Mothafuckas always asking Zug Izland
What's up with the hatchet?
Man, why you always ask questions about Psychopathic?
(Chorus)
Don't ask us why, we do the things that we do
Don't ask us why, we feel the same as you
Don't ask us why, life can be so damn cruel
Don't ask us why, it's all been decided for you
Pure our soul first breath is filled with sin
A young child just born quit sufferin'
A mother scream, get high, chase a ghost again
This will happen over and over again
(Chorus)
Don't ask us why, we do the things that we do
Don't ask us why, we feel the same as you
Don't ask us why, life can be so damn cruel
Don't ask us why, it's all been decided for you
I look into your eyes, I feel your pain, life's insane
I'm gonna do my best and try and live again
I know we're all the same
We live our lives a fucking game
And still we do it over and over again
(Chorus)
Don't ask us why, we do the things that we do
Don't ask us why, we feel the same as you
Don't ask us why, life can be so damn cruel
Don't ask us why, it's all been decided for you
First communion done, now your life has just begun
Second ??? whole world is looking with a gun
Another child will do it when he's on the run
The vicious circle of life has just begun
(Chorus)
Don't ask us why, we do the things that we do
Don't ask us why, we feel the same as you
Don't ask us why, life can be so cruel
Don't ask us why, it's all been decided for you
Don't ask us why, we feel the same as you
Don't ask us why, life can be so damn cruel
Don't ask us why, it's all been decided for you
Don't ask us why, we feel the same as you
Don't ask us why, feel the same as you
Don't ask us why, we do the same as you
Don't ask us why, it's all it's all yeah
Don't ask us why, it's all been decided for you
Y que hiciste del amor que me juraste?
y qué has hecho de los besos que te di?
y qué excusa puedes darme si fallaste?
y mataste la esperanza que hubo en mí
Y que ingrato es el destino que me hiere
y que absurda la razón de mi pasión
y que necio es este amor que no se muere
y prefiere perdonarte tu traición
Y pensar
que en mi vida fuiste flama
y el caudal de mi gloria fuiste tú
y llegué a quererte con el alma
y hoy me mata de tristeza tu actitud
Y a qué debo dime entonces tu abandono?
y en qué ruta tu promesa se perdió
y si dices la verdad yo te perdono
y te llevo de recuerdo junto a Dios
Y pensar
que en mi vida fuiste flama
y el caudal de mi gloria fuiste tú
y llegué a quererte con el alma
y hoy me mata de tristeza tu actitud
Y a qué debo dime entonces tu abandono?
y en que ruta tu promesa se perdió
y si dices la verdad yo te perdono
y te llevo de recuerdo junto a Dios
Neol bomyeon (nan) useumman (nawa) sujubeun misokkajido Yeah
Nal boneun ne nunbicheun seulpeun geol hoksi ibyeoreul malharyeogo hani
Baby
Maeilgachi tto banbokdoel nae moseube neoneun geurido jichyeonneunji nal
Yongseohagenni?
Dasi hanbeon deo saenggakhae saenggakhaejullae ijeneun nochi anheulge
Neoreul ullin geon naega baboraseo
Neoreul bonaen geon naega bujokhaeseo neol
Jiuryeo haetdeon geureon nareul yongseohae jwo nal
Jebal dasi sumeul swil su itge
Neol bomyeon (nan) nunmuri (heulleo) nareul baboro mandeuneun neo
Hoksirado ne mam byeonhal ttae doraol gire naega seo isseulge Baby
Junbihaetdeon ne ibyeori naegeneun jigeum jugeul geot gachi apa sigani
Jinado
Ajik neoreul bonaegien bonaegieneun hae julge neomu manheunde Yeah
Neoreul ullin geon naega baboraseo
Neoreul bonaen geon naega bujokhaeseo neol
Jiuryeo haetdeon geureon nareul yongseohae jwo nal
Jebal dasi sumeul swil su itge
Eodiseobuteo yaegihalkka eonjebuteonga mworalkka sojunghamiran geol
Irheogatjanha (mal an haedo aljanha)
Geundeyo, geudaeyeo uri hamkkeyeotdeon ilbun ilchoga nunbusige areumdapdeon
Yeppeun misoga geuriwo ne mame kkok dakil
Nae seulpeun gidoga I bissogeul jina hoksi bol su isseulkka
Naega jigeum neomu apa nega tteonan jigeumi nan neomu apa mwoga iri
Himdeunji maeil bam nan neol saenggakhae
Harurado an hamyeon nae mami buranhan geol neon ani eum ani moreugetji
Ireon nal al riga eobtji
Neodo gakkeum nae saenggagi nandamyeon geu ttae neon doraomyeon dwae
Saranghandan mal neol hyanghae haneun mal
Bogo sipdan mal neol ango sipeun mal ojik han saram
I got this story don't know what it's about
but I'm gonna' tell you anyway
what I do with my life I don't really care
but I know I was sure left astray
I know what I want
and I know it runs deep through your body too
you'll never understand
just what the fuck i've gone through
why'd you do this to me
I don't know
why won't you let me leave
I don't know
why'd you do this to me
I don't know
why won't you let me leave
I don't know
it's this pain that I feel
is this life really for real
or is this just another nightmare
because I know you just don't care
you say it wasn't your fault
ther's a lesson that's gotta' be taught
if it was love that you make believed
then you're gonna have to live with me
why'd you do this to me
I don't know
why won't you let me leave
I don't know
why'd you do this to me
I don't know
why won't you let me leave
I don't know
the bright light goin' dim
and I can't believe the state of mind I'm in
I didn't ask to take this ride
My baby I love you so much forever you and I
I love you oh I love you so much forever you and I
My baby I love you so much forever you and I
I love you oh I love you so much forever you and I
Jinagan shigandurur moduda doedollirsun obgejyo
Hana dul sahyo ganun gogjongdo modu ne thashigeji
Haruga jinagago ithur amu uimiga obso
No obnun isungani negenun amu nukimdo obso
Tell me
Please tell me why we narur tonagasso
Please tell me why saranghanun narur dugo tell me
Please tell me why nege dashi dorawajwo
Jinan aphun giogdurun modu igoso uri dashi shijaghe baby
My baby I love you so much forever you and I
I love you oh I love you so much forever you and I
My baby I love you so much forever you and I
I love you oh I love you so much forever you and I
[Rap]
You ask girlfriend how you been
Otohge jine nodo margajin nega babo gathun namjarago
Muongarur irhoborin god chorom uri ane gu ane
Gasumi gumongi nan god chorom hojonhe yojonhe
Hanbon shijag doen nunmurun deche marujiga anha
Yothe hogshi majuchirka niga jajugodnun gorirur
Duribon duribon gorimur hago ganun ne mosubur bomyon
No temunin gor my girl so fallin'
Hanbon jumun no yogshi non nawa hamke gadon gu gosur chajaganun jido molla
Dashi nege dorawajwo my sweet heart
Please tell me why we narur tonagasso
Please tell me why saranghanun narur dugo tell me
Please tell me why nege dashi dorawajwo
Jinan aphun giogdurun modu igoso uri dashi shijaghe baby
My baby I love you so much forever you and I
I love you oh I love you so much forever you and I
My baby I love you so much forever you and I
I love you oh I love you so much forever you and I
Na jigum yogi inunde
Nor hangsang gidarinunde
Otohge heya hanunji doedollisun obnunji
Dashi nege dorawajyo
My baby I love you so much forever you and I
I love you oh I love you so much forever you and I
My baby I love you so much forever you and I
Verse 1
I wasn't sleepin I was creepin slidin' hidin'
I would love the girl behind me roll up a fat ?tyme?
thinkin' mentally sinkin
[precousicly] brinkin
two decades n a half
waitin' for the path of mine to follow
the world is hollow, yet it's full of crap prepared to gamble
i give you half of [gizm tencil]
what's the come up, cried a ton of beers
drunk a ton of beers, that's fun at first
but learned in person
fear throughout the years
kept my ears open eyes scoping my block
don't rock the boat if you can't swim
nobody may be there with the [lim] to lend
this is the end, still i can't explain the fact
why the fuck shit gotta be like that?
Verse 2
Know what, I said
hear me clearin' over so so weaved n dreaded
that they need to be bi-headed
why? I'm readily, steadily stimulatin and utilatin
all sloppily copied imitations, cause they irritatin'
so i'm-a intimitade them [and them are for the snare]
with the [syfliest] stare
bringin em turbulant terror
n they know this cause they can feel it
he knew it was mines still the sucker tried to steal it
so I had to reveal it , through provin' their eye
am I startin' [chinin] fly
n by just blinkin' my eye
in a flash I flush out the face, layin' low-key
trained eyes locate to focus on the phony
mister sometime-homey, why he act like that
I thought he had my back
I thought he had our backs
but it was him that I should've never trusted
and not atleast till he got his attitude adjusted
I'm out busted for acting all dusted, but bust this
now when i'm out, I see n store out the whole scene
for all types sneakes that scheme
they come into my face, i send them [tightmen] home
when they're sufferin' from the double-agent syndrome
Verse 3
Sometimes this world means everything to me
the inside is lovely to these eyes I see
n sometimes in my mind all I wanna do is cry
[hollie] off seven of them drops from my eye
those drain out my skin cause i'm pissed from within
I see a situation now n all I do is grin
people think i'm high but I'm mentally travelling
agin' is your times cause life's a ravelling
while i'm stravelling [moors]
up this fuckin mike I hate to be a pilot
crashin' in a flight
people need to know about this thing called life
cause if you see the light then life's allright
Verse 4
I jumps inside the jeep as I embark on my darkness
bopped in my freestyle tapes n started [reminscing] about my
little homie who was raised in Wyoming wanted to be famous
so he came to Californey on the microphony
he was superbad n whatnot
but he was the kinda fella to follow paths that was hot
he became too fascinated with that gang related flavour
that he modificated rearranged his behaviour
he hooked up quick with the influential slang
gangsta-strow cornrolls the whole shabbang
braggin' n boastin poststandin' n braggin how we 'posed to be
hangin' with baby gees I was baggin
like why you tryin' hooride up on the bandwagon
hopin' they'd hit him in the head
but he steady saggin like he a hog
creepin' through the smog
smokin' on some indo sippin' on a cup of O-Dog
like most who come to this West Coast society
tryin' to be because they think it's fly to be a menace
so what a relic way to end this
got rolled up when he was strolling
on a [Sundae upper...]
some niggas never listen they gotta learn their lesson
the hard way i'm guessin' yessin'
BD as I hit the B n make a right on Wesson
Feel the wonder, in the palm of my hand
Maybe all that I know
Hear the laughter, of truth as it tries
Maybe all that I show
Reaching out to sympathize the simple words
The shadowed lies are walking in my way happens every day
A fevered tone of much surprise taken back I realize
That all I ever needed was you
Refrain:
Tell me Y can't it just be
What's this Y that's burning in me
Tell me Y can't I believe
That this Y is just you and me
Feel the wonder walking my way
Maybe all that I know
I paint a picture of you in my life
And you're all that I know
Reaching out to compromise those simple words
That seem to hide and never shows the face and bitter to the taste
A fevered tone of harmonize taken back I realize that all I ever needed
All I ever needed...
Refrain
All I ever need all I need
The view in my eyes I'd fly away and never let you go
You on my mind I can face the fate
[Joon] MBLAQ, yeah, once again, 2010, let's go
[Joon] Somebody nugunga nareul jom mallyeo jwoyo,
Eotteohke ireohke dang halsuga inayo
Neomuna mideoteon geunyeoga nal balbeun chae,
Chagapge deungeul dollyeo
[Cheondoong/Thunder] Niga nareul tteonaseo mwol halsu igeni nan,
[Seungho] Ajikdo kkae daji mothago tteona neun neoreul
[Cheondoong/Thunder] Naneun majimageuro nege gihwereul junda,
[Seungho] Ijen eojjeolsu eobseo
Give it to my Y, listen to my Y, [G.O] jebal nareul dorabwa
Give it to my Y, [Seungho] dae daphae naegae wae ireo neunji mareul haebwa,
Oh yeah
[G.O] Nobody ijen nal malliji marajwoyo,
Deo isang geu nyeoyege nora nagi shilheo
Cheon cheonhi ijen nan jumeogeul jwiryeo haeyo,
Boksureul shijak haryeo
[Cheondoong/Thunder] Niga nareul tteonaseo mwol halsu igeni nan,
[Seungho] Gotongeul jugesseo naega badeun sangcheo mankeum
[Cheondoong/Thunder] Naneun majimageuro nege gihwereul junda,
[Seungho] Cheon cheonhi daga ganda
Give it to my Y, listen to my Y, [G.O] jebal nareul dorabwa
Give it to my Y, [G.O] dae daphae naegae wae ireo neunji mareul haebwa,
Oh yeah
Oh, oho, oh, oho, that's right
Oh, oho, oh, oho, [G.O] na nari muneo jyeoga
Oh, oho, oh, oho, MBLAQ
Oh, oho, oh, oho, give it up, [Joon] jebal malhaebwa naege
[Mir] Just slow down niga umjigi neun geu modeun
Geol malhaeteon geu bakgaye machwoseo
Jilleoteon naye neol bureuneun wechimeul biuteon geu moseubeul jiuryeo
Aesseudeon geol deureo bwa nae norae, listen to my Y
Shil keo ureobwa,
[Joon] gajima
[Mir] neol sshibeoseo baeteo junda
Give it to my Y, listen to my Y, [G.O] jebal nareul dorabwa
Give it to my Y, [G.O] dae daphae naegae wae ireo neunji mareul haebwa,
Oh yeah
Oh, oho, oh, oho, that's right
Oh, oho, oh, oho, [G.O] na nari muneo jyeoga
Oh, oho, oh, oho, MBLAQ
Oh, oho, oh, oho, everybody let's move
[Joon] I'm sorry baby, oh, oh, oh yeah
Search your mind for the questions
Of the answers that I seek
Close your eyes just imagine
Us together walking down the street
Do you think this is crazy
I don't know that of which I speak
I don't care just as long as you are there
Watching, listening, or swaying to the beat
Tell me why should it matter
Tell me why should I even care
Of the things that could go wrong
Baby I can't hold for long
For you to know that I am there
Tell me why
Hear the words that I'm saying
Hear them echo in your heart
For I know at this moment
Verse 1
I wasn't sleepin I was creepin slidin' hidin'
I would love the girl behind me roll up a fat ?tyme?
thinkin' mentally sinkin
[precousicly] brinkin
two decades n a half
waitin' for the path of mine to follow
the world is hollow yet it's full of crap prepared to gamble
i give you half of [gizm tencil]
what's the come up cried a ton of beers
drunk a ton of beers that's fun at first
but learned in person
fear throughout the years
kept my ears open eyes scoping my block
don't rock the boat if you can't swim
nobody may be there with the [lim] to lend
this is the end, still i can't explain the fact
why the fuck shit gotta be like that?
Verse 2
Know what, I said
hear me clearin' over so so weaved n dreaded
that they need to be bi-headed
why? I'm readily, steadily stimulatin and utilatin
all sloppily copied imitations, cause they irritatin'
so i'm-a intimitade them [and them are for the snare]
with the [syfliest] stare
bringin em turbulant terror
n they know this cause they can feel it
he knew it was mines still the sucker tried to steal it
so I had to reveal it , through provin' their eye
am I startin' [chinin] fly
n by just blinkin' my eye
in a flash I flush out the face, layin' low-key
trained eyes locate to focus on the phony
mister sometime-homey, why he act like that
I thought he had my back
I thought he had our backs
but it was him that I should've never trusted
and not atleast till he got his attitude adjusted
I'm out busted for acting all dusted, but bust this
now when i'm out, I see n store out the whole scene
for all types sneakes that scheme
they come into my face, i send them [tightmen] home
when they're sufferin' from the double-agent syndrome
Verse 3
Sometimes this world means everything to me
the inside is lovely to these eyes I see
n sometimes in my mind all I wanna do is cry
[hollie] off seven of them drops from my eye
those drain out my skin cause i'm pissed from within
I see a situation now n all I do is grin
people think i'm high but I'm mentally travelling
agin' is your times cause life's a ravelling
while i'm stravelling [moors]
up this fuckin mike I hate to be a pilot
crashin' in a flight
people need to know about this thing called life
cause if you see the light then life's allright
Verse 4
I jumps inside the jeep as I embark on my darkness
bopped in my freestyle tapes n started [reminscing] about my
little homie who was raised in Wyoming wanted to be famous
so he came to Californey on the microphony
he was superbad n whatnot
but he was the kinda fella to follow paths that was hot
he became too fascinated with that gang related flavour
that he modificated rearranged his behaviour
he hooked up quick with the influential slang
gangsta-strow cornrolls the whole shabbang
braggin' n boastin poststandin' n braggin how we 'posed to be
hangin' with baby gees I was baggin
like why you tryin' hooride up on the bandwagon
hopin' they'd hit him in the head
but he steady saggin like he a hog
creepin' through the smog
smokin' on some indo sippin' on a cup of O-Dog
like most who come to this West Coast society
tryin' to be because they think it's fly to be a menace
so what a relic way to end this
got rolled up when he was strolling
on a [Sundae upper...]
some niggas never listen they gotta learn their lesson
the hard way i'm guessin' yessin'
BD as I hit the B n make a right on Wesson
pops in my head [beperpiou] question
y...
tu como estas?
espero que bien
te hecho de menos
yo
que puedo decir?
si no estas aqui
sólo espero
una carta azul con una palabra
que me diga que me extrañas
un recuerdo gris que me alivie el alma
o tan sólo una ... llamada
yo
que puedo decir?
si no estas aqui
sólo espero
sólo espero
una carta azul con una palabra
que me diga que me extrañas
un recuerdo gris que me alivie el alma
o tan sólo una ... llamada
[Chorus]
Don't ask us why,
we do the things that we do
Don't ask us why,
we feel the same as you
Don't ask us why,
life can be so damn cruel
Don't ask us why,
it's all been decided for you
Pure our soul first breath is filled with sin
A young child just born quit sufferin'
A mother scream, get high, chase a ghost again
This will happen over and over again
[Chorus]
Don't ask us why,
we do the things that we do
Don't ask us why,
we feel the same as you
Don't ask us why,
life can be so damn cruel
Don't ask us why,
it's all been decided for you
I look into your eyes, I feel your pain, life's insane
I'm gonna do my best and try and live again
I know we're all the same
We live our lives just like a game
And still we do it over and over again
[Chorus]
Don't ask us why,
we do the things that we do
Don't ask us why,
we feel the same as you
Don't ask us why,
life can be so damn cruel
Don't ask us why,
it's all been decided for you
First communion done, now your life has just begun
Second one the whole world is looking with a gun
Another child will do it when he's on the run
The vicious circle of life has just begun
[Chorus]
Don't ask us why,
we do the things that we do
Don't ask us why,
we feel the same as you
Don't ask us why,
life can be so cruel
Don't ask us why,
it's all been decided for you
Don't ask us why,
we feel the same as you
Don't ask us why,
life can be so damn cruel
Don't ask us why,
it's all been decided for you
Don't ask us why,
we feel the same as you
Don't ask us why,
feel the same as you
Don't ask us why,
we do the same as you
Don't ask us why,
it's all it's all yeah
Don't ask us why,
it's all been decided for you
So many dreams come true U know that I can feel
Precious time will make it never be the same
Oh, everyday is like an itching in my heart
One , two , three , four U got to feel this emotion
I don't want U to call me after get another friends
Someone taught me that is over
Every time that I got the feelings fo U that is what U
said
Imagination , your life is gonna make U
* Y! I don't wanna be the same
if U give me a time to break
it's all about U and me yeah
Y! I don't wanna be the same
I only wanna be with U
try to make U special
[Verse 1:]
I cusses you out I call you names I threaten you
I even call dem peoples but dat don't faze you
But when you do me some man I'm breakin down
I'm in my house soo depress while u creepin aroung
I can say I'm not thinkin bout you don't want be bother with u
Get the hell out my face I'm soo throught with u
But I'm be lyin to you u know I'll take u back
I need self control I don't know how to act
U messes ova me you treat me like [? ] sissy I try to tell
My friend but they don't even wanna listen I'm on
Talk shows callin up the radio
Textin everybody lettin know u a dog hoe
I'm tryin to find words just to hit yo nevers
I'm tryin to drive u up the wall but it's always reverse
You got me break- ing down and um
[Chorus:]
Y can't I hurt you like you hurt me?
Y you trying to mess ova dis sissy
Y you never answer when I'm callin yo line
If you supose to be my boy
Y we don't spend time
Y can't I hurt you like you hurt me
You got me break- ing down
[Verse 2:]
I calls ypo fone you hangs up I back
You hang I call right back
But when you call me I answers
On the first ring being in love
Is such a stupid. I catch you
Wiit girls you say dat yo sister
I catch you with hoes you say
They just freinds bruth
They just freinds bruth?
They just freinds bruth!?
I'm lookin at this nigga like I wish u die bruth
Do you really know the damage dat you do to my heart
Way deep down inside I'm just fallin apart cause you wanna
Play the field I'm trying to make a mill I'm tryin to make it happen
Out here doing dis rappin
Is you laughtin at me
Is I'm silly to you
S you laughtin at me
Is I'm silly to you
You got me break- ing down and um
[Chorus]
[Verse 3:]
I'm in yo face I'm blowin on I'm callin yo whole family up
Tellin all of dem the truth. I don smash yo car windows
Broke yo damn jar .I don took shit in my hands motherfuck
The laws .did yo best friend just to make you mad even did a little xtra
Just to make you sad. now I feel soo glad yea I feel soo glad
And when you ask me for some I told you you use yo hand
Got you fire from work now yo pockets hurt
Bleach all yo clothes dat you got from dem hoes
Broke yo cell fone shot up yo home. told dem hoes you got
A diesase stay away from he. did eveything cause you hurted me and all you did was sit back
And laught at me
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ISO basic Latin alphabet | |||
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Aa | Bb | Cc | Dd |
Ee | Ff | Gg | Hh |
Ii | Jj | Kk | Ll |
Mm | Nn | Oo | Pp |
Rr | Ss | Tt | |
Uu | Vv | Ww | Xx |
Yy | Zz |
Y (named wye or wy /ˈwaɪ/, plural wyes)[1] is the twenty-fifth letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet and represents either a vowel or a consonant in English.
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In Latin, Y was named Y Graeca "Greek Y". This was pronounced as I Graeca "Greek I", since Latin speakers had trouble pronouncing /y/, which was not a native sound. In Romance languages, the pronunciation became the regular name: Spanish i griega, French i grec, etc.
Old English borrowed Latin Y to write the native Old English sound /y/ (previously written with the rune yr ᚣ). The name may be related to ui in various medieval languages; in Middle English it was wi /wiː/, which through the Great Vowel Shift became the Modern English wy /waɪ/.
Y is the only letter (other than US/Irish "zee" for Z) whose name is unrelated to its name in modern Romance languages.
The furthest back direct ancestor of English letter Y was the Semitic letter waw, from which also come F, U, V, and W. See F for details. The Greek and Latin alphabets developed from the Phoenician form of this early alphabet. In Modern English, there is also some historical influence from the old English letter yogh (Ȝȝ), which develop from Semitic gimel, as shown below.
Phoenician | Greek | Latin | English (approximate times of changes) | ||
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Old | Middle | Modern | |||
V → | U → | V/U/UU → | V/U/W | ||
Y → | Y (vowel /y/) → | Y (vowel /i/) → | Y (vowels) | ||
C → | |||||
G → | Ȝ → | G → | |||
consonantal Y /j/ → | Y (consonant) | ||||
Þ → | Y /th/ | - |
As a consonant in English, Y is normally a palatal approximant, /j/ (year, German Jahr). This is possibly influenced by the Middle English letter yogh (Ȝȝ), which represented /j/. (Yogh's other sound, /ɣ/, came to be written "gh" in Middle English, and although the sound is no longer pronounced in standard modern English silent "gh" is common in many words where this sound was once present, such as "through" and "caught".)
Y first appeared as the Greek letter upsilon. The Romans borrowed a small form of upsilon as the single letter V, representing both /u/ and its consonantal variant /w/. In later ways of writing Latin, V is typically written as U, for a vowel, or V for the consonant. However, this first loaning of upsilon into Latin is not the source of Modern English Y.
The usage of the capital form of upsilon, Y as opposed to U, V, or W, dates back to the Latin of the first century BC, when upsilon was introduced a second time, this time with its "foot" to distinguish it. It was used to transcribe loanwords from the prestigious Attic dialect of Greek, which had the non-Latin sound /y/. Because it was not a native sound of Latin it was usually pronounced /u/ or /i/. The latter pronunciation was the most common in the Classical period and was used by most people except the educated ones.
The letter was also used for other languages with a /y/ sound. Some words of Italic origin were re-spelled with a y: Latin silva 'forest' was commonly spelled sylva, in analogy with the Greek cognate and synonym ὕλη.[2]
The Roman Emperor Claudius proposed introducing a new letter into the Latin alphabet to transcribe the so-called sonus medius (a short vowel before labial consonants), which in inscriptions was sometimes used for Greek upsilon instead.[citation needed]
In Old English there was a native /y/ sound, and so both Latin U and Y were adapted for use. By the time of Middle English, /y/ had lost its roundedness and became identical to I (/iː/ and /ɪ/). Therefore, many words that originally had I were spelled with Y, and vice-versa. (Some dialects, however, retained the sound /y/ and spelled it U, following French usage.)[citation needed]
Likewise, Modern English vocalic Y is pronounced identically to the letter I. But Modern English uses it in only certain places, unlike Middle and early Modern English. It has three uses: for upsilon in Greek loan-words (system: Greek σύστημα), at the end of a word (rye, city; compare cities, where S is final), and before vowel endings (dy-ing, justify-ing).
When printing was introduced from the continent, Caxton and other English printers used Y in place of Þ (thorn: Modern English th), which did not exist in continental typefaces. From this convention comes the spelling of the as ye in the mock archaism "Ye Olde Shoppe". But in spite of the spelling, pronunciation was the same as for modern the (stressed /ðiː/, unstressed /ðə/). Ye (/jiː/) is purely a modern spelling pronunciation.[3]
In Spanish, Y is called i/y griega, in Catalan i grega, in French and Romanian i grec, in Polish igrek - all meaning "Greek i" (except for Polish, where it is simply a phonetic transcription of the French name); in most other European languages the Greek name is still used; in German, for example, it is called Ypsilon, and in Italian the name is ípsilon or ípsilo. In Portuguese, both names are used (ípsilon and i grego). [1] The letter Y was originally established as a vowel. In the standard English language, the letter Y is traditionally regarded as a consonant, but a survey of almost any English text will show that Y more commonly functions as a vowel. In many cases, it is known as a semivowel.
After fronting from /u/, Greek /y/ de-rounded to /i/.
In English morphology, -y is an adjectival suffix.
Y has the sound values /y/ or /ʏ/ in the Scandinavian languages and in German. It can never be a consonant (except for loanwords), but can appear in diphthongs, as in the name Meyer, where it serves as a variant of ⟨i⟩.
In Dutch, Y appears only in loanwords and names and usually represents /i/. It is often left out of the Dutch alphabet and replaced with the "ligature IJ". In the Afrikaans language, a descendant of Dutch, Y denotes the diphthong [ɛi], which may derive from the IJ ligature.
In Faroese and Icelandic, Y is always pronounced /i/. In both languages, it can also form part of diphthongs such as ⟨ey⟩ (both language) and ⟨oy⟩ (Faroese only).
In the Spanish language, Y was used as a word-initial form of I that was more visible. (German has used J in a similar way.) Hence "el yugo y las flechas" was a symbol sharing the initials of Isabella I of Castille (Ysabel) and Ferdinand II of Aragon. This spelling was reformed by the Royal Spanish Academy and currently is only found in proper names spelled archaically, such as Ybarra or CYII, the symbol of the Canal de Isabel II. X is also still used in Spanish with a different sound in some archaisms.
Appearing alone as a word, the letter Y is a grammatical conjunction with the meaning "and" in Spanish and is pronounced /i/. In Spanish family names, y can separate the father's surname from the mother's surname as in "Santiago Ramón y Cajal"; another example is "Maturin y Domanova", from the Jack Aubrey novel sequence. Catalan names use i for this. Otherwise, Y represents [ʝ] in Spanish. When coming before the sound /i/, Y is replaced with E: "español e inglés". This is to avoid pronouncing /i/ twice.
The letter Y is called "i/y griega", literally meaning "Greek I", after the Greek letter ypsilon, or ye.
In Portuguese, Y (ípsilon in Brazil, both ípsilon or i grega in Portugal) was, together with K and W, recently re-introduced as the 25th letter, and 19th consonant, of the Portuguese alphabet, in consequence of the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990.
It is mostly used in loanwords from English, Japanese, Spanish, Russian and Hebrew. Loanwords in general, primarily gallicisms in both varities, are more common in Brazilian Portuguese than in European Portuguese. It was always common for Brazilians to stylize Tupi-influenced names of their children with the letter (which is present in most romanizations of Old Tupi) e.g. Guaracy, Jandyra, Mayara – though placenames and loanwords derived from Indigenous origins had the letter substituted for ⟨i⟩ over time e.g. Nictheroy became Niterói.
To a minor degree (often stigmatized as a signal of the lower classes) it is also true for common Western/Christian in Brazil, together with those of immigrant communities, although the practice is not possible in Portugal in which names should follow official spelling conventions (see more at Portuguese name).
Usual pronunciations are /i/, [j], [ɪ] and /ɨ/ (the two latter ones are inexistent in European and Brazilian Portuguese varities respectively, being both substituted by /i/ in other dialects). The letters ⟨i⟩ and ⟨y⟩ are regarded as phonemically not dissimilar, though the first corresponds to a vowel and the latter to a consonant, and both can correspond to a semivowel depending on its place in a word.
In Portuguese, all uses of the grammatical conjunction Y in Spanish (meaning "and") are substituted for ⟨e⟩, which is generally pronounced /i/ (seldom its allophones [j] and [ɪ], generally in Brazil).
Italian, too, has Y (i greca or ipsilon) in a small number of loanwords.
In Polish and Guaraní, it represents the vowel [ɨ].
In Welsh it is pronounced [ə] in monosyllabic words or non-final syllables, and /ɨ/ or [i] (depending on the accent) in final syllables.
In Finnish and Albanian, Y is always pronounced [y].
In Lithuanian Y is the 15th letter and is a vowel. It is called the long i and is pronounced /iː/ like in English see.
When used as a vowel in Vietnamese, the letter y represents the close front unrounded vowel. When used as a monophthong, it is functionally equivalent to the Vietnamese letter i. Thus, Mỹ Lai does not rhyme but mỳ Lee does. There have been efforts to replace all such uses with i altogether, but they have been largely unsuccessful. As a consonant, it represents the palatal approximant. The capital letter Y is also used in Vietnamese as a given name.
In Aymara, Turkish, Quechua as in Romaji in Japanese, all Y is a palatal consonant, always denoting [j], as in English.
In Malagasy, the letter y represents the final variation of /ɨ/.
In Japan, Ⓨ is a symbol used for resale price maintenance.
In the International Phonetic Alphabet, [y] corresponds to the close front rounded vowel, and the slightly different character [ʏ] corresponds to the near-close near-front rounded vowel.
It is indicative of the rarity of front rounded vowels that [y] is the rarest sound represented in the IPA by a letter of the Latin alphabet, being cross-linguistically less than half as frequent as [q] or [c] and only about a quarter as frequent as [x].[citation needed]
The IPA symbol [j] ("jod") represents the sound of the English letter ⟨y⟩ in the word "yes".
character | Y | y | ||
Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y | LATIN SMALL LETTER Y | ||
character encoding | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
Unicode | 89 | 0059 | 121 | 0079 |
UTF-8 | 89 | 59 | 121 | 79 |
Numeric character reference | Y | Y | y | y |
EBCDIC family | 232 | E8 | 168 | A8 |
ASCII 1 | 89 | 59 | 121 | 79 |
1 and all encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.
Aa | Bb | Cc | Dd | Ee | Ff | Gg | Hh | Ii | Jj | Kk | Ll | Mm | Nn | Oo | Pp | Rr | Ss | Tt | Uu | Vv | Ww | Xx | Yy | Zz | ||
Letter Y with diacritics
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Ýý | Ỳỳ | Ŷŷ | Y̊ẙ | Ÿÿ | Ỹỹ | Ẏẏ | Ȳȳ | Ỷỷ | Ỵỵ | Ɏɏ | Ƴƴ | ʏ | ||||||||||||||
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