ie

See also: -ie and Appendix:Variations of "ie"

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Interlingue.

Symbol

ie

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Interlingue.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Interlingue terms

English

Adverb

ie

1. Alternative form of i.e.
   • 1986 July, “Become a famous composer and appear in ZZAP!”, in Roger Kean, editor, ZZAP! 64, number 15, Ludlow, Shropshire: Newsfield, →OCLC, page 89, column 4:

     Make sure your music software is stand-alone, too (ie, it doesn’t have to be loaded into a utility—we don’t want to have to mess around with bits of wire or umpteen different programs just to hear your maestropiece).

   • 2005 April 11, Philip Howard, “Modern Manners”, in The Times‎^[1], London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 April 2026:

     “Connexion” is the etymological (ie, “correct”) spelling. That is to say, our word is derived from an actual Latin noun, cf. deflexion, inflexion, and reflexion. […] And it might make life easier to abolish the letter “x”. But why should we cut off the fascinating roots of our words? I should carry on preferring “connexion”.

Anagrams

• E/I, EI

Acehnese

Noun

ie

1. alternative spelling of ië (“water”)

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• e

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Interjection

ie

1. yes

Antonyms

• nu

Dutch

Etymology 1

Likely from earlier Middle Dutch hi. Doublet of hij.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i/

• Audio:

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Pronoun

ie

1. (Netherlands, colloquial) unstressed form of hij (“he”)

   Hoe doet ie dat? ― How does he do that?

Usage notes

• Often attached to the preceding word with a hyphen:

Ik denk dat-ie dood is. ― I think it's dead.

Alternative forms

• 'ie (obsolete)

Etymology 2

Likely from unstressed je.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i/

• Audio:

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Pronoun

ie

1. (Holland, colloquial) Second-person singular, mute form: you

   Heb ie de krant al gelezen? ― Have you already read the newspaper?

Declension

Dutch personal pronouns

	subject		object		possessive			reflexive	genitive5
singular	full	unstr.	full	unstr.	full	unstr.	pred.
1st person	ik	'k1	mij	me	mijn	m'n1	mijne	me	mijner, mijns
2nd person	jij	je	jou	je	jouw	je	jouwe	je	jouwer, jouws
2nd person archaic or regiolectal	gij	ge	u	–	uw	–	uwe	u	uwer, uws
2nd person formal	u	–	u	–	uw	–	uwe	u, zich7	uwer, uws
3rd person masculine	hij	ie1	hem	'm1	zijn	z'n1	zijne	zich	zijner, zijns
3rd person feminine	zij	ze	haar	h'r1, 'r1, d'r1	haar	h'r1, 'r1, d'r1	hare	zich	harer, haars
3rd person neuter	het	't1	het	't1	zijn	z'n1	zijne	zich	zijner, zijns
3rd person gender-neutral8	hen	–	hen	–	hun	–	hunne	zich	hunner, huns
plural	full	unstr.	full	unstr.	full	unstr.	pred.
1st person	wij	we	ons	–	ons, onze2	–	onze	ons	onzer, onzes
2nd person	jullie	je	jullie	je	jullie	je	–	je	–
2nd person archaic or regiolectal6	gij	ge	u	–	uw	–	uwe	u	uwer, uws
2nd person formal	u	–	u	–	uw	–	uwe	u, zich7	uwer, uws
3rd person	zij	ze	hen3, hun4	ze	hun	–	hunne	zich	hunner, huns

¹⁾ Not as common in written language.
²⁾ Inflected as an adjective.
³⁾ In prescriptivist use, used only as direct object (accusative).
⁴⁾ In prescriptivist use, used only as indirect object (dative).
⁵⁾ Archaic. Nowadays used for formal, literary or poetic purposes, and in fixed expressions.
⁶⁾ To differentiate from the singular gij, gelle (object form elle) and variants are commonly used colloquially in Belgium. Archaic forms are gijlieden and gijlui ("you people").
⁷⁾ Zich is preferred if the reflexive pronoun immediately follows the subject pronoun u, e.g. Meldt u zich aan! 'Log in!', and if the subject pronoun u is used with a verb form that is identical with the third person singular but different from the informal second person singular, e.g. U heeft zich aangemeld. 'You have logged in.' Only u can be used in an imperative if the subject pronoun is not overt, e.g. Meld u aan! 'Log in!', where u is the reflexive pronoun. Otherwise, both u and zich are equally possible, e.g. U meldt u/zich aan. 'You log in.'
⁸⁾ Not officially recognized in standard Dutch. It has gained popularity, especially in mainstream media and queer circles, as a respectful term for non-binary individuals.

Alternative forms

• 'ie (obsolete)

Etymology 3

Ultimately from Old Dutch io.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i/

• Audio:

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Adverb

ie

1. (obsolete) always, every time, continuously
2. (obsolete) ever, sometime, at some point

Usage notes

Was entirely replaced by words like altijd ("always, every time") and ooit ("ever, sometime, at some point") by the late 16th century.

Related terms

• edoch
• eeuw
• ergens, iemand, iewers, immer, ooit
• ieder, iedereen, iederman
• iegelijk
• nergens, niemand, niewers, nimmer, nooit
• nie

Anagrams

• ei

Esperanto

Etymology

From i- (indeterminate correlative prefix) + -e (correlative suffix of place).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈie/

• Audio 1:

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• Audio 2:

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• Audio 3:

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• Rhymes: -ie
• Syllabification: i‧e

Adverb

ie (accusative ien)

1. somewhere (indeterminate correlative of place)

Derived terms

• ie ajn (“anywhere”)

See also

Esperanto correlatives

		interrogative	demonstrative	indefinite	universal	negative
		ki-	ti-	i-	ĉi-	neni-
kind of, sort of	-a	kia	tia	ia	ĉia	nenia
reason	-al	kial	tial	ial	ĉial	nenial
time	-am	kiam	tiam	iam	ĉiam	neniam
place	-e	kie	tie	ie	ĉie	nenie
motion	-en	kien	tien	ien	ĉien	nenien
manner	-el	kiel	tiel	iel	ĉiel	neniel
possessive	-es	kies	ties	ies	ĉies	nenies
demonstrative pronoun	-o	kio	tio	io	ĉio	nenio
amount	-om	kiom	tiom	iom	ĉiom	neniom
demonstrative determiner	-u	kiu	tiu	iu	ĉiu	neniu

Further reading

• “ie”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “ie”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Japanese

Romanization

ie

1. Rōmaji transcription of いえ

Ladin

Verb

ie

1. (Val Gardena) third-person singular present indicative of ester - is

Maltese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪː/
• IPA^(key): /ɛː/ (before vowelised għ/h + consonant)

Letter

ie (upper case Ie)

1. The thirteenth letter of the Maltese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

• Ie was made a letter in its own right only in the 1990s. In older dictionaries, lists, etc., it is treated as i + e.
• Ie is used in stressed syllables only. When unstressed, it is reduced to e or i. In closed syllables, the reduction is generally e; in open syllables it is predominantly i, but both may be possible.
• Before the letters għ, ħ, h, q, the long vowel phonemes i and ie merge. The orthographic distinction is based on etymology and morphological analogy, which causes rather frequent spelling errors even in edited texts.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) ittra; A a, B b, Ċ ċ, D d, E e, F f, Ġ ġ, G g, Għ għ, H h, Ħ ħ, I i, Ie ie, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Ż ż, Z z

Middle French

Alternative forms

• je, i', j' (elided)

Pronoun

ie

1. I (first-person singular subject pronoun)

Descendants

• French: je, j'
• Norman: jeo, je

See also

• moy
• me
• mien
• mon

Middle Scots

Noun

ie

1. alternative form of ee (“eye”)

Murui Huitoto

ie
Root	Classifier
ie-	—

Etymology

Cognate with Minica Huitoto ie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈijɛ]
• Hyphenation: i‧e

Conjunction

ie

1. then, after that
   • 2008 [1978], Huitoto Murui Bible, 2nd edition, Mateo 19:1:

     Ie llofueoicaigano dɨga Galileamona jaillanona Jordán railla ille ruica dɨbeimo Judeamo Jesús jaide.

     Then having left with his disciples from Galilea, Jesus went to Judea to the other side of a river called Jordán.

Noun

ie

1. that, the aforementioned

Declension

Declension of ie

	singular	plural
absolutive	ie	—
nominative	iedɨ	—
accusative	iena	—
dative/locative	iemo	—
ablative	iemona	—
instrumental	iedo	—
causal	ieri	—
privative	ienino	—
sequential	ienona	—

Derived terms

• iemo

References

• Shirley Burtch (1983), Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎^[2] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 108
• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017), A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[3], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 176

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiː.e/
• Rhymes: -iː.e

Noun

īe (Northumbrian)

1. genitive/dative singular of ēa

Old Occitan

Pronoun

ie

1. alternative form of eu

Romanian

Alternative forms

• iie — nonstandard
• ие (ie) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈije/

Etymology 1

Woman wearing an ie

Inherited from Latin (vestis) līnea (“linen garment”). Compare Old Spanish linia (“a kind of garment”). Doublet of linie (“line”), a later borrowing.

Noun

ie f (plural ii)

1. traditional Romanian embroidered blouse

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	ie	ia	ii	iile
genitive-dative	ii	iei	ii	iilor
vocative	ie, io		iilor

Related terms

• in

See also

• bluză

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin īlia, plural of īle.

Noun

ie f (plural ii) (rare, archaic)

1. the lower part of the abdomen or belly, especially in animals such as livestock
2. the skin that hangs down from the belly of an ox
3. the pastern on a horse

   Synonym: chișiță

4. guts, bowels, or entrails

   Synonyms: măruntaie, viscere

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	ie	ia	ii	iile
genitive-dative	ii	iei	ii	iilor
vocative	ie, io		iilor

See also

• pântece, vintre

Etymology 3

Borrowed from German ja (yes), or perhaps from Latin est ((it) is).

Adverb

ie

1. (regional, Transylvania) yes

   Synonym: da

Further reading

• “ie”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh ief, ieu, from Proto-Brythonic *ī semos (“that is so”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiː.ɛ/
• Rhymes: -iːɛ

Particle

ie

1. yes, aye

   Synonym: ia

   Antonyms: naci, nage, na

   Ai ef yw dy dad di? Ie, dyna ef.

   Is he your father? Yes, that is he. (Literary, formal.)

   Ydy o eich tad? Ia, dyna fo.

   Is he your dad? Yes, that’s him. (Northern colloquial.)

Usage notes

• Used in the standard language to reply to questions or statements with a non-verbal element fronted for emphasis. For a regular unemphatic verb-initial question or statement, other words of agreement are employed. ie/ia can be found colloquially to answer any type of question.
• This word is found in the standard language and also colloquially in South Wales. In the North, ia is the preferred colloquial form.

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “ie”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies