ea
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English ea, e, æ, from Old English ēa (“river”), from Proto-West Germanic *ahu (“waters, river”), from Proto-Germanic *ahwō (“waters, river”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂ (“water, flowing water”). Doublet of aqua.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ea (plural eas)
- (UK dialect or archaic) A river or watercourse.
- 1866, Charles Kingsley, Hereward the Wake: Last of the English:
- And they rowed away for Crowland, by many a mere and many an ea; through narrow reaches of clear brown glassy water; between the dark-green alders; between the pale-green reeds; where the coot clanked, and the bittern boomed, and the sedge-bird, not content with its own sweet song, mocked the song of all the birds around; and then out into the broad lagoons, where hung motionless, high overhead, hawk beyond hawk, buzzard beyond buzzard, kite beyond kite, as far as eye could see.
- 1866, Charles Kingsley, Hereward the Wake: Last of the English:
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Abbreviation.
DeterminerEdit
ea
- Alternative form of ea.
ReferencesEdit
- “ea”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
AnagramsEdit
AiwooEdit
AdjectiveEdit
ea
ReferencesEdit
- Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
AromanianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin illa, feminine of ille. Compare Romanian ea.
PronounEdit
ea f (plural eali)
- (third-person feminine singular pronoun, nominative form) she
SynonymsEdit
PronounEdit
ea f
- (long/stressed accusative form) her
Related termsEdit
- el/elu (masculine equivalent (third-person singular nominative))
- eali (feminine plural), elj (masculine or mixed plural)
- u (feminine singular accusative- short/unstressed form)
- (a) ljei (feminine singular genitive and feminine singular dative- long/stressed form)
- ãlj/ilj/lji (feminine singular dative- short/unstressed form)
See alsoEdit
BasqueEdit
PronunciationEdit
ParticleEdit
ea
- Used in indirect questions as an intensifier.
- Ea nork egin dituen etxeko lanak. ― Let's see who has done the homework.
- Used to express one's desire; I hope, I wish
- Ea azkar sendatzen zaren. ― I hope you get well soon.
Usage notesEdit
When using this particle, the verb takes the conjunction -n.
Further readingEdit
EstonianEdit
NounEdit
ea
HawaiianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Polynesian *eqa.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ea
VerbEdit
ea
- (intransitive) to rise, go up
- (intransitive) to smell
ReferencesEdit
- “ea” in the Hawaiian Dictionary, Revised and Enlarged Edition, University of Hawaii Press, 1986
IrishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- eadh (obsolete)
EtymologyEdit
From Old Irish ed (“it”). Ultimately akin to English it, Latin id, etc.
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
ea
Usage notesEdit
- Only used with the copula, in constructions that do not reference any noun.
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit
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 | |
Third neuter | — | ea | — | |
Plural | First | muid, sinn (muidne, muide), (sinne) |
ár E | |
Second | sibh (sibhse)1 |
bhur E | ||
Third | siad (siadsan) |
iad (iadsan) |
a E |
KoreanEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From English ea. (“whole piece”).
SymbolEdit
ea
LatinEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Inflected forms.
PronunciationEdit
- ea: (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈe.a/, [ˈeä]
- ea: (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈe.a/, [ˈɛːä]
- eā: (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈe.aː/, [ˈeäː]
- eā: (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈe.a/, [ˈɛːä]
PronounEdit
ea
- nominative feminine singular of is: "she", "it" (referring to feminine nouns), or demonstratively (as a demonstrative pronoun) "this", "that" (likewise referring to feminine nouns)
- nominative neuter plural of is: "they (things)"
- accusative neuter plural of is: "them (things)"
PronounEdit
eā f
See alsoEdit
Number | Person | Gender | Nominative | Genitive | Dative | Accusative | Ablative | Possessive |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | First | — | ego | meī | mihi | mē | meus, -a, -um | |
Second | — | tū | tuī | tibi | tē | tuus, -a, -um | ||
Reflexive third | — | — | suī | sibi | sē, sēsē | suus, -a, -um | ||
Third | Masculine | is | eius | eī | eum | eō | eius | |
Feminine | ea | eam | eā | |||||
Neuter | id | id | eō | |||||
Plural | First | — | nōs | nostrī, nostrum | nōbīs | nōs | nōbīs | noster, -tra, -trum |
Second | — | vōs | vestrī, vestrum | vōbīs | vōs | vōbīs | vester, -tra, -trum | |
Reflexive third | — | — | suī | sibi | sē, sēsē | suus, -a, -um | ||
Third | Masculine | eī, iī | eōrum | eīs | eōs | eīs | eōrum | |
Feminine | eae | eārum | eās | eārum | ||||
Neuter | ea | eōrum | ea | eōrum |
Etymology 2Edit
Declined from is. It stands as if for eā viā ("this/that way"). Compare eō.
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
eā (not comparable)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “ea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the vegetable kingdom: ea, quae terra gignit
- the vegetable kingdom: ea, quae e terra gignuntur
- the vegetable kingdom: ea, quae a terra stirpibus continentur
- the vegetable kingdom: ea quorum stirpes terra continentur (N. D. 2. 10. 26)
- eastern, western Germany: Germania quae or Germaniae ea pars quae, ad orientem, occidentem vergit
- to be of such and such an age: ea aetate, id aetatis esse
- this is our natural tendency, our destiny; nature compels us: ita (ea lege, ea condicione) nati sumus
- all depends on this; this is the decisive point: in ea re omnia vertuntur
- with the intention of..: eo consilio, ea mente, ut
- on condition of..: ea lege, ut
- what is your opinion: quid de ea re fieri placet?
- (ambiguous) I blame this in you; I censure you for this: hoc in te reprehendo (not ob eam rem)
- (ambiguous) to happen to think of..: in eam cogitationem incidere
- (ambiguous) to induce a person to think that..: aliquem ad eam cogitationem adducere ut
- (ambiguous) to discuss a subject more fully on the same lines: plura in eam sententiam disputare
- (ambiguous) peace is concluded on condition that..: pax convenit in eam condicionem, ut...
- the vegetable kingdom: ea, quae terra gignit
- Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)
LinduEdit
AdjectiveEdit
ea
Middle EnglishEdit
NounEdit
ea
- Alternative form of æ
Old EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-West Germanic *ahu, from Proto-Germanic *ahwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂ (“water”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ēa f (nominative plural ēa or ēan)
DeclensionEdit
DescendantsEdit
See alsoEdit
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin illa, feminine of ille.
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
ea f (third-person singular, plural ele, masculine equivalent el)
- (nominative form) she
DeclensionEdit
Nominative | |||
---|---|---|---|
ea | |||
Accusative | |||
stressed | unstressed | ||
ea | o | ||
Genitive | |||
ei | |||
Singular | Plural | ||
m & n | f | m | f & n |
său | sa | săi | sale |
Dative | |||
stressed | unstressed | ||
ei | îi | ||
Reflexive | |||
Accusative | Dative | ||
stressed | unstressed | stressed | unstressed |
sine | se | sieși | își |
SynonymsEdit
- dumneaei (polite form)
PronounEdit
ea f (stressed accusative form of ea)
- (direct object, preceded by preposition, such as "pe", "cu", "la", or "pentru") her
Related termsEdit
- el (third-person masculine singular)
- ei (third-person masculine plural)
- ele (third-person feminine plural)
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ea in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
RomanschEdit
Alternative formsEdit
AdverbEdit
ea
Related termsEdit
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader) bain
- (Sursilvan) bein
- (Sutsilvan) bagn
- (Surmiran) gea bagn
- (Puter, Vallader) bainschi, hei, bainschi hei
- (Vallader) hai, bainschi hai
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
InterjectionEdit
¡ea!
- come on!, come now! (expressing encouragement)
- so, and so, now (expressing resolution, preceding a willful resolution)
Further readingEdit
- “ea”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
West FrisianEdit
EtymologyEdit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
ea
Further readingEdit
- “ea”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011