I’m trying to imagine people telling each other that and I can’t help but thinking it sounds like monkeys communicating. Something to do with a single syllable with no consonant as a simple command. A little monkey at that, given that it’s an ‘i’ not an ‘o’.
Not in English, but i means “go” (imperative) in Latin. :-)
I’m trying to imagine people telling each other that and I can’t help but thinking it sounds like monkeys communicating. Something to do with a single syllable with no consonant as a simple command. A little monkey at that, given that it’s an ‘i’ not an ‘o’.
Lemurs telling a human to get out of their space: eee! eee! eee~!
Lemures telling a human to get out of their space: i! i! i~!
(That’s why they’re called lemurs.)