Ei
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ei"
Translingual edit
Noun edit
Ei
- The exponential integral, a special function, defined as:
Angami edit
Letter edit
Ei
- The tenth letter of the Angami alphabet, written in the Latin script.
See also edit
- (Latin-script letters) Ü ü, Üi üi, A a, Ai ai, I i, Ie ie, U u, Uo uo, E e, Ei ei, O o, Ou ou, K k, Kh kh, G g, Ng ng, C c, Ch ch, J j, Jh jh, Ny ny, T t, Th th, D d, N n, Ts ts, Tsh tsh, Dz dz, P p, Ph ph, B b, M m, Pf pf, Bv bv, Y y, Yh yh, R r, Rh rh, L l, Lh lh, F f, V v, W w, Wh wh, S s, Sh sh, Z z, Zh zh, H h
German edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle High German ei and Old High German ei, from Proto-West Germanic *aij, from Proto-Germanic *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm.
Cognate with Yiddish איי (ey), Dutch ei, West Frisian aai, English ey and egg, Danish æg.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Ei n (strong, genitive Eies or Eis, plural Eier, diminutive Eichen n or Eierchen n or Eilein n)
- egg (all biological senses)
- Willst du dein Ei hart oder weich?
- Do you want your egg hard-boiled or soft-boiled?
- Das befruchtete Ei nistet sich in der Gebärmutter ein.
- The fertilised egg nidates in the uterus.
- something egg-shaped
- (informal, usually in the plural) testicle; ball (also figuratively)
- Mal sehen, ob ihr Eier habt!
- Let’s see if you guys have balls!
- (colloquial, in the plural) bucks (money)
- Kost’ dreißig Eier, der Spaß.
- This thing costs thirty bucks.
- (colloquial, usually vocative, mildly derogatory) clown; foolish bloke
- Da steht „ziehen“, du Ei.
- [The sign] says “pull”, you clown.
Declension edit
Declension of Ei [neuter, strong]
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “Ei” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Ei” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Ei” in Duden online
- Ei on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Ei”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
Plautdietsch edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Low German ei, from Old Saxon ei, from Proto-Germanic *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm. Compare Dutch ei, obsolete English ey, West Frisian aai, Danish æg, German Ei.
Noun edit
Ei n (plural Eia)