é

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Letter 2 Czech 2.1 Letter 3 Galician 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Verb 4 Hungarian 4.1 Etymology 4.2 Letter 5 Irish 5.1 Etymology 5.2 Pronunciation 5.3 Pronoun 5.3.1 Mutation 5.3.2 Related terms 6 Mandarin 6.1 Pronunciation 6.2 Pinyin 7 Min Nan 7.1 Pronunciation 7.2 Adjective 8 Old Irish 8.1 Alternative spellings 8.2 Pronunciation 8.3 Etymology 1 8.3.1 Pronoun 8.3.1.1 Related terms 8.3.1.2 Descendants 8.4 Etymology 2 8.4.1 Pronoun 9 Portuguese 9.1 Verb

[edit] Translingual

The 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 Letters using acute accent or double acute accent Áá Ắắ Ấấ Ǻǻ Ćć Ḉḉ Éé Ếế Ǵǵ Íí Ḱḱ Ĺĺ Ḿḿ Ńń Óó Őő Ớớ Ǿǿ Ṕṕ Ŕŕ Śś Úú Űű Ứứ Ẃẃ Ýý Źź Ǽǽ

[edit] Letter

é lower case (upper case É)

1. The letter e with an acute accent.

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[edit] Czech

[edit] Letter

é (lower case, upper case É)

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

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[edit] Galician

[edit] Etymology

From Latin est, inflected form of sum.

[edit] Verb

é

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

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[edit] Hungarian

[edit] Etymology

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

[edit] Letter

é

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

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[edit] Irish

[edit] Etymology

From Old Irish é.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [eː], [ə]

[edit] Pronoun

é (disjunctive)

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

[edit] 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.

[edit] Related terms

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

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [ ə˧˥ ]

[edit] Pinyin

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, erronious
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

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[edit] Min Nan

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [ e˥˧ ]

[edit] Adjective

é (POJ, traditional and simplified 矮)

1. (not tall) short

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[edit] Old Irish

[edit] Alternative spellings

• hé
• hǽ

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /eː/

[edit] Etymology 1

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

[edit] 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."

[edit] Related terms

• ésom (emphatic)

[edit] Descendants

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

[edit] Etymology 2

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

[edit] 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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[edit] Portuguese

[edit] Verb

é

1. third-person singular indicative present form of ser