эй

See also: еј, ей, and Appendix:Variations of "ei"

Eastern Mari

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian эй (ej).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ej/
• Rhymes: -ej
• Hyphenation: эй

Interjection

эй • (ej)

1. hey!
2. oh!, ah! (expresses surprise, delight, sadness, pain, regret, disappointment, reproach, concern, etc.)

Particle

эй • (ej)

1. emphatic particle

   вараш кодаш огыл манын, эй куржам, эй куржам

   varaš kodaš ogyl manyn, ej kuržam, ej kuržam

   I don't want to be late, I'm off and running

References

• J. Bradley et al. (2023), “эй”, in The Mari Web Project: Mari-English Dictionary, University of Vienna

Erzya

Эй палт.

Etymology

From Proto-Mordvinic *jäj ~ *jäŋ, from Proto-Uralic *jäŋe. Cognates include Moksha эй (ej), Finnish jää, Livonian jeij, Northern Sami jiekŋa, Eastern Mari ий (ij), Hungarian jég.

Noun

эй • (ej)

1. ice

   кельме теке эй ― keľme teke ej ― cold as ice

Declension

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

References

• V. I. Ščankina (2011) Russko-mokšansko-erzjanskij slovarʹ [Russian-Moksha-Erzya Dictionary], Saransk, →ISBN
• Entry #171 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
• Keresztes, László (1986), Geschichte der mordwinischen Konsonantismus II. Etymologisches Belegmaterial‎^[1], Szeged: Studia Uralo-Altaica 26.

Ket

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *eˀʌjʌ (“kill”, infinitive verb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɛj̥˥˩], [ɛj], [ij]

Verb

эй (èj, [s⁴]-[qo²]-ej⁰) (action nominal, vt2 or v4 type verb)

1. killing, the act of killing
2. (transitive, momentane) subject kills (someone or something else)
3. (intransitive, reflexive, momentane) subject kills oneself, subject commits suicide

Usage notes

• In Central and Northern Ket dialects, verb stems эйә and эйи are used respectively instead, all broadly and phonemically analyzed as /èj/.
• The second transitive conjugation (vt2) is used for sense 2, 'kill someone or something', while the fourth intransitive conjugation (v4) is used for sense 3, 'kill oneself'. For example, a simple construction using the second sense and vt2 conjugation type would be дабасей [da⁸-ba⁶-s⁴-ej⁰] ("She kills me."), while a construction using the third sense and v4 conjugation type would be тряй [d⁸-di¹-ej⁰] ("I kill myself.")
• A specific affix for this lemma alone, qo²- (or q²-?), is used in the past tense. A simple conjugation in the non-past tense yields дуссей [di⁸-us⁷-ej⁰] ("I kill."), while a simple conjugation in the past tense yields дусьӄий [di⁸-us⁷-q²-ej⁰] ("I killed.")

Further reading

• Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 226
• Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, pages 164, 484, 686

Moksha

Etymology

From Proto-Mordvinic *jäɣ from Proto-Uralic *jäŋe. Compare Proto-Uralic *jäkšV (“cold or cool”). Cognates include Erzya эй (ej), Finnish jää, Livonian jeij, Northern Sami jiekŋa and Hungarian jég.

Noun

эй • (äj)

1. ice

References

• V. I. Ščankina (2011) Russko-mokšansko-erzjanskij slovarʹ [Russian-Moksha-Erzya Dictionary], Saransk, →ISBN

Nanai

Etymology

From Proto-Tungusic *eri, compare Evenki эр (ər), Manchu ᡝᡵᡝ (ere).

Pronoun

эй (ey)

1. this

Russian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɛj]

Etymology 1

Interjection

эй • (ej)

1. hey! (you, there!)

Descendants

• → Eastern Mari: эй (ej)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English a.

Noun

эй • (ej) n inan (indeclinable)

1. (English letter) A, a