /ʝ/ [phoneme], /i/ [phoneme], /ˈʝe/ [letter, name], [ˈɟ͡ʝe] [letter, name], /ˈʝe/ (note: letter name, everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay), [ˈɟ͡ʝe] (note: letter name, everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay), /ˈʃe/ (note: letter name, Buenos Aires and environs), [ˈʃe] (note: letter name, Buenos Aires and environs), /ˈʒe/ (note: letter name, elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay), [ˈʒe] (note: letter name, elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Forms: Y [uppercase]
Rhymes: -e Head templates: {{head|es|letter|lower case||upper case|Y}} y (lower case, upper case Y)
  1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Spanish alphabet, called ye or i griega and written in the Latin script. Tags: letter, lowercase
    Sense id: en-y-es-character-QvqgqBmu Categories (other): Spanish entries with incorrect language header, Spanish links with redundant target parameters Disambiguation of Spanish entries with incorrect language header: 44 0 0 11 0 45 Disambiguation of Spanish links with redundant target parameters: 49 0 0 21 0 30 Related terms: letra [Latin, letter], A [Latin, letter], a [Latin, letter], Á [Latin, letter], á [Latin, letter], B [Latin, letter], b [Latin, letter], C [Latin, letter], c [Latin, letter], D [Latin, letter], d [Latin, letter], E [Latin, letter], e [Latin, letter], É [Latin, letter], é [Latin, letter], F [Latin, letter], f [Latin, letter], G [Latin, letter], g [Latin, letter], H [Latin, letter], h [Latin, letter], I [Latin, letter], i [Latin, letter], Í [Latin, letter], í [Latin, letter], J [Latin, letter], j [Latin, letter], K [Latin, letter], k [Latin, letter], L [Latin, letter], l [Latin, letter], M [Latin, letter], m [Latin, letter], N [Latin, letter], n [Latin, letter], Ñ [Latin, letter], ñ [Latin, letter], O [Latin, letter], o [Latin, letter], Ó [Latin, letter], ó [Latin, letter], P [Latin, letter], p [Latin, letter], Q [Latin, letter], q [Latin, letter], R [Latin, letter], r [Latin, letter], S [Latin, letter], s [Latin, letter], T [Latin, letter], t [Latin, letter], U [Latin, letter], u [Latin, letter], Ú [Latin, letter], ú [Latin, letter], , [Latin, letter], Ü [Latin, letter], ü [Latin, letter], V [Latin, letter], v [Latin, letter], W [Latin, letter], w [Latin, letter], X [Latin, letter], x [Latin, letter], Y [Latin, letter], y [Latin, letter], Z [Latin, letter], z [Latin, letter]
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Conjunction

IPA: /i/ (note: preconsonantal), [i] (note: preconsonantal), [i̯] (note: prevocalic)
Rhymes: -i Etymology: Inherited from Old Spanish è or e, from Latin et. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|es|osp|è|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old Spanish è, {{inh+|es|osp|è}} Inherited from Old Spanish è, {{m|osp|e}} e, {{inh|es|la|et}} Latin et Head templates: {{head|es|conjunction}} y
  1. and
    Sense id: en-y-es-conj-YgERG4Og
  2. (in names of number) and
    Sense id: en-y-es-conj-YgERG4Og1
  3. (in arithmetic) plus, and
    Sense id: en-y-es-conj-twSy2rzZ Categories (other): Spanish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Spanish entries with incorrect language header: 44 0 0 11 0 45
  4. (informal) well Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-y-es-conj-p3Irdl0V
  5. (informal) what about, how about, where is/are the Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-y-es-conj-zqXbxT~7 Categories (other): Spanish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Spanish entries with incorrect language header: 44 0 0 11 0 45
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: e, i [obsolete] Derived forms: y comercial, ¿y qué?
Etymology number: 2

Alternative forms

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            "letter"
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            "letter"
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      "tags": [
        "phoneme"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "tags": [
        "phoneme"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈʝe/",
      "tags": [
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      "ipa": "[ˈɟ͡ʝe]",
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      "note": "letter name, everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay"
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      "note": "letter name, Buenos Aires and environs"
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    },
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      "ipa": "[ˈʒe]",
      "note": "letter name, elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-e"
    },
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      "other": "/i/"
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      "other": "/ʝ/"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "y comercial"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "¿y qué?"
    }
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          "english": "You must know, then, that the above-named gentleman whenever he was at leisure (which was mostly all the year round) gave himself up to reading books of chivalry with such ardour and avidity that he almost entirely neglected the pursuit of his field-sports, and even the management of his property; and to such a pitch did his eagerness and infatuation go that he sold many an acre of tillageland to buy books of chivalry to read, and brought home as many of them as he could get.",
          "ref": "1605, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quijote de la Mancha¹, Chapter I",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "english": "But what about the concert? Are we not going anymore?",
          "text": "Pero, ¿y el concierto? ¿Ya no vamos?",
          "type": "example"
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        {
          "english": "How about the girl? Is she safe?",
          "text": "¿Y la niña? ¿Está a salvo?",
          "type": "example"
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        {
          "english": "Where are the files? I should take a look at them.",
          "text": "¿Y los archivos? Debo echarles un vistazo.",
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        "(informal) what about, how about, where is/are the"
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      "note": "preconsonantal"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-i"
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      "ipa": "[i̯]",
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "e"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
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    }
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}
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    "Spanish terms inherited from Old Spanish",
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    },
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      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
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      "word": "b"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "C"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
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      "word": "c"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
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      "word": "D"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
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    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
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    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
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    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
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        "Latin",
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    },
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      "tags": [
        "Latin",
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    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "f"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
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      "word": "G"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
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    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
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    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
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    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "I"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "i"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Í"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "í"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "J"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "j"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "K"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "k"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "l"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "M"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "m"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "N"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "n"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Ñ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "ñ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "O"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "o"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Ó"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "ó"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "P"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "p"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Q"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "q"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "R"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "r"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "S"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "s"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "T"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "t"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "U"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "u"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Ú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "ú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": ","
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Ü"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "ü"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "V"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "v"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "W"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "w"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "X"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "x"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Y"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "y"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Z"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "z"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "The twenty-sixth letter of the Spanish alphabet, called ye or i griega and written in the Latin script."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "letter",
          "letter"
        ],
        [
          "alphabet",
          "alphabet"
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        [
          "ye",
          "ye#Spanish"
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        [
          "i griega",
          "i griega#Spanish"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "letter",
        "lowercase"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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      "tags": [
        "phoneme"
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    {
      "ipa": "/i/",
      "tags": [
        "phoneme"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈʝe/",
      "tags": [
        "letter",
        "name"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈɟ͡ʝe]",
      "tags": [
        "letter",
        "name"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈʝe/",
      "note": "letter name, everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈɟ͡ʝe]",
      "note": "letter name, everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈʃe/",
      "note": "letter name, Buenos Aires and environs"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈʃe]",
      "note": "letter name, Buenos Aires and environs"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈʒe/",
      "note": "letter name, elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈʒe]",
      "note": "letter name, elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-e"
    },
    {
      "other": "/i/"
    },
    {
      "other": "/ʝ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "y"
}

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    "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
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      "word": "y comercial"
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    {
      "word": "¿y qué?"
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        "2": "osp",
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        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
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      "name": "inh"
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        "3": "è"
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      "name": "inh+"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "osp",
        "2": "e"
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      "expansion": "e",
      "name": "m"
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      "args": {
        "1": "es",
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        "3": "et"
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    {
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        "Spanish terms with quotations"
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        {
          "english": "You must know, then, that the above-named gentleman whenever he was at leisure (which was mostly all the year round) gave himself up to reading books of chivalry with such ardour and avidity that he almost entirely neglected the pursuit of his field-sports, and even the management of his property; and to such a pitch did his eagerness and infatuation go that he sold many an acre of tillageland to buy books of chivalry to read, and brought home as many of them as he could get.",
          "ref": "1605, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quijote de la Mancha¹, Chapter I",
          "text": "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.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "and"
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        [
          "and",
          "and"
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    {
      "categories": [
        "Spanish terms with usage examples"
      ],
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        {
          "english": "seventy-six",
          "text": "setenta y seis",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "and"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "and",
          "and"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(in names of number) and"
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      "raw_tags": [
        "in names of number",
        "in names of number"
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    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Spanish terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "one plus one is two",
          "text": "uno y uno son dos",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "plus, and"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "plus",
          "plus"
        ],
        [
          "and",
          "and"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(in arithmetic) plus, and"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "in arithmetic",
        "in arithmetic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Spanish informal terms",
        "Spanish terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Well, of course!",
          "text": "¡Y por supuesto!",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "well"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "well",
          "well"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) well"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Spanish informal terms",
        "Spanish terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "But what about the concert? Are we not going anymore?",
          "text": "Pero, ¿y el concierto? ¿Ya no vamos?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "How about the girl? Is she safe?",
          "text": "¿Y la niña? ¿Está a salvo?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Where are the files? I should take a look at them.",
          "text": "¿Y los archivos? Debo echarles un vistazo.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "what about, how about, where is/are the"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "what about",
          "what about"
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        [
          "how about",
          "how about"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) what about, how about, where is/are the"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/i/",
      "note": "preconsonantal"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[i]",
      "note": "preconsonantal"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-i"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[i̯]",
      "note": "prevocalic"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "e"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "i"
    }
  ],
  "word": "y"
}

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