YI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Yi mean? 

• YI (noun)
  The noun YI has 1 sense:

1. a Loloish language

  Familiarity information: YI used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Loloish language

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Lolo; Yi

Hypernyms ("Yi" is a kind of...):

Loloish (languages spoken by hill tribes in northern Burma and neighboring areas)

 Context examples 

Growth was now routed by fear, and he ki-yi'd like any frightened puppy.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

We know dinosaurs eventually evolved feathery wings and became today's birds, but besides Yi qi, there wasn't any prior evidence in the fossil record to suggest this type of non-avian flight.

(Second Bat-Like Dinosaur Discovered in China, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He scrambled backward, bursting out in an astonished explosion of ki-yi's.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Dubbed "Yi qi", the fossil was bizarre enough that it divided paleontologist opinion on whether or not the creature had wings.

(Second Bat-Like Dinosaur Discovered in China, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

But White Fang sat on his haunches and ki-yi'd and ki-yi'd, a forlorn and pitiable little figure in the midst of the man-animals.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

That makes Ambopteryx a powerful find, lending weight to the idea Yi qi did indeed develop a separate method of flight, similar to that of the pterosaurs but different to the line of dinosaurs that would eventually become birds.

(Second Bat-Like Dinosaur Discovered in China, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He sat up on his haunches and ki-yi'd.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Whereupon he sat up and ki-yi'd louder than ever.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

While he yelped and ki-yi'd and scrambled backward, he saw the mother- weasel leap upon her young one and disappear with it into the neighbouring thicket.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The result was a sharp peck on the end of his nose that made him cower down and ki-yi.

(White Fang, by Jack London)