é

Character	é
Unicode name	LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
Latin-1 Supplement	U+00E9

See also Appendix:Variations of "e"

Translingual

Letter

é lower case (upper case É)

1. The letter e with an acute accent.

See also

• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Ss  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter E):  Éé  Èè  Êê  Ḙḙ  Ěě  Ĕĕ  Ẽẽ  Ḛḛ  Ẻẻ  Ėė  Ëë  Ēē  Ȩȩ  Ęę  ᶒ  Ɇɇ  Ȅȅ  Ếế  Ềề  Ễễ  Ểể  Ḝḝ  Ḗḗ  Ḕḕ  Ȇȇ  Ẹẹ  Ệệ  ⱸ  ᴇ  Ｅｅ  Ææ  Ǽǽ  Ǣǣ  &  Œœ  ᵫ
• (Letters using acute accent or double acute accent):  Áá  Ắắ  Ấấ  Ǻǻ  Ćć  Ḉḉ  Éé  Ếế  Ǵǵ  Íí  Ḯḯ  Ḱḱ  Ĺĺ  Ḿḿ  Ńń  Óó  Őő  Ớớ  Ṍṍ  Ǿǿ  Ṕṕ  Ŕŕ  Śś  Úú  Űű  Ứứ  Ẃẃ  Ýý  Źź  Ǽǽ

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Czech

Letter

é (lower case, upper case É)

1. The ninth letter of the Czech alphabet, after e and before ě

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Galician

Etymology

From Latin est, inflected form of sum.

Verb

é

1. is; third-person singular present indicative of ser

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Hungarian

Etymology

The standard Latin letter e with the addition of the acute accent which indicates both modified sound and extended length.

Letter

é

1. A letter of the Hungarian alphabet, long e.

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish é.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [eː], [ə]

Pronoun

é (disjunctive)

1. he, him; (referring to a masculine noun) it

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h prefix	with t- prefix
é	n-é	hé	t-é
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Related terms

• sé (conjunctive)
• eisean (emphatic disjunctive)
• seisean (emphatic conjunctive)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ə˧˥]

• Audio

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Romanization

é (form of e2 with diacritic)

1. 俄: sudden(ly), soon; Russian
2. 吪: move
3. 哦: oh? really? is that so?
4. 囫: entire, whole
5. 娥: be beautiful; good; used as a surname
6. 峨: lofty
7. 峩: lofty
8. 枙:
9. 涐:
10. 珴:
11. 皒:
12. 睋:
13. 硪:
14. 磀:
15. 莪: artemisia
16. 蛾: moth
17. 訛: swindle, cheat; erroneous, wrong; accent, dialect
18. 誐:
19. 譌: false, erroneous
20. 讹: swindle, cheat; erroneous, wrong
21. 迗:
22. 鈋:
23. 鋧:
24. 锄: hoe; eradicate
25. 隲: stallion; promote
26. 頟: the forehead; a fixed number
27. 額: forehead; tablet, plaque; fixed
28. 额: forehead; tablet, plaque; fixed
29. 騀:
30. 魤:
31. 鵝: goose
32. 鵞: goose
33. 鹅: goose

References

• Wenlin

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Min Nan

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ e˥˧ ]

Adjective

é (POJ, traditional and simplified 矮)

1. (not tall) short

References

• "矮" (in Taiwanese/English). On-line Taiwanese/Mandarin Dictionary (台文／華文線頂辭典). URL accessed on 2011-01-29.

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

• hé
• hǽ

Pronunciation

• IPA: /eː/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *es or *ēs, from Proto-Indo-European *éy.

Pronoun

é

1. he

   Is hé as airchinnech inna n-uile. – "It is he who is the chief of all."

2. it (referring to a masculine noun)

   Ní tú nod·n-ail, acht is hé not·ail. – "It is not you that nourishes it, but it that nourishes you."

Related terms

• ésom (emphatic)

Descendants

• Irish: é
• Scottish Gaelic: e
• Manx: eh

Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *ēs (compare Middle Welsh wy), from nominative *eyes or accusative *ens, from Proto-Indo-European *éy.

Pronoun

é

1. they

   Nitat pecthi collnidi híccatar and ind echt so cebtar hé riam. – "It is not fleshly sins that are paid for there now, though it was they before."

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Portuguese

Verb

é

1. third-person singular indicative present form of ser