ea

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See also: Ea, EA, êa, eâ, ea., -ea, E/A, éa-, and ę-ą

English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English ea, e, æ, from Old English ēa (“river”), from Proto-West Germanic *ahu (“waters, river”), from Proto-Germanic *ahwō (“waters, river”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂ (“water, flowing water”). Doublet of aqua.

Cognates:

Cognate with North Frisian ia (“river”), Saterland Frisian Äi (“river”), West Frisian ie (“water, stream”), Dutch a (“water, stream”), German Ache (“water, stream, river, flood”), Danish å (“stream, creek”), Swedish å (“stream, creek”), Icelandic á (“stream, river”), Latin aqua (“water”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ea (plural eas)

  1. (UK dialect or archaic) A river or watercourse.
    • 1866, Charles Kingsley, Hereward the Wake: Last of the English:
      And they rowed away for Crowland, by many a mere and many an ea; through narrow reaches of clear brown glassy water; between the dark-green alders; between the pale-green reeds; where the coot clanked, and the bittern boomed, and the sedge-bird, not content with its own sweet song, mocked the song of all the birds around; and then out into the broad lagoons, where hung motionless, high overhead, hawk beyond hawk, buzzard beyond buzzard, kite beyond kite, as far as eye could see.
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Etymology 2[edit]

Abbreviation.

Determiner[edit]

ea

  1. Alternative form of ea.

References[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Aiwoo[edit]

Adjective[edit]

ea

  1. bad, evil

References[edit]

Aromanian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin illa, feminine of ille. Compare Romanian ea.

Pronoun[edit]

ea f (plural eali)

  1. (third-person feminine singular pronoun, nominative form) she

Synonyms[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

ea f

  1. (long/stressed accusative form) her

Related terms[edit]

  • el/elu (masculine equivalent (third-person singular nominative))
  • eali (feminine plural), elj (masculine or mixed plural)
  • u (feminine singular accusative- short/unstressed form)
  • (a) ljei (feminine singular genitive and feminine singular dative- long/stressed form)
  • ãlj/ilj/lji (feminine singular dative- short/unstressed form)

See also[edit]

  • io/iou, mini (first-person singular)
  • tu, tini (second-person singular)
  • noi (first-person plural)
  • voi (second-person plural)
  • nãsh, elj (third-person (masculine or mixed) plural)

Basque[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Particle[edit]

ea

  1. Used in indirect questions as an intensifier.
    Ea nork egin dituen etxeko lanak. ― Let's see who has done the homework.
  2. Used to express one's desire; I hope, I wish
    Ea azkar sendatzen zaren. ― I hope you get well soon.

Usage notes[edit]

When using this particle, the verb takes the conjunction -n.

Further reading[edit]

  • "ea" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
  • “ea” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus

Estonian[edit]

Noun[edit]

ea

  1. genitive singular of iga

Hawaiian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Polynesian *eqa.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ea

  1. sovereignty, rule
  2. air, breath, gas, vapor
  3. life, life force

Verb[edit]

ea

  1. (intransitive) to rise, go up
  2. (intransitive) to smell

References[edit]

  • Pukui, Mary Kawena; Elbert (1986), “ea”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press

Irish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Irish ed (“it”). Ultimately akin to English it, Latin id, etc.

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

ea

  1. it

Usage notes[edit]

  • Only used with the copula, in constructions that do not reference any noun.

Derived terms[edit]

See also[edit]

Irish personal pronouns
Number Person (and gender) Conjunctive
(emphatic) 		Disjunctive
(emphatic) 		Possessive
determiner
Singular First mé
(mise) 		mo L
m' before vowel sounds
Second tú
(tusa)1 		thú
(thusa) 		do L
d' before vowel sounds
Third masculine sé
(seisean) 		é
(eisean) 		a L
Third feminine sí
(sise) 		í
(ise) 		a H
Third neuter — ea —
Plural First muid, sinn
(muidne, muide), (sinne) 		ár E
Second sibh
(sibhse)1 		bhur E
Third siad
(siadsan) 		iad
(iadsan) 		a E

L Triggers lenition E Triggers eclipsis H Triggers h-prothesis

1 Also used as the vocative

The reflexive is formed by adding féin to the relevant pronoun: e.g. "myself" = mé féin, "yourselves" = sibh féin.

Korean[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English ea. (“whole piece”).

Symbol[edit]

ea

  1. symbol of 개 (gae, “item, piece, general counter for objects”).
    총 10ea.
    5ea 정도.

Latin[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Inflected forms.

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

ea

  1. nominative feminine singular of is: "she", "it" (referring to feminine nouns), or demonstratively (as a demonstrative pronoun) "this", "that" (likewise referring to feminine nouns)
  2. nominative neuter plural of is: "they (things)"
  3. accusative neuter plural of is: "them (things)"

Pronoun[edit]

eā f

  1. ablative feminine singular of is

See also[edit]

Latin personal pronouns together with the possessive and reflexive pronouns
Number Person Gender Nominative Genitive Dative Accusative Ablative Possessive
Singular First — ego meī mihi mē meus, -a, -um
Second — tū tuī tibi tē tuus, -a, -um
Reflexive third — — suī sibi sē, sēsē suus, -a, -um
Third Masculine is eius eī eum eō eius
Feminine ea eam eā
Neuter id id eō
Plural First — nōs nostrī, nostrum nōbīs nōs nōbīs noster, -tra,
-trum
Second — vōs vestrī, vestrum vōbīs vōs vōbīs vester, -tra,
-trum
Reflexive third — — suī sibi sē, sēsē suus, -a, -um
Third Masculine eī, iī eōrum eīs eōs eīs eōrum
Feminine eae eārum eās eārum
Neuter ea eōrum ea eōrum

Etymology 2[edit]

Declined from is. It stands as if for eā viā ("this/that way"). Compare eō.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adverb[edit]

eā (not comparable)

  1. there
  2. that way
  3. on that side
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Latin correlatives (edit)
type interrogative indefinite (medial)
demonstrative		 proximal
demonstrative		 distal
demonstrative		 relative indefinite
relative		 identity other
basic quis, quī quis, quī, quīdam, aliquis, aliquī, quisque, quisquam, aliquisquam, quispiam, ūllus is, iste, istic hic ille, illic quī quisquis, quīcumque ipse, īdem alter, alius
dual uter alteruter, uterque uter utercumque
number quot aliquot tot quot quotquot, quotcumque totidem
order quotus totus quotus quotuscumque
quantity quam aliquam tam quam †quamquam †tamen, †tandem
size quantus aliquantus tantus quantus quantuscumque tantusdem
quality quālis aliquālis tālis quālis quālis, quāliscumque
manner ut, quī, quō modō, quōmodo, quemadmodum utique, quī, quōdam modō, aliquō modō ita, sic, eō/istō modō hōc modō illō modō ut, quī, quō modō, quōmodo, quemadmodum utut, utcumque, quōmodocumque item, itidem aliter, aliōquī, alterō/aliō modō
method,
path,
place 		quā aliquā, quāque eā, istāc hāc illāc quā quāquā, quācumque eādem aliā
place ubi alicubi, ubique, usquam, uspiam ibi, istic hīc illīc ubi ubiubi, ubicumque ibidem alibī, aliās
source unde alicunde, undeunde inde, istinc hinc illinc unde undecumque indidem aliunde
destination quō, quōrsum aliquō, quōquam, quōpiam, °aliquōvorsum eō, istūc, °istōrsum hūc, °hōrsum illūc, °illōrsum quō quōquō, quōcumque eōdem aliō, aliorsum
time quandō quondam, aliquandō, quandōque, umquam tum, tunc num, nunc ōlim cum, quandō cumque, quandōcumque, quandōque simul aliās
exact time quota hōra ea/ista hōra hac hōra illa hōra quota hōra quotacumque hōra eadem hōra altera/alia hōra
repetition quotiēns aliquotiēns totiēns quotiēns quotiēnscumque
multiplication quotuplex totuplex quotuplex
† Turned conjunction with original meaning somewhat dissimulated
° Rare

References[edit]

  • “ea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the vegetable kingdom: ea, quae terra gignit
    • the vegetable kingdom: ea, quae e terra gignuntur
    • the vegetable kingdom: ea, quae a terra stirpibus continentur
    • the vegetable kingdom: ea quorum stirpes terra continentur (N. D. 2. 10. 26)
    • eastern, western Germany: Germania quae or Germaniae ea pars quae, ad orientem, occidentem vergit
    • to be of such and such an age: ea aetate, id aetatis esse
    • this is our natural tendency, our destiny; nature compels us: ita (ea lege, ea condicione) nati sumus
    • all depends on this; this is the decisive point: in ea re omnia vertuntur
    • with the intention of..: eo consilio, ea mente, ut
    • on condition of..: ea lege, ut
    • what is your opinion: quid de ea re fieri placet?
    • (ambiguous) I blame this in you; I censure you for this: hoc in te reprehendo (not ob eam rem)
    • (ambiguous) to happen to think of..: in eam cogitationem incidere
    • (ambiguous) to induce a person to think that..: aliquem ad eam cogitationem adducere ut
    • (ambiguous) to discuss a subject more fully on the same lines: plura in eam sententiam disputare
    • (ambiguous) peace is concluded on condition that..: pax convenit in eam condicionem, ut...
  • Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)

Lindu[edit]

Adjective[edit]

ea

  1. shy; ashamed

Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

ea

  1. Alternative form of æ

Old English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-West Germanic *ahu, from Proto-Germanic *ahwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂ (“water”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ēa f (nominative plural ēa or ēan)

  1. river
  2. running water, stream

Declension[edit]

Declension of ea
Case Singular Plural
nominative ēa ēa, ēan
accusative ēa ēa, ēan
genitive ēa, īe ēa
dative ēa, īe ēam, ēaum

Descendants[edit]

  • Middle English: æ, e, ea, ee, eo
    • English: ea, Eau, eau, yeo
  • edēa (ed-)

See also[edit]

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Latin illa, feminine of ille.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ja/, (hypercorrect) /e̯a/
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Audio(file)

Pronoun[edit]

ea f (third-person singular, plural ele, masculine equivalent el)

  1. (nominative form) she
    Synonym: (polite form) dumneaei

Declension[edit]

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 sieși își

Pronoun[edit]

ea f (stressed accusative form of ea)

  1. (direct object, preceded by preposition, such as "pe", "cu", "la", or "pentru") her

Related terms[edit]

  • el (third-person masculine singular)
  • ei (third-person masculine plural)
  • ele (third-person feminine plural)

See also[edit]

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

References[edit]

Romansch[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • gea (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)
  • gie (Sursilvan)
  • schi (Puter, Vallader)

Adverb[edit]

ea

  1. (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) yes (used to indicate agreement with a positive statement)

Related terms[edit]

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin ēia.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈea/ [ˈe.a]
  • Rhymes: -ea
  • Syllabification: e‧a

Interjection[edit]

¡ea!

  1. come on!, come now! (expressing encouragement)
  2. so, and so, now (expressing resolution, preceding a willful resolution)

Further reading[edit]

West Frisian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation[edit]

Adverb[edit]

ea

  1. (literary) ever, at any time

Further reading[edit]

  • “ea”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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