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ë

See also: Appendix:Variations of "e"
ë U+00EB, ë
LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS
Composition:e [U+0065] + ◌̈ [U+0308]
← ê
[U+00EA] 		Latin-1 Supplement ì →
[U+00EC]

Translingual

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ë

  1. (NAPA) a close-mid back unrounded vowel (IPA [ɤ]).

English

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ë

  1. (lexicography, dated) An orthographic ⟨e⟩ with a diacritic that marks it as being the FACE vowel, as in the word "cafe".

Albanian

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Pronunciation

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ë (lower case Ë)

  1. The eighth letter of the Albanian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Bube

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Determiner

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ë

  1. The augment for class 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 12 nouns.

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augments
  • a (classes 2, 6, 6b, 16)
  • i (class 10)
  • ö (classes 1, 3, 11, 13)

References

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  • Justo Bolekia (2009) Diccionario español-bubi, Akal, →ISBN, page 23

Chipewyan

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ë (upper case Ë)

  1. A letter of the Chipewyan alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Dinka

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Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /e̤/

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ë (upper case Ë)

  1. A letter of the Dinka alphabet, written in the Latin script.

French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ə/, /ɛ/
  • Audio:(file)

Letter

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ë (lower case Ë)

  1. the letter “e” in words when it must be pronounced separately and not associated with preceding letter. E.g. “-gue” is normally pronounced /ɡ/ but “-guë” is pronounce /ɡy/ (like in aiguë, ciguë); “œ” is normally pronounced /e/ or /ɛ/ but “oë” is pronounced /o.ɛ/ (like in troëne, Noël)

Hungarian

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Pronunciation

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ë (lower case, upper case Ë)

  1. The close-mid front unrounded vowel as used in several Hungarian dialects;[1][2] more closed than the sound of e and shorter than that of é; used instead of e in certain, lexically determined places.
    Synonym: zárt e (literally “closed e”)
  2. The symbol to indicate this sound.[3]

Usage notes

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It can distinguish certain words that are otherwise homophones in the current standard (so it can act like a phoneme), e.g. nem: nem (“gender, genus”) and nëm (“not”);[4] mentek: mentëk (“I save”), mentek (“exempt [plural]”), mëntëk (“you go [plural]”), and mëntek (“they went”).[5]

Declension

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

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ …a zárt ë-t azonban lakosságunknak körülbelül 60%-a megkülönbözteti a nyílt e-től, tehát sokak számára természetes. Nem csupán nyelvjárási jelenség tehát, bár a nagyvárosi beszédből valóban hiányzik. (“…however, closed ë is distinguished from open e by approximately 60% of our population, so it is natural for many. Therefore, it is not only a dialectal phenomenon, although it is indeed missing from urban speech.”) In: Zimányi, Árpád. Nyelvhelyesség (’Standard Usage’). Eger: EKF Líceum Kiadó, 2005. A hatodik kiadás digitális változata (’Digital version of the sixth edition’), page 18.
  2. ^ Especially in the Western Transdanubian, Central Transdanubian, and the Székely/​Szekler dialects. In: A. Jászó, Anna, editor. A magyar nyelv könyve (’A Book of the Hungarian Language’). Eighth edition. Budapest: Trezor Kiadó, 2007. (First edition: 1991.) →ISBN, pp. 665–676.
  3. ^ See in square brackets e.g. by clicking the declension code “2B” at elv in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024). as well as at the top of the entry of ember in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN..
  4. ^ Ëe-ző szótár. Alapszókincs (Kiejtes.hu)
  5. ^ Buvári Márta: Az „ë-zés” köznyelvisége (Kiejtes.hu)

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Kashubian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɜ/
  • Rhymes: -ɜ
  • Syllabification: ë

Etymology 1

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The Kashubian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Kashubian alphabet article on Wikipedia for more, and ë for development of the glyph itself.

Letter

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ë (lower case, upper case Ë)

  1. The ninth letter of the Kashubian alphabet, written in the Latin script.
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Etymology 2

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Conjunction

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ë

  1. Alternative form of i

Further reading

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  • Stefan Ramułt (1893) “é”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 35
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “i”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎[1], volume 1, page 515
  • “ë”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Ladin

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Pronunciation

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ë (upper case Ë)

  1. The open-mid central unrounded vowel as used in the Gherdëina variant of Ladin.

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Luxembourgish

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ë (upper case Ë)

  1. A letter of the Luxembourgish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Middle High German

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Etymology

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The letter ë indicates the sound /ɛ/, which derives from Proto-Germanic *e (as in ëȥȥen) or *i (as in lëben), distinguished from e /e/ (also spelt ẹ), which usually derives from Proto-Germanic *a.

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ë

  1. A letter sometimes used in normalised Middle High German spelling. It is optional in editions and never found in actual manuscripts.

Noon

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ë (upper case Ë)

  1. A letter of the Noon alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Romani

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Pronunciation

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ë (lower case, upper case Ë)

  1. (International Standard) The letter e with the umlaut.

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Although it is pronounced the same as ä, it indicates a dialectal pronunciation of e.[1]

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References

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  1. ^ Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “ë”, in ニューエクスプレス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, →ISBN, page 16

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  • Marcel Courthiade (2009) “DECISION : "THE ROMANI ALPHABET"”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 499
  • “Introduction 3. How to read Rromani”, in R.E.D-RROM‎[2], 2021 October 2 (last accessed)

Slovene

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Etymology 1

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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  • (sound): IPA(key): /joː/
  • (sound, educated): IPA(key): /jɔ/

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ë (lower case, upper case Ë)

  1. (linguistics) Letter used for transcription of Russian Ё / ё.

Etymology 2

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Letter E with diaeresis (¨) to signify centralization.

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  • (Resian, phoneme): IPA(key): /ə/

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ë (lower case, upper case Ë)

  1. The ninth letter of the Slovene alphabet (Resian), written in the Latin script.

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  • Toporišič, Jože (2001) “Slovaropisna pravila”, in Slovenski pravopis (in Slovene), Ljubljana: ZRC SAZU, →ISBN, page 178
  • Steenwijk, Han (1994) Ortografia resiana = Tö jošt rozajanskë pïsanjë (overall work in Italian and Slovene), Padua: CLEUP

Slovincian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *i.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈə/
  • Rhymes: -ə
  • Syllabification: ë

Conjunction

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ë

  1. coordinating conjunction; and

Particle

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ë

  1. Introduces interrogative sentences.

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Tagalog

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ë (lower case, upper case Ë)

  1. the letter e with a diaeresis representing a schwa

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  • In Tagalog and its standardized form Filipino, ë is used to represent the schwa, particularly in words originating from other Philippine languages, for instance Maranao (Mëranaw), Pangasinan, Ilocano, and Ibaloi. Before introduction of this letter, the schwa was ambiguously represented by a or e.
  • Writing the diaeresis is recommended but not required as long as the reader is aware that the unaccented form is supposed to sound like a schwa (/ə/).
  • The use of the diaeresis to represent the central vowel schwa is possibly inspired by the use of the diaeresis in the IPA to represent centralization.

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Welsh

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Pronunciation

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  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /ˈeː/, /ˌɛ/

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ë (upper case Ë)

  1. The letter E, marked for its syllabic pronunciation distinct from adjacent vowels.
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