ey

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See also:-ey,-ey-,EY,əy,andeþ

English

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Etymology 1

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InheritedfromMiddle Englishei,ey,fromOld Englishǣġ,fromProto-West Germanic*aij,fromProto-Germanic*ajją,fromProto-Indo-European*h₂ōwyóm.Doubletofegg,huevo,oeuf,andovum.

This native English form was displaced by the Old Norse–derivedeggin the 16th century, most likely due to confusion with the homonymeye.

A box of teneyren.

Noun

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ey(pluraleyren)

  1. (obsolete)Anegg.[dated since the 16th century]
    • 1490,William Caxton,Prologue toEneydos:
      And one of theym... cam in to an hows and axed for mete and specyally he axyd aftereggys,and the goode wyf answerde that she could speke no Frenshe. And the marchaunt was angry, for he also coude speke no Frenshe, but wolde have haddeegges;and she understode hym not. And thenne at laste a-nother sayd that he wolde haveeyren.Then the good wyf sayd that she understod hym wel. Loo, what sholde a man in thyse dayes now wryte,egges,oreyren?Certaynly it is hard to playse every man, by-cause of dyversite and chaunge of langage.
    • 1787,originally1381,Liber quotidianus contrarotulatoris garderobae:
      Take brothe of capons withoute herbes, and brekeeyren,and cast into the pot, and make a crudde therof, and colour hit with saffron, and then presse oute the brothe and kerve it on leches; and then take swete creme of almondes, or of cowe mylk, and boyle hit;[…]
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Etymology 2

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Coinedby Christine M. Elverson in 1975 by removing the "th" fromthey.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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ey(third-person singular, nominative case,accusativeem,possessive adjectiveeir,possessive nouneirs,reflexiveemself)

  1. (rare,epicene,nonstandard)Agender-neutralthird-person singular subject pronoun, one of the so-calledSpivak pronouns,equivalent to the singulartheyand coordinate with gendered pronounsheandshe.
    • 1975August 23, Judie Black, “Ey has a word for it”, inChicago Tribune,section 1, page12:
      Eirsentences would sound smoother sinceeywouldn't clutter them with the old sexist pronouns. And ifeyshould trip up in the new usage,eywould only haveemselfto blame.
    • 1996December 22, Shirley Worth, “New To Yoga”, inalt.yoga‎[1](Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:
      I'm not familiar with this book, but I encourage Marksmill to look for it-- and whileeyis at it, to also look at a number of other books.
    • 1997November 25, Scott Robert Dawson, “Who Pays for Cellular Calls”, inalt.cellular‎[2](Usenet), message-ID <[email protected] >:
      If a mobile user is far fromeirhome area,eywill pay a long-distance fee for carriage of the call *from*eirhome area, just as a caller would pay long-distance on a call *to* that area.
    • For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:ey.
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Etymology 3

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InheritedfromMiddle Englishei,i,ie,fromOld Englishēġ,īġ,īeġ,fromProto-West Germanic*auwju,fromProto-Germanic*awjō(“watery land, floodplain, island”),earlier*agwjō~*ahwjō(literally“(that which is) of the water”),fromProto-Indo-European*h₂ékʷeh₂(“flowing water”)+‎*-yeh₂.

Noun

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ey(pluraleys)

  1. (UK)A smallislandformed by thebuildupofsiltorgravelat theconfluenceof tworiversorstreams.
    • 1927,Essex Naturalist,page280:
      Now it will be seen that each of the three small streamlets named forms, at its junction with the larger river into which it flows, aney,or island, of this latter kind — Crip's-ey, Dom's-ey, and Pin's-ey, respectively; and I suggest that, from these threeeys,each of the three streams indicated derived the final element of its name.
    • 2009,Julie Wileman,War and Rumours of War,page81:
      Runnymede Bridge is situated on an 'ey'– a small gravel islet close to the river bank.
  2. A place that has a name ending in "-ey" because it is or was located at such an island.
    • 1888January 28, Walter de Gray Birch, “WASA, ISIS, OCK”, inAcademy and Literature,volume33,number821,page63:
      Among the manyeys,eyots, or islands, clustering about Oxford, at or near the confluence of the Isis and Cherwell, viz., Binsey, Botley, Hinksey, Iffley, Osney, Oxey, Pixey, &c., there are two, vis., Osney and Oxey, which manifestly enshrine this rivername.
    • 1924,Arthur Hadrian Allcroft,Downland Pathways,page76:
      In Saxon the word ey meant peninsula as well as island, and there are plenty of othereysabout —Langney and Hydeney and Horsey to wit, Chilly and Rickney and Northeye and Mountney.
    • 2018,Bob Gilbert,Ghost Trees: Nature and People in a London Parish:
      Bermondsey, Stepney, Hackney; there are many of these 'eys'in London and they were all once islands, or higher, dryer points in the surrounding marshlands.
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Etymology 4

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Noun

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ey(pluraleys)

  1. Obsoleteform ofeye.

See also

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  • suffix-ey
  • ey up(probably etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

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Azerbaijani

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Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)

Interjection

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ey

  1. Used to call someone's attention.

German

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Etymology

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DerivedfromMiddle High Germanei,a commoninterjection.In contemporary German possibly reinforced byTurkishey(“vocative particle”),Englishhey.

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Interjection

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ey(colloquial,originallyyouthslang)

  1. Used to call someone's attention, or as anintensifierwhen placed at the end.
    Boah,ey!
    (Whoa),man!
    EyPeter, komm mal kucken, was hier auf dem Schild steht!
    HeyPeter, check out what this sign here says!
    • 2016April 8, Jenni Zylka, quotingUdo Lindenberg,“Echo-Verleihung: Preis, der es jedem recht machen will”, inDie Tageszeitung: taz‎[3],→ISSN:
      Der unkorrumpierbare Udo Lindenberg, der seinen „Bestes Video national “-Gewinn galant mit „Geilomat,ey“kommentierte[…]
      (pleaseadd an English translationof this quotation)
  2. Expressesindignationordisgust;oi
    Ey,lass den Scheiß! So geht man nicht mit anderen Leuten um.
    Oi,quit that shit! That is not how you treat other people.

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Icelandic

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IcelandicWikipediahas an article on:
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Etymology

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DerivedfromOld Norseey,fromProto-Germanic*awjō.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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eyf(genitive singulareyjar,nominative pluraleyjar)

  1. island

Declension

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Declension ofey
f-s1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ey eyin eyjar eyjarnar
accusative ey eyna eyjar eyjarnar
dative ey eynni eyjum eyjunum
genitive eyjar eyjarinnar eyja eyjanna

The dative singulareyju/eyjunnialso occurs, but is on its own indistinguishable from the dative of the weak formeyja.

Kankanaey

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Etymology 1

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BorrowedfromTagalogey,from Englishay,the English name of the letterA/a.

Pronunciation

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  • (Standard Kankanaey)IPA(key):/ˈʔej/[ˈʔei̯]
  • Rhymes:-ej
  • Syllabification:ey

Noun

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ey

  1. The name of theLatin-scriptletterA/a.
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Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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  • (Standard Kankanaey)IPA(key):/ˈʔəj/[ˈʔɨi̯]
  • Rhymes:-əj
  • Syllabification:ey

Interjection

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ëy

  1. An interjection beginning eachstropheindaingsongs

Noun

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ëy

  1. act ofcarrying,transporting,moving
Derived terms
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References

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  • Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino (2016)Ortograpiya di Kankanaëy‎[4](in Kankanaey and Tagalog),→ISBN,pages10-11
  • Morice Vanoverbergh (1933) “ey”, inA Dictionary of Lepanto Igorot or Kankanay. As it is spoken at Bauco(Linguistische Anthropos-Bibliothek; XII)‎[5],Mödling bei Wien, St. Gabriel, Österreich: Verlag der Internationalen Zeitschrift „Anthropos “,→OCLC,page153
  • Allen, Larry (2021) “ey”, inKankanaey – English Dictionary‎[6],Summer Institute of Linguistics

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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InheritedfromOld Englishæġ,fromProto-West Germanic*aij,fromProto-Germanic*ajją,fromProto-Indo-European*h₂ōwyóm(“egg”).Doubletofegge.

Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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ey(pluraleyreoreyren)

  1. egg(especially of a chicken or other fowl)
    Synonym:eg
Descendants
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  • English:ey(obsolete)

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Etymology 2

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DerivedfromLatineiandOld Frenchahi,äi.

Alternative forms

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Interjection

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ey

  1. An exclamation of surprise, challenge, or inquiry.
Descendants
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Etymology 3

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Adverb

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ey

  1. Alternative form ofay(“always”)

Etymology 4

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Noun

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ey(pluraleyen)

  1. Alternative form ofeye(“eye”)

Etymology 5

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Noun

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ey(uncountable)

  1. Alternative form ofeye(“fear; awe”)
    To have noeyfor nought.
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    • c.1470,O lord omnipotent:
      Exhorting thy people to have a specialey,That thee to praise they never cease.
      (pleaseadd an English translationof this quotation)

Verb

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ey

  1. toawe

Middle Welsh

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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ey

  1. second-personsingularpresentindicativeofmynet

Old Norse

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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DerivedfromProto-Germanic*aiwazm,*aiwōf(“long time, age, eternity”),itself fromProto-Indo-European*h₂óyu ~ *h₂yéws.Cognate ofProto-Finnic*auvo.

Adverb

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ey

  1. always,ever
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References

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  • “ey1”,inGeir T. Zoëga (1910)A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic,Oxford: Clarendon Press

Etymology 2

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InheritedfromProto-Germanic*awjō.

Noun

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eyf(genitiveeyjar,dativeeyju,pluraleyjar)

  2. island
Declension
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Declension ofey(strongjō-stem)
feminine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ey eyin eyjar eyjarnar
accusative ey eyna eyjar eyjarnar
dative ey,eyju eynni,eyjunni eyjum eyjunum
genitive eyjar eyjarinnar eyja eyjanna
Alternative forms
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Descendants
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  • Icelandic:eyf,eyjaf
  • Faroese:oyggjf,oyf
  • Norwegian Nynorsk:øy
    • Norwegian Bokmål:øy
  • Old Swedish:ø̄
    • Swedish:öc
  • Danish:øc
    • →English:oe
  • Gutnish:oy
  • →Old Irish:íf
  • ⇒Old Norse:-ey(indicating island names)
    • →English:-ey,-ay(in place names)

References

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  • “ey2”,inGeir T. Zoëga (1910)A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic,Oxford: Clarendon Press

Etymology 3

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InheritedfromProto-Norseᚨᚢᛃᚨ(auja),itself fromProto-Germanic*aująn,itself fromProto-Indo-European*h₂ew-(“enjoy”).Related toauð-(“easy, easily”),fromProto-Germanic*auþuz(“easy”),whenceOld Englishieþe(“easy”).

Noun

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eyn

  2. (hapax)luck,fortune
    • In a prayer towards the Cross recorded inLandnámabók
      Gótteygǫmlum mǫnnum, gótteyungum mǫnnum.
      Goodfortuneto old men, goodfortuneto young men.
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Declension ofey(strongja-stem)
neuter singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ey eyit ey eyin
accusative ey eyit ey eyin
dative eyi eyinu eyjum eyjunum
genitive eys eysins eyja eyjanna

References

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  • ey‘good fortune’ at the Dictionary of Old Norse Prose

Portuguese

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Verb

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ey

  1. Obsoletespelling ofhei.

Somali

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Etymology

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(Thisetymologyis missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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Noun

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èym(pluraléyoreyof)

  1. dog

Spanish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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BorrowedfromEnglishhey.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key):/ˈei/[ˈei̯]
  • Rhymes:-ei
  • Syllabification:ey

Interjection

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¡ey!

  1. hey!
    Synonym:eh
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Further reading

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Swedish

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Etymology

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PerhapsborrowedfromTurkishey(vocative article).

Interjection

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ey

  1. (slang)Used to call someone's attention.
    Ey,mannen, vi gittar!
    Hey,man, let's get out of here!

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  • hej(has a list of greetings and farewells)

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Tagalog

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Etymology

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BorrowedfromEnglishay,the English name of the letterA/a.

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Noun

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ey(Baybayin spellingᜁᜌ᜔)

  1. the name of theLatin-scriptletterA/a,in theFilipino Alpha bet
    Synonym:a

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Further reading

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  • “ey”,inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph,Manila,2018

Anagrams

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Turkish

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Etymology

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CompareAzerbaijaniey.

Pronunciation

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Interjection

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ey

  1. vocative particle
    EyTürk gençliği! Birinci vazifen, Türk istiklâlini, Türk Cumhuriyeti'ni, ilelebet muhafaza ve müdafaa etmektir.
    OTurkish youth! Your first duty is to conserve and to defend forever Turkish independence and the Turkish Republic.
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