short i

plural short i's

1. human sciencesThe vowel sound /ɪ/, as in the words pit and stick. (The presence of a short vowel is sometimes signaled in spelling by the doubling of a consonant after it, such as in sitting as contrasted with siting.)

   Antonyms: long i

2. CyrilliccharacterThe name of the letter й/Й in Cyrillic alphabets.

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

   2003, Michael S. Gorham, “Notes”, in Speaking in Soviet Tongues: Language Culture and the Politics of Voice in Revolutionary Russia, DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, note 47, page 215

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   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.

   1988 July 8, N. I. Boyarshin, T. M. Babenko, “Rules for Abbreviation of Names of Enterprises and Organizations”, in Science & Technology; USSR: Computers (JPRS Report; JPRS-UCC-88-002), Springfield, Va.: National Technical Information Service, →OCLC, UDC 025.4:001.4:061.5, page 38

   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.

   2006 June, Jukka K. Korpela, “Design Principles”, in Unicode Explained, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly Media, →ISBN, part II (A Systematic Look at Unicode), chapter 4 (The Structure of Unicode), page 167

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

   2022, Elizabeth Wilson, “Transliteration”, in Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin’s Russia, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page xiv