Bavli / Jewish Babylonian Aramaic · What language is on the daf?
אי
JBA-007Jewish Babylonian AramaicBavli and JBA discourse
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE FIRST
אִי
Pedagogical transliterationi
Plain meaningif
Any vocalization or pronunciation shown here is pedagogical unless the cited source itself is pointed.
WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT
אי
אי is a common JBA conditional marker. When it opens a clause, read forward looking for the consequence. It appears in major formulae such as אי הכי, “if so.”
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