English Explanatory Dictionary

i-

English dictionary entry

Meanings

prefix
  1. Used to form past participles of verbs. Alternative spelling of y-.
prefix
  1. A form of the prefix in-, used before gn, as in ignoble, ignominy, and ignore.
prefix
  1. Used to transform English words into words used by Rastafarians with a special meaning.
prefix
  1. Pertaining to the Internet.
  2. Pertaining to digital devices and computer programs, especially those that are cutting-edge or fashionable, and those from Apple.
prefix
  1. Pertaining to computerized, electronic, digital, intelligent controls in products

Word forms

i-

Etymology

From Middle English i-, y-, ȝe-, from Old English ġe-, from Proto-West Germanic *ga-, from Proto-Germanic *ga-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱó-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“with, near, by, along”). Cognate with Dutch ge-, Low German ge-, je-, e-, German ge-.

Synonyms

a- an- dys- il- im- in- ir- mal- non- un-
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