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See also: Appendix:Variations of "ei"

Bulgarian

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Etymology

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Onomatopoeic. Compare English hey, Polish hej, Serbo-Croatian ej.

Pronunciation

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IPA(key): [ɛj]

  • Audio:(file)

Interjection

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ей • (ej)

  1. hey! (interjection to get someone's attention)

Kamassian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Samoyedic *e-, from Proto-Uralic *e-.

Adverb

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ей (ej)

  1. no
  2. not

References

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  • Donner, Kai R. (1944), “ei̯”, in Kamassisches Wörterbuch nebst Sprachproben und Hauptzügen der Grammatik‎[1], Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura

Ket

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *ej ~ *aj (“tongue”).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ей (ēj) f or n (plural эй)

  1. tongue (organ)
Usage notes
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  • Central Ket varieties use ээй (èːj) and ээйә (èːjə), while Northern Ket varieties use ээи (èːji) instead. ее

Etymology 2

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Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *ej (“pine tree”).[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ей (ēj) m (plural эʼнь)

  1. pine tree

Etymology 3

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Inherited from Proto-Ketic *eje (“island”).[3]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ей (ēj) n (plural эеӈ)

  1. island
Usage notes
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  • Central and Northern Ket varieties use ее (ēje) instead.

References

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  1. ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 269
  2. ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 269
  3. ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 270

Further reading

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  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 272
  • Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, pages 163-164

Russian

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Alternative forms

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  • ней (nej) — when used after a preposition
  • е́ю (jéju), не́ю (néju) — dated, poetic or dialectal

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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ей • (jej)

  1. dative/instrumental of она́ (oná)
    • 1867, Иван Тургенев [Ivan Turgenev], “XXV”, in Дым; English translation from Constance Garnett, transl., Smoke, 1896:
      «Э́того нельзя́ так оста́вить, — воскли́кнул он наконе́ц, — я не позво́лю ей так безжа́лостно игра́ть мое́ю жи́знию…»
      «Étovo nelʹzjá tak ostávitʹ, — vosklíknul on nakonéc, — ja ne pozvólju jej tak bezžálostno igrátʹ mojéju žízniju…»
      'She can't let it go like that,' he cried at last, 'I won't allow her to play with my life so mercilessly.'
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