eu

See also: Eu, EU, eu-, -eu, .eu, eü, èu, and Appendix:Variations of "eu"

Translingual

Symbol

eu

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Basque.

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Aromanian

Pronoun

eu

1. Alternative form of io

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Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin ovum.

Noun

eu m (plural eus)

1. egg

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Chuukese

Numeral

eu

1. one

Related terms

• eche
• aewin (ordinal)
• efoch
• efou
• emon
• et

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Corsican

Pronoun

eu

1. Alternative form of eiu

References

• “eiu, eo, eu, ghjeu” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

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Drehu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eu/

Adverb

eu

1. when

References

• Template:cite. Cited in: "Dehu" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
• Template:cite. Cited in: "ⁿDe’u" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

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French

Etymology

From Old French eü, from Vulgar Latin *habūtus (see for cognates) (Classical Latin habitus).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: eue, eues, eus, eut, eût, hue, hues, huent, u, us

Participle

eu (feminine eue, masculine plural eus, feminine plural eues)

1. past participle of avoir

Usage notes

• Eu is pronounced /y/, despite the fact that the digraph ‹eu› is regularly pronounced /ø/ or /œ/.

Anagrams

• UE

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Galician

Alternative forms

• ieu, i-eu (after a vowel)

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese eu, from Vulgar Latin eo (attested from the 6th century), from Latin ego. The accusative form is from Old Galician-Portuguese me, from Latin mē. The dative form is possibly in part from Latin mihi, through a Vulgar Latin *mi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈew/, (occasionally) /ˈɛw/, /ˈɪw/, (sandhi) /ˈjew/

• Audio:

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Pronoun

eu (after a preposition min, accusative me, dative me)

1. I
   • 1399, M. González Garcés (ed.), Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media. A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 580:

     Saban todos que yeu Fernan Martinez, Clerigo rector da Yglesia de San Thomas da pescaria da Vila da Cruña

     Everyone know this, that I Fernán Martinez, rector cleric of the church of Saint Tomas, of the Pescaría (fishery) of the Town of A Coruña

See also

• Appendix:Galician pronouns

Further reading

• “eu”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “eu”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “yeu”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “ieu”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

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Japanese

Romanization

eu

1. Rōmaji transcription of えう

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Latin

Etymology

Compare Ancient Greek εὖ (eû, “well”, adverb).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eu̯/, [ɛu̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eu̯/, [ɛːu̯]

Interjection

1. bravo! well done!

See also

• euge
• eugepae
• euhoe
• evax

References

• “eu”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “eu”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Latvian

Interjection

eu

1. Use to draw somebody's attention

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Manx

Pronoun

eu (emphatic form euish)

1. second-person plural/form of ec

   at you/ye

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

eu

1. Alternative form of ewe

Etymology 2

Pronoun

eu

1. (chiefly Early Middle English) Alternative form of yow

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Nias

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kahiw, from Proto-Austronesian *kaSiw.

Noun

eu (mutated form geu)

1. wood

References

• Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 61.

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Old French

Verb

eu

1. past participle of avoir

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Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• ie (before enclitic)
• ieu

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin eo (attested from the 6th century), from Latin ego.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛw/

Pronoun

eu

1. I (first-person singular subject pronoun)

Descendants

• Occitan: jo, ieu

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Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin eo (attested from the 6th century), from Latin ego, from Proto-Italic *egō, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂. Compare Old Leonese you, yo Spanish yo, and Mozarabic yo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛw/

Pronoun

eu

1. I
   • 13th century, Cancioneiro da Ajuda, João Garcia de Guilhade, A 229: Amigos, non poss'eu negar (facsimile)

     [O]s ollos uerdes que eu ui / me façen ora andar aſſi.

     The green eyes which I have seen / have made me now be like this.

Descendants

• Eonavian: eu
• Fala: ei
• Galician: eu
• Portuguese: eu (see there for further descendants)

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Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• giu
• iu

Etymology

See iu.

Pronoun

eu

1. you (accusative)

Declension

Old Saxon personal pronouns

Personal pronouns
Singular	1.	2.	3. m	3. f	3. n
Nominative	ik	thū	hē	siu	it
Accusative	mī, me, mik	thī, thik	ina	sia
Dative	mī	thī	imu	iru	it
Genitive	mīn	thīn	is	ira	is
Dual	1.	2.	-	-	-
Nominative	wit	git	-	-	-
Accusative	unk	ink	-	-	-
Dative
Genitive	unkero, unka	inker, inka	-	-	-
Plural	1.	2.	3. m	3. f	3. n
Nominative	wī, we	gī, ge	sia	sia	siu
Accusative	ūs, unsik	eu, iu, iuu
Dative	ūs		im
Genitive	ūser	euwar, iuwer, iuwar, iuwero, iuwera	iro

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese eu, from Vulgar Latin eo (attested from the 6th century), from Latin ego, from Proto-Italic *egō, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂. Akin to Galician eu, Romanian eu and Sardinian eo. Doublet of ego.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈew/ [ˈeʊ̯]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈew/

• Hyphenation: eu

• Audio:

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Pronoun

eu m or f by sense

1. I (first-person singular personal pronoun)
   • 2005, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 184:

     Eu estava na esperança de encontrá-lo antes do jantar!

     I was hoping to meet you before dinner!

2. (Brazil, nonstandard, highly proscribed) first-person singular prepositional pronoun; me

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:eu.

Derived terms

• euzinho / euzinha (diminutive)

See also

Portuguese personal pronouns (edit)
Number	Person	Nominative (subject)		Accusative (direct object)		Dative (indirect object)	Prepositional		Prepositional with com		Non-declining
		m	f	m	f	m and f	m	f	m	f	m	f
Singular	First	eu		me			mim		comigo
	Second	tu		te			ti		contigo		você
											o senhor	a senhora
	Third	ele	ela	o (lo, no)	a (la, na)	lhe	ele	ela	com ele	com ela	o mesmo	a mesma
				se			si		consigo
Plural	First	nós		nos			nós		connosco (Portugal) conosco (Brazil)		a gente
	Second	vós		vos			vós		convosco, com vós		vocês
											os senhores	as senhoras
	Third	eles	elas	os (los, nos)	as (las, nas)	lhes	eles	elas	com eles	com elas	os mesmos	as mesmas
				se			si		consigo
Indefinite				se			si		consigo

Noun

eu m (plural eus)

1. (chiefly philosophy) ego; self (individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness)

   Synonym: ego

Derived terms

• eu lírico

Related terms

• ego

Interjection

eu!

1. Used to draw attention to oneself after having their name called.

   Dr. Hélio? – Eu!

   Dr. Hélio? – Here!

Descendants

• Barranquian: ê
• Kristang: yo

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Romanian

Alternative forms

• eŭ (old orthography)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin eo (attested from the 6th century), from Latin ego, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂. Akin to Portuguese eu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jew/, /ew/
• IPA^(key): /jo/

• Audio:

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Pronoun

eu

1. (nominative form) I

Declension

Nominative
eu
Accusative
stressed		unstressed
mine		mă
Genitive
Singular		Plural
m & n	f	m	f & n
meu	mea	mei	mele
Dative
stressed		unstressed
mie		îmi
Reflexive
Accusative		Dative
stressed	unstressed	stressed	unstressed
mine	mă	mie	îmi

See also

Romanian personal pronouns

		singular	plural
1st person		eu	noi
2nd person	plain	tu	voi
	semi-polite	dumneata	dumneavoastră
	polite	dumneavoastră
3rd person familiar	m	el	ei
	f	ea	ele
3rd person polite	m	dumnealui	dumnealor
	f	dumneaei

Noun

eu n (plural euri)

1. ego

Declension

Declension of eu

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) eu	eul	(niște) euri	eurile
genitive/dative	(unui) eu	eului	(unor) euri	eurilor
vocative	eule		eurilor

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• jau (Rumantsch Grischun)
• jeu (Sursilvan)
• jou (Sutsilvan)
• ia (Surmiran)
• eau (Puter)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin eo (attested from the 6th century), from Latin ego; akin to Greek εγώ (egó), Sanskrit अहम् (aham), all from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

Pronoun

eu

1. (Vallader) I

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Sassarese

Alternative forms

• éiu

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin eo, from Latin ego, from Proto-Italic *egō, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeu/

Pronoun

eu

1. I (first-person singular personal pronoun)
   • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Primabéra [Springtime]”, in La poesia di l'althri, Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 13:

     guasi guasi credu ¶ chi podaristhia eu puru ¶ o dubaristhia ¶ nascì torra

     I almost believe that I, too, can, or should, be born again.

See also

• me
• meggu
• mi
• méiu

 

References

• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

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Sicilian

Alternative forms

• jeu
• jù, jò, iu (possibly with external influence)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin eo, from Latin ego, from Proto-Italic *egō, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.ʊ/
• Hyphenation: è‧u

Pronoun

eu

1. (first person singular pronoun) I

   Eu sacciu lèggiri 'n sicilianu. ― I can read Sicilian.

Usage notes

• In Sicilian speaking this pronoun can be postponed with respect to verb.
• In some dialects it can also become an emphasizing enclitic particle

  Jù ci parrai-ju

  I talked to him.

Inflection

nominative	eu
prepositional	mìa
accusative	mi
dative	mi
reflexive	mi

See also

• tu
• iḍḍu, iḍḍa
• nui, nuiautri
• vui, vuiautri
• iḍḍi

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Welsh

Alternative forms

• ’u (after vowels)
• ’w (after i)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ei̯/
  • IPA^(key): /iː/, /ɪ/
• Homophone: ei

Usage notes

• Despite being written as u, the vowel here is /i̯/ in North Wales.

Determiner

eu (triggers h-prothesis of a following vowel)

1. their

   Cwynent am eu blinder a’u hafiechyd.

   They complained of their weariness and their illness.

2. them (as the direct object of a verbal noun)

   Fe fu amser pan fyddai drysau trên yn eu hagor i chi.

   There was a time when train doors would be opened for you.

Usage notes

Nhw is often added after the noun.

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Yoruba

Alternative forms

• owú

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ē.ú/

Noun

eú

1. (Ekiti) anvil