ès
See also: Appendix:Variations of "es"
Cornish edit
Pronunciation edit
Preposition edit
ès
- (Standard Cornish) Short for ages.
French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French es, contraction of en + les. The grave accent is both to indicate the pronunciation and to disambiguate with es.
Pronunciation edit
Preposition edit
ès
Usage notes edit
Now used mainly in the names of academic degrees (like licence ès lettres or licence ès arts), and preserved in placenames.
Further reading edit
- “ès”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Javanese edit
Romanization edit
ès
- Romanization of ꦲꦺꦱ꧀
Norman edit
Etymology edit
From Old French es
Preposition edit
ès
Occitan edit
Verb edit
ès
- second-person singular present indicative of èsser
- Synonym: siás
Welsh edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
- The name of the Latin-script letter S/s.
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | h-prothesis |
ès | unchanged | unchanged | hès |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |