I

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  • From Middle English I (also ik, ich), from Old English ih (also ic, iċċ), from Proto-West Germanic *ik, from Proto-Germanic *ik, *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂. Cognate with Scots I, ik, A, Saterland Frisian iek, West Frisian ik, Dutch ik, Low German ik, German ich, Bavarian i, Yiddish איך, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål jeg, Norwegian Nynorsk eg, Swedish jag, Icelandic ég, eg, Gothic 𐌹𐌺, and more remotely with Latin ego, Ancient Greek ἐγώ, Russian я, Lithuanian aš, Armenian ես, Sanskrit अहम्, Hittite 𒌑𒊌. See also English ich. ego, and Ich.
  • Old French i, from Latin ī, from Etruscan I (i).
  • Abbreviation.

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