é

See also: Appendix:Variations of "e"
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

VerbEdit

é

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

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

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

PronounEdit

é (emphatic form eisean, disjunctive)

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

See alsoEdit

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.

MutationEdit

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.

LigurianEdit

VerbEdit

é

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

LoteEdit

NumeralEdit

é

  1. one

SynonymsEdit

ReferencesEdit

MandarinEdit

PronunciationEdit

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RomanizationEdit

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

ReferencesEdit

Min NanEdit

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

Old IrishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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

PronounEdit

é (feminine sí, 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 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.
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 hé riam.
      It is not fleshly sins that are paid for there now, though it was they before.

Old PortugueseEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

é

  1. third-person singular present indicative of seer

Old SpanishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin et.

PronunciationEdit

ConjunctionEdit

é

  1. and

DescendantsEdit

  • Ladino: i
  • Spanish: y

PicardEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin apis.

NounEdit

é f (plural és)

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

PortugueseEdit

Alternative formsEdit

Verb and interjection:

  • he (obsolete)
  • eh (Internet)

Noun:

Interjection used in hesitant speech:

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

é

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

NounEdit

é m (plural és)

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

InterjectionEdit

é

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

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

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