é U+00E9, é
LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
Composition:e [U+0065] + ◌́ [U+0301]
è
[U+00E8]
Latin-1 Supplement ê
[U+00EA]

TranslingualEdit

LetterEdit

é (upper case É)

  1. The letter e with an acute accent.

See alsoEdit

EnglishEdit

LetterEdit

é (lower case, upper case É, plural és or 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

BourguignonEdit

EtymologyEdit

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.

PrepositionEdit

é

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

Usage notesEdit

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

Related termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

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

CzechEdit

PronunciationEdit

IPA(key): [ˈɛː]

LetterEdit

é (lower case, upper case É)

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

FalaEdit

VerbEdit

é

  1. third-person singular present indicative of sel

GalicianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin est, inflected form of sum.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛ/
  • (file)

VerbEdit

é

  1. is; third-person singular present indicative of ser
    Esta árbore é dereita coma un fuso.
    This tree is straight as a spindle.

HungarianEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • (phoneme): IPA(key): [ˈeː]
  • (letter name): IPA(key): [ˈeː]

LetterEdit

é (lower case, upper case É)

  1. The tenth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called é and written in the Latin script.

DeclensionEdit

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative é é-k
accusative é-t é-ket
dative é-nek é-knek
instrumental é-vel é-kkel
causal-final é-ért é-kért
translative é-vé é-kké
terminative é-ig é-kig
essive-formal é-ként é-kként
essive-modal
inessive é-ben é-kben
superessive é-n é-ken
adessive é-nél é-knél
illative é-be é-kbe
sublative é-re é-kre
allative é-hez é-khez
elative é-ből é-kből
delative é-ről é-kről
ablative é-től é-ktől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
é-é é-ké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
é-éi é-kéi
Possessive forms of é
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. é-m é-im
2nd person sing. é-d é-id
3rd person sing. é-je é-i
1st person plural é-nk é-ink
2nd person plural é-tek é-itek
3rd person plural é-jük é-ik

See alsoEdit

Further readingEdit

  • é in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • é in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2023)

IcelandicEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

é (upper case É)

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

See alsoEdit

IrishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /eː/, /ə/; (after ba) /jeː/

PronounEdit

é (emphatic form eisean, disjunctive)

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

See alsoEdit

MutationEdit

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

LigurianEdit

VerbEdit

é

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

LoteEdit

NumeralEdit

é

  1. one

SynonymsEdit

ReferencesEdit

MandarinEdit

Alternative formsEdit

  • enonstandard

PronunciationEdit

RomanizationEdit

é (e2, Zhuyin ㄜˊ)

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Min NanEdit

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

Old Galician-PortugueseEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

é

  1. third-person singular present indicative of seer

Old IrishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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

PronounEdit

é (feminine , neuter ed, emphatic ésom)

  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 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 not·ail.
      It is not you that nourishes it, but it that nourishes you.
DescendantsEdit
  • Irish: é
  • Scottish Gaelic: e
  • Manx: eh

Etymology 2Edit

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

PronounEdit

é (emphatic ésom)

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

Old SpanishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin et.

PronunciationEdit

ConjunctionEdit

é

  1. and

DescendantsEdit

  • Ladino: i
  • Spanish: y

PicardEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French ef, from Latin apem.

NounEdit

é f (plural és)

  1. bee
    Ch’est unne é
    It’s a bee

PortugueseEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • Rhymes:
  • Hyphenation: é
  • (file)

Etymology 1Edit

From Latin est.

Alternative formsEdit

  • he (obsolete)

VerbEdit

é

  1. third-person singular present indicative of ser

Etymology 2Edit

NounEdit

é m (plural és)

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

Etymology 3Edit

InterjectionEdit

é

  1. that’s right; yes; yeah; indicates agreement
    É, eu fiz isso.
    Yeah, I did that.
  2. erm; um; used in hesitant speech
    É... você... quer sair comigo?
    Um... do you... wanna go out with me?
    Synonyms: , hum
Alternative formsEdit

RawangEdit

VerbEdit

é

  1. hey, hi, you knowǃ.
    Bøø̀ go mvshìé.
    The snake is still alive.

PrefixEdit

é

  1. marker of speech act participant involvement, but speaker is not actor.

SloveneEdit

 
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Etymology 1Edit

Letter e with acute (◌́) to signify long close-mid stressed vowel.

PronunciationEdit

  • (sound): IPA(key): /éː/, /èː/
  • (letter name): IPA(key): /òːski èː/, /òːski éː/ (ozki e)
  • Rhymes: -eː

LetterEdit

é (upper case, lower case é)

  1. Additional letter, used to denote the long stress on close-mid e.

SymbolEdit

é

  1. (non-tonal SNPT) Phonetic transcription of sound [].

Etymology 2Edit

Letter e with acute (◌́) to signify long low-pitched vowel.

PronunciationEdit

SymbolEdit

é

  1. (tonal SNPT) Phonetic transcription of sound [ɛ̀ː].

Etymology 3Edit

Letter e with acute (◌́) to signify short vowel.

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

é (lower case, usually not in upper case)

  1. (Natisone Valley dialect) Additional letter, used in some words to denote the short stress on e.

Etymology 4Edit

Letter e with acute (◌́) to signify stressed vowel.

PronunciationEdit

  • (Resian, sound): IPA(key): /ɛ/

LetterEdit

é (upper case, lower case é)

  1. (Resian) Additional letter, used to denote stress on e.

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • Toporišič, Jože (2000) Slovenska slovnica / Jože Toporišič. - 4. prenovljena in razširjena izd. (in Slovene), Obzorja, →ISBN
  • Steenwijk, Han (1994) Ortografia resiana = Tö jošt rozajanskë pïsanjë (in it, sl-rozaj), Padua: CLEUP
  • Špehonja, Nino (2012) Nediška gramatika[1] (in Italian), Poligrafice San Marco

SpanishEdit

ConjunctionEdit

é

  1. Obsolete spelling of e

SwedishEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

é

  1. Form of e, used to mark that the letter is long and fully stressed.

Usage notesEdit

  • Although this is considered a variant of e and is not an independent letter in the Swedish alphabet, it distinguishes a few words such as idé (idea) and ide (place of hibernation).

Further readingEdit

VietnameseEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

(classifier cây, hạt, hột) é ()

  1. (botany) lemon basil