ea

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1 1.1.1 Noun 1.2 Etymology 2 1.2.1 Abbreviation 1.3 Anagrams 2 Irish 2.1 Alternative forms 2.2 Etymology 2.3 Pronoun 2.3.1 Usage notes 2.3.2 Derived terms 3 Latin 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Pronunciation 1 3.2.1 Pronoun 3.3 Pronunciation 2 3.3.1 Adverb 3.3.1.1 Related terms 3.4 References 4 Old English 4.1 Alternative forms 4.2 Etymology 4.3 Noun 4.3.1 Declension 4.3.2 Descendants 5 Romanian 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Pronoun 5.2.1 Declension 5.2.2 Synonyms 6 West Frisian 6.1 Pronunciation 6.2 Adverb

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology 1

Old English ēa.

[edit] Noun

ea (plural eas)

1. (dialectal) A river or watercourse.

[edit] Etymology 2

Abbreviation.

[edit] Abbreviation

ea

1. Alternative form of ea..

[edit] Anagrams

• Anagrams of ae , AE, æ

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[edit] Irish

[edit] Alternative forms

• eadh (obsolete)

[edit] Etymology

From Old Irish ed. Ultimately akin to English it, Latin id, etc.

[edit] Pronoun

ea

1. it

[edit] Usage notes

• This pronoun is used only with the copula, in constructions that do not reference any noun.

[edit] Derived terms

• ní hea
• sea

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[edit] Latin

[edit] Etymology

Inflected form of is

[edit] Pronunciation 1

• IPA: /ˈe.a/

[edit] Pronoun

ea f.

1. (personal) "She": feminine of is.
2. Nominative neuter plural pronoun: "those (things)".
3. Accusative neuter plural pronoun: "them (things)".

[edit] Pronunciation 2

• IPA: /ˈe.aː/

[edit] Adverb

eā (not comparable)

1. there
2. that way
3. on that side

[edit] Related terms

• eāpropter
• eātenus

[edit] References

• Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)

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[edit] Old English

[edit] Alternative forms

• ǣ

[edit] Etymology

Proto-Germanic *ahwo (“‘waters, river’”) from Proto-Indo-European *akwa- (“‘water’”). Akin to Old Frisian ā, ē, Old Saxon aha, Old High German aha, awa, Gothic ahua, ahwa "river, waters", Icelandic á, Old English īeg "island"

[edit] Noun

ēa f.

1. water
2. running water, river, stream

[edit] Declension

	Singular	Plural
nominative	ēa	ēa, ēan
accusative	ēa	ēa, ēan
genitive	ēa, īe	ēa
dative	ēa, īe	ēa(u)m, ēan

[edit] Descendants

• English: ea

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[edit] Romanian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /je̯a/, SAMPA: /jea/

[edit] Pronoun

ea f. (third-person singular)

1. she (third person, ea refers to a female other)

[edit] Declension

Nominative
ea
Accusative
stressed		unstressed
ea		o
Genitive
ei
Singular		Plural
m. & n.	f.	m.	f. & n.
său	sa	săi	sale
Dative
stressed		unstressed
ei		îi
Reflexive
Accusative		Dative
stressed	unstressed	stressed	unstressed
sine	se	sieşi	îşi

[edit] Synonyms

• dumneaei (polite form)

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[edit] West Frisian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /jε/

[edit] Adverb

ea

1. ever, at any time