Meaning of short i | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The vowel sound /ɪ/, as in the words pit and stick.
2. The name of the letter й/Й in Cyrillic alphabets.
   Cyrillic, character

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Examples

“When the Cyrillic "short i" [y] precedes the omitted fragment, the next consonant should not be dropped: for example, kaliynyy [potassium] = kaliyn., liteynyy [foundry] = liteyn.”

““j” here refers to the Cyrillic “short i” or “i-kratkoe.””

“On the other hand, Unicode defines the Cyrillic letter short i й (U+0439) as decomposable into the Cyrillic letter i и (U+0438) and a diacritic mark (breve), although people who use these letters hardly see things that way.”

“For the common endings of male given names in ий (i and short i or ï) I simply use the letter ‘i’.”

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