é

See also: Appendix:Variations of "e"

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Translingual

Letter

é (upper case É)

1. The letter e with an acute accent.

See also

• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Sſs  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter E):  Éé  Èè  Êê  Ḙḙ  Ěě  Ĕĕ  Ẽẽ  Ḛḛ  Ẻẻ  Ėė  Ëë  Ēē  Ȩȩ  Ęę  ᶒ  Ɇɇ  Ȅȅ  Ếế  Ềề  Ễễ  Ểể  Ḝḝ  Ḗḗ  Ḕḕ  Ȇȇ  Ẹẹ  Ệệ  ⱸ  ᴇ  Ｅｅ  Ææ  Ǽǽ  Ǣǣ  &  Œœ  ᵫ
• (Letters using acute accent or double acute accent):  Áá  Ắắ  Ấấ  Ǻǻ  Ćć  Ḉḉ  Éé  Ếế  Ǵǵ  Íí  Ḯḯ  Ḱḱ  Ĺĺ  Ḿḿ  Ńń  Óó  Őő  Ớớ  Ṍṍ  Ǿǿ  Ṕṕ  Ŕŕ  Śś  Úú  Űű  Ứứ  Ẃẃ  Ýý  Źź  Ǽǽ

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English

Letter

é (lower case, upper case É, plural é's)

1. Found chiefly in words borrowed from other languages. When it occurs as the last letter of the word, it indicates that the e is not silent.

   café, resumé, animé

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Bourguignon

Etymology

From Old French el, contraction of en + lou. This form is now archaic and replaced by au from ài + lou, but may still be encountered in fixed sentences and proverbs.

Preposition

é

1. (archaic) in the, equivalent of au.

Usage notes

Now used mainly in fixed sentences and proverbs like laissai ailai le chait é formaige.

Related terms

• és

References

• Vocabulaire raisonné et comparé du dialecte et du patois de la province de Bourgogne, by Thomas Mignard, 1870.

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Czech

Letter

é (lower case, upper case É)

1. The ninth letter of the Czech alphabet, after e and before ě

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Fala

Verb

é

1. third-person singular present indicative of sel

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Galician

Etymology

From Latin est, inflected form of sum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ/

Verb

é

1. is; third-person singular present indicative of ser

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Hungarian

Etymology

The standard Latin letter e with the addition of the acute accent which indicates both modified sound and extended length.

Letter

é

1. A letter of the Hungarian alphabet, long e.

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɛː/
• Rhymes: -jɛː

Letter

é (upper case É)

1. The seventh letter of the Icelandic alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) bókstafur; A a, Á á, B b, D d, Рð, E e, É é, F f, G g, H h, I i, Í í, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, Ó ó, P p, R r, S s, T t, U u, Ú ú, V v, X x, Y y, Ý ý, Þ þ, Æ æ, Ö ö

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish é, from Proto-Indo-European *éy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eː/, /ə/

Pronoun

é (emphatic form eisean, disjunctive)

1. he, him
2. (referring to a masculine noun) it

See also

Irish personal pronouns

Number	Person (and gender)	Conjunctive (emphatic)	Disjunctive (emphatic)	Possessive determiner
Singular	First	mé (mise)		mo L m' before vowel sounds
	Second	tú (tusa)1	thú (thusa)	do L d' before vowel sounds
	Third masculine	sé (seisean)	é (eisean)	a L
	Third feminine	sí (sise)	í (ise)	a H
Plural	First	muid, sinn (muidne, muide), (sinne)		ár E
	Second	sibh (sibhse)1		bhur E
	Third	siad (siadsan)	iad (iadsan)	a E

^L Triggers lenition ^E Triggers eclipsis ^H Triggers h-prothesis

¹ Also used as the vocative

The reflexive is formed by adding féin to the relevant pronoun: e.g. "myself" = mé féin, "yourselves" = sibh féin.

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
é	n-é	hé	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Ligurian

Verb

é

1. third-person singular present indicative of êse; “[​he/she/it​] is”

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Lote

Numeral

é

1. one

Synonyms

• éllé

References

• Greg Pearson, René van den Berg, Lote Grammar Sketch (2008)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Romanization

é (Zhuyin ㄜˊ)

1. Pinyin transcription of 俄
2. Pinyin transcription of 吪
3. Pinyin transcription of 哦
4. Pinyin transcription of 囫
5. Pinyin transcription of 娥
6. Pinyin transcription of 峨
7. Pinyin transcription of 峩
8. Pinyin transcription of 枙
9. Pinyin transcription of 涐
10. Pinyin transcription of 珴
11. Pinyin transcription of 皒
12. Pinyin transcription of 睋
13. Pinyin transcription of 硪
14. Pinyin transcription of 磀
15. Pinyin transcription of 莪
16. Pinyin transcription of 蛾
17. Pinyin transcription of 訛
18. Pinyin transcription of 誐
19. Pinyin transcription of 譌
20. Pinyin transcription of 讹
21. Pinyin transcription of 迗
22. Pinyin transcription of 鈋
23. Pinyin transcription of 鋧
24. Pinyin transcription of 锄
25. Pinyin transcription of 隲
26. Pinyin transcription of 頟
27. Pinyin transcription of 額
28. Pinyin transcription of 额
29. Pinyin transcription of 騀
30. Pinyin transcription of 魤
31. Pinyin transcription of 鵝
32. Pinyin transcription of 鵞
33. Pinyin transcription of 鹅

References

• Wenlin

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Min Nan

For pronunciation and definitions of é – see 矮 (“short; low; etc.”). (This character, é, is the Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 矮.)

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

• hé, hǽ

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eː/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *es or *ēs, from Proto-Indo-European *éy.

Pronoun

é (feminine sí, neuter ed)

1. he
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 4c3

     Is hé as airchinnech inna n-uile.

     It is he who is the chief of all.

2. it (referring to a masculine noun)
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 5b28

     Ní tú nod·n-ail, acht is hé not·ail.

     It is not you that nourishes it, but it that nourishes you.

Related terms

• ésom (emphatic)

Descendants

• Irish: é
• Scottish Gaelic: e
• Manx: eh

Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *ēs (compare Middle Welsh wy), from nominative *eyes or accusative *ens, from Proto-Indo-European *éy.

Pronoun

é

1. they
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 4a8

     Nitat pecthi collnidi híccatar and ind echt so cebtar hé riam.

     It is not fleshly sins that are paid for there now, though it was they before.

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Old Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ/

Verb

é

1. third-person singular present indicative of seer
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, To codex, cantiga 5 (facsimile):

     Eſta ·xviiii· é como ſṫa maria aiudou · á emperadriz de roma · a ſofrer as grãdes coitaſ per que paſſou.

     This 19th is about how Holy Mary helped the empress of Rome suffer through the great pains she underwent.

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Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• e

Etymology

From Latin et.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e/

Conjunction

é

1. and

Descendants

• Ladino: i
• Spanish: y

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Picard

Etymology

From Latin apis.

Noun

é f (plural és)

1. bee

   Ch’est unne é

   It’s a bee

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

Verb and interjection:

• he (obsolete)
• eh (Internet)

Noun:

• ê

Interjection used in hesitant speech:

• éé, ééé, éééé, etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ/
• Rhymes: -ɛ

Verb

é

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of ser

Noun

é m (plural és)

1. e (name of the letter E, e)

Interjection

é

1. that’s right; yes; yeah; indicates agreement
2. erm; um; used in hesitant speech

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Spanish

Conjunction

é

1. Obsolete spelling of e