ey
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Middle English ei, ey, from Old English ǣġ, from Proto-West Germanic *aij, from Proto-Germanic *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm. Doublet of egg, huevo, oeuf, and ovum.
This native English form was displaced by the Old Norse–derived egg in the 16th century, most likely due to its clashing with the word eye, wherewith it had come to be a homonym.
Noun
[edit]ey (plural eyren)
- (obsolete) An egg. [dated since the 16th century]
- 1490, William Caxton, Prologue to Eneydos:
- And one of theym... cam in to an hows and axed for mete and specyally he axyd after eggys, 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 hadde egges; and she understode hym not. And thenne at laste a-nother sayd that he wolde have eyren. Then the good wyf sayd that she understod hym wel. Loo, what sholde a man in thyse dayes now wryte, egges, or eyren? Certaynly it is hard to playse every man, by-cause of dyversite and chaunge of langage.
- 1787, originally 1381, Liber quotidianus contrarotulatoris garderobae:
- Take brothe of capons withoute herbes, and breke eyren, 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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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Coined by Christine M. Elverson in 1975 by removing the "th" from they.
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]ey (third-person singular, nominative case, accusative em, possessive adjective eir, possessive noun eirs, reflexive emself)
- (rare, epicene, nonstandard) A gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, one of the so-called Spivak pronouns, equivalent to the singular they and coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ey.
Synonyms
[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]Inherited from Middle English ei, i, ie, from Old English ēġ, īġ, īeġ, from Proto-West Germanic *auwju, from Proto-Germanic *awjō (“watery land, floodplain, island”), earlier *agwjō ~ *ahwjō (literally “(that which is) of the water”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂ (“flowing water”) + *-yeh₂.
Noun
[edit]ey (plural eys)
- (UK) A small island formed by the buildup of silt or gravel at the confluence of two rivers or streams.
- 1927, Essex Naturalist, page 280:
- 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, an ey, or island, of this latter kind — Crip's-ey, Dom's-ey, and Pin's-ey, respectively; and I suggest that, from these three eys, each of the three streams indicated derived the final element of its name.
- 2009, Julie Wileman, War and Rumours of War, page 81:
- Runnymede Bridge is situated on an 'ey' – a small gravel islet close to the river bank.
- A place that has a name ending in "-ey" because it is or was located at such an island.
- 1888 January 28, Walter de Gray Birch, “WASA, ISIS, OCK”, in Academy and Literature, volume 33, number 821, page 63:
- Among the many eys, 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, page 76:
- In Saxon the word ey meant peninsula as well as island, and there are plenty of other eys about —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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[edit]See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Azerbaijani
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Interjection
[edit]ey
- Used to call someone's attention.
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Derived from Middle High German ei, a common interjection. In contemporary German possibly reinforced by Turkish ey (“vocative particle”), English hey.
Pronunciation
[edit]Interjection
[edit]ey (colloquial, originally youth slang)
- Used to call someone's attention, or as an intensifier when placed at the end.
- Boah, ey!
- (Whoa), man!
- Ey Peter, komm mal kucken, was hier auf dem Schild steht!
- Hey Peter, check out what this sign here says!
- 2016 April 8, Jenni Zylka, quoting Udo Lindenberg, “Echo-Verleihung: Preis, der es jedem recht machen will”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz[3], →ISSN:
- Der unkorrumpierbare Udo Lindenberg, der seinen „Bestes Video national“-Gewinn galant mit „Geilomat, ey“ kommentierte […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Expresses indignation or disgust; 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.
See also
[edit]Icelandic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Derived from Old Norse ey, from Proto-Germanic *awjō.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ey f (genitive singular eyjar, nominative plural eyjar)
Declension
[edit]The dative singular eyju/eyjunni also occurs, but is on its own indistinguishable from the dative of the weak form eyja.
Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Old English æġ, from Proto-West Germanic *aij, from Proto-Germanic *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”). Doublet of egge.
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- English: ey (obsolete)
References
[edit]- “ei, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
[edit]Inherited from Old English īeġ, īg, from Proto-West Germanic *auwju, from Proto-Germanic *awjō (“floodplain; island”).
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ey
Descendants
[edit]- English: ey
References
[edit]- “ei, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 3
[edit]Derived from Latin ei and Old French ahi, äi.
Alternative forms
[edit]Interjection
[edit]ey
- An exclamation of surprise, challenge, or inquiry.
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “ei, interj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 4
[edit]Adverb
[edit]ey
- Alternative form of ay (“always”)
Etymology 5
[edit]Noun
[edit]ey (plural eyen)
- Alternative form of eye (“eye”)
Etymology 6
[edit]Noun
[edit]ey (uncountable)
- Alternative form of eye (“fear; awe”)
- To have no ey for nought.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- c. 1470, O lord omnipotent:
- Exhorting thy people to have a special ey, That thee to praise they never cease.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Verb
[edit]ey
- to awe
Middle Welsh
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]ey
Old Norse
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Derived from Proto-Germanic *aiwaz m, *aiwō f (“long time, age, eternity”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *h₂óyu ~ *h₂yéws. Cognate of Proto-Finnic *auvo.
Adverb
[edit]ey
Alternative forms
[edit]References
[edit]- “ey1”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Etymology 2
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Germanic *awjō.
Noun
[edit]ey f (genitive eyjar, dative eyju, plural eyjar)
Declension
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- ᚢ (u) — runic
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “ey2”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Etymology 3
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Norse ᚨᚢᛃᚨ (auja), itself from Proto-Germanic *aują n, itself from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- (“enjoy”). Related to auð- (“easy, easily”), from Proto-Germanic *auþuz (“easy”), whence Old English ieþe (“easy”).
Noun
[edit]ey n
- (hapax) luck, fortune
- In a prayer towards the Cross recorded in Landnámabók
- Gótt ey gǫmlum mǫnnum, gótt ey ungum mǫnnum.
- Good fortune to old men, good fortune to young men.
- In a prayer towards the Cross recorded in Landnámabók
Declension
[edit]References
[edit]- ey ‘good fortune’ at the Dictionary of Old Norse Prose
Portuguese
[edit]Verb
[edit]ey
Somali
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]èy m (plural éy or eyo f)
Spanish
[edit]Alternative forms
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[edit]Interjection
[edit]¡ey!
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “ey”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perhaps borrowed from Turkish ey (vocative article).
Interjection
[edit]ey
- (slang) Used to call someone's attention.
- Ey, mannen, vi gittar!
- Hey, man, let's get out of here!
See also
[edit]- hej (has a list of greetings and farewells)
References
[edit]Tagalog
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English ay, the English name of the letter A/a.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈʔej/ [ˈʔeɪ̯]
- Rhymes: -ej
- Syllabification: ey
Noun
[edit]ey (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜌ᜔)
- the name of the Latin-script letter A/a, in the Filipino alphabet
- Synonym: a
See also
[edit]- (Latin-script letter names) titik; ey, bi, si, di, i, ef, dyi, eyts, ay, dyey, key, el, em, en, enye, en dyi, o, pi, kyu, ar, es, ti, yu, vi, dobolyu, eks, way, zi
Further reading
[edit]- “ey”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
Anagrams
[edit]Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare Azerbaijani ey.
Pronunciation
[edit]Interjection
[edit]ey
- vocative particle
- Ey Türk gençliği! Birinci vazifen, Türk istiklâlini, Türk Cumhuriyeti'ni, ilelebet muhafaza ve müdafaa etmektir.
- O Turkish youth! Your first duty is to conserve and to defend forever Turkish independence and the Turkish Republic.
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