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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Fala

Verb

é

1. Third-person singular present indicative of verb sel.

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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, from Proto-Indo-European *éy.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [eː], [ə]

Pronoun

é (disjunctive)

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

Synonyms

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

Mutation

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

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ə˧˥]

• Audio

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Romanization

é (form of e2 with diacritic)

1. See 俄
2. See 吪
3. See 哦
4. See 囫
5. See 娥
6. See 峨
7. See 峩
8. See 枙
9. See 涐
10. See 珴
11. See 皒
12. See 睋
13. See 硪
14. See 磀
15. See 莪
16. See 蛾
17. See 訛
18. See 誐
19. See 譌
20. See 讹
21. See 迗
22. See 鈋
23. See 鋧
24. See 锄
25. See 隲
26. See 頟
27. See 額
28. See 额
29. See 騀
30. See 魤
31. See 鵝
32. See 鵞
33. See 鹅

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 Proto-Celtic *ēs, from Proto-Indo-European *éy.

Pronoun

é

1. he
   • circa 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, Wb. 4^c3

     Is hé as airchinnech inna n-uile.

     It is he who is the chief of all.

2. it (referring to a masculine noun)
   • circa 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, Wb. 5^b28

     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
   • circa 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, Wb. 4^a8

     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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Old Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɛ/

Verb

é

1. Third-person singular present indicative of verb seer.
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, To codex, cantiga 5 (facsimile):

     Eſta ·xviiii· é como ſṫa maria aiudou · á emperadriz de roma · a ſofrer as grãdes coitaſ per que paſſou.

     This 19th is how Holy Mary helped the empress of Rome suffer the great pains she underwent.

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• he (obsolete)
• eh (internet)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɛ/

Verb

é

1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of ser