



I aya oa a. n. an incoherent expression one makes while yawning.



<“I aya oa a,” she said in yawnspeak, a language—not unlike Hawaiian—for its paucity of consonants. —Christopher Moore, Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings.>

I Yi Yi Yi Yi. n. a song from the Carmen Miranda musical That Night in Rio.





I’o. (also Iao, Io). n. a Hawaiian name for the “Great Spirit” or divine field, as discussed in Spirit Medicine: Healing in the Sacred Realms by Hank Wesselman.





I-iyo. n. a populated place in the Nueva Vizcaya region of the Philippines.





I-u. n. a populated place in the Western region of Papua New Guinea.





i-yi-yi-yi. n. an exclamation of wonderment, as in the Madonna song “I Want You.”





Ia. n. a stream in Ethiopia.





n. a stream in Ghana.





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