ès

See also: Appendix:Variations of "es"

Cornish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛz/

Preposition

ès

1. (Standard Cornish) Short for ages.

French

Etymology

From Old French es, contraction of en + les. The grave accent is both to indicate the pronunciation and to disambiguate with es.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛs/

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• Homophones: ace, aces, esse, esses

Preposition

ès

1. (archaic) in (the)

Usage notes

Now used mainly in the names of academic degrees (like licence ès lettres or licence ès arts), and preserved in placenames.

Further reading

• “ès”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• SE, se

Javanese

Romanization

ès

1. Romanization of ꦲꦺꦱ꧀

Norman

Etymology

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Preposition

ès

1. (Guernsey) to the, at the

Occitan

Verb

ès

1. second-person singular present indicative of èsser

   Synonym: siás

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛs/
• Rhymes: -ɛs

Noun

ès f (plural esau or esys)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter S.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
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.

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) llythyren; a, bi, ec, èch, di, èdd, e, èf, èff, èg, eng, aetsh, i / i dot, je, ce, el, èll, em, en, o, pi, ffi, ciw, er, rhi, ès, ti, èth, u / u bedol, fi, w, ecs, y, sèd