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.”
