·     Status of this glyph as a logogram:

o 25EMC is the only source which gives this as a logogram I’, with the meaning of “hawk” / “falcon”. It is of course better known as i, which would appear to be derived (using the acrophonic principle) from this logogram.

o EB considers this glyph to be solely syllabogram i, while acknowledging the origin in a symbol which represented a hawk – EB.p72.pdfp77.fn92: A variant spelling (T237var) for the sound i- employs a hawk plucking the eye of a canine-like animal (’i’ “hawk”) instead of the common T679. As not the word “hawk” is intended, but simply the sound i-, the gloss “hawk” is no longer included in the vocabulary. The word i’ is onomatopoetic in origin, as it refers to the sound the hawk makes. [Sim: it looks like Boot once considered it to be also a logogram, but changed his mind.]

o MHD and Bonn take the same position as the (revised) Boot one – they give only a syllabogram usage.