Where does “Yi” come from?
Yi comes from Mandarin 彝, a Chinese character whose original meaning and etymology remain uncertain.
Yi (English): An ethnic group who live primarily in mountainous...
Definitions
- An ethnic group who live primarily in mountainous...
Ancestry of “Yi”, step by step
Yi traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Korean 이
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Korean | 이 | this; this, this thing, this person; here |
| 2 | English | E | The ordinal number fifth, derived from this... |
| 3 | Old English | E | — |
| 4 | Latin | E | Scribal abbreviation of the diphthong ae |
| 5 | Etruscan | 𐌄 | — |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | ε | Lower case epsilon, the fifth letter of the ancient and modern Greek alphabets. Its name was εἶ, later ἒ ψιλόν, and presently έψιλον. It represents roughly the same sound in both alphabets: in Modern Greek, a somewhat lowered variant of the mid front unrounded vowel: or. It is preceded by δ and foll |
| 7 | Phoenician | 𐤄 | that |
| 8 | Egyptian | 𓀠 | — |
via Mandarin 易
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mandarin | 易 | — |
via Chinese Mandarin 彝
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Mandarin | 彝 | — |