each

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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englisheche,fromOld Englishǣlċ,contraction ofǣġhwelċ,fromProto-West Germanic*aiwgahwalīk(“each, every”).CompareScotsilk,elk(“each, every”),Saterland Frisianälk(“each”),West Frisianelk,elts(“each”),Dutchelk(“each”),Low Germanelk,ellik(“each”),German Low Germanelk,elke(“each, every”),Germanjeglicher(“any”).

Pronunciation

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Determiner

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each

  1. All;every;qualifying a singular noun, indicating all examples of the thing so named seen as individual or separate items (compareevery).
    Make sure you washeachbowl well.
    The sun comes upeachmorning and setseachnight.
    • 2013July 19,Ian Sample,“Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”,inThe Guardian Weekly,volume189,number 6, page34:
      Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different timeeachnight affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.

Usage notes

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  • (all, every):The phrase beginning witheachidentifies a set of items wherein the words followingeachidentify the individual elements by their shared characteristics. The phrase is grammatically singular in number, so if the phrase is the subject of a sentence, its verb is conjugated into a third-person singular form. Similarly, any pronouns that refer to the noun phrase are singular:
    Eachcandidatehas49 votes.
    Eachvoter must decide forherself.
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Translations

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Adverb

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each(notcomparable)

  1. Forone;apiece;per.
    The apples cost 50 centseach.
  2. Individually;separately;used in a sentence with a plural subject to indicate that the action or state described by the verb applies to all members of the described group individually, rather than collectively to the entire group.
    We ordered half a chickeneach,but weeachgot a whole one.
    You areeachright in a different way.
    There are three of us and we have five dollarseach,so that means we've got 15 dollars.

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Pronoun

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each

  1. Every one/thing individually orone by one.
    I'm going to giveeachof you a chance to win.
    Fromeachaccording to his ability, toeachaccording to his needs.

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Noun

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each(pluraleaches)

  1. (operations,philosophy)An individual item: the least quantitative unit in a grouping.
    • 1999,William S. Paasche, Thomas D. Kerker,System and method for managing recurring orders in a computer network,US Patent7359871(PDF version),page50:
      In one embodiment, there is an additional charge when ordering products as an “each”compared to the unit cost of the item when ordered by the case.
    • 2007,David E. Mulcahy,Eaches or Pieces Order Fulfillment, Design, and Operations Handbook(Series on resource management),Auerbach Publications,→ISBN,page385:
      Aneach,piece, single item, or individual item package.
    • 2012,Arthur V. Hill, “unit of measure”, in edited by Barry Render,The Encyclopedia of Operations Management,FT Press,→ISBN,page373:
      The commonly used term “each”means that each individual item is one unit.
    • 2008,Frederick Neuhouser,Rousseau's theodicy of self-love,Oxford University Press,→ISBN,page238:
      Amour-proprewould be able to take an interest in assuming the standpoint of reason, then, if applying 'each'to oneself in rational deliberation were simultaneously bound up with publicly establishing oneself as an 'each'

Derived terms

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References

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Anagrams

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Irish

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Etymology

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PIE word
*h₁éḱwos

FromOld Irishech,[1]fromProto-Celtic*ekʷos,fromProto-Indo-European*h₁éḱwos(“horse”).

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Noun

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eachm(genitive singulareich,nominative pluraleacha)

  1. (archaic)horse

Declension

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Declension ofeach

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative each eacha
Vocative aeich aeacha
Genitive eich each
Dative each eacha

Forms with thedefinite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ant-each naheacha
Genitive aneich nan-each
Dative leis aneach

doneach

leis naheacha

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis withh-prothesis witht-prothesis
each n-each heach t-each
Note:Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ech”,ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^Finck, F. N.(1899)Die araner mundart(in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page22
  3. ^Quiggin, E. C.(1906)A Dialect of Donegal,Cambridge University Press, page62

Further reading

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Scottish Gaelic

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Each.

Etymology

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PIE word
*h₁éḱwos

FromOld Irishech,[1]fromPrimitive Irish*ᚓᚊᚐᚄ(*eqas),fromProto-Celtic*ekʷos.Cognates includeIrisheachandManxagh.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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eachm(genitive singulareich,pluraleich)

  1. horse(Equus caballus)
    tha an t-eachnathrotan―the horse is trotting
    air muineich―onhorseback
    Còair a tha sibh a'bruidhinn?– Tha sinn a' bruidhinn aireich!
    Who/what are you talking about? –None of your business!
    (literally, “We are talking about horses”)
  2. (dated)brute(coarse person)

Declension

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Declension ofeach(type I masculine noun)
Indefinite
Singular Plural
Nominative each eich
Genitive eich each
Dative each eich;eachaibh✝
Definite
Singular Plural
Nominative (an)t-each (na)h-eich
Genitive (an)eich (nan)each
Dative (an)each (na)h-eich;h-eachaibh✝
Vocative eich eacha

✝obsolete form, used until the 19th century

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Eclipsis withh-prothesis witht-prothesis
each n-each h-each t-each
Note:Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ech”,ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^Borgstrøm, Carl Hj.(1937)The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides,Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap

Further reading

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “each”, inFaclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan‎[1],10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited,→ISBN
  • Colin Mark(2003) “each”, inThe Gaelic-English dictionary,London: Routledge,→ISBN,page253

West Frisian

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Etymology

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FromOld Frisianāge,fromProto-Germanic*augô,ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*h₃ekʷ-(“eye; to see”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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eachn(pluraleagen,diminutiveeachje)

  1. eye

Further reading

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  • “each (I)”,inWurdboek fan de Fryske taal(in Dutch),2011
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