ebba

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *abjǭ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeb.bɑ/
• Rhymes: -eb.bɑ

Noun

ebba m

1. an ebb, receding of water

Declension

Weak:

	singular	plural
nominative	ebba	ebban
accusative	ebban	ebban
genitive	ebban	ebbena
dative	ebban	ebbum

Descendants

• Middle English: ebbe, eb
  • English: ebb
  • Scots: ebb

References

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “ebba”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Onions, C[harles] T., Friedrichsen, G. W. S., and Burchfield, R[obert] W., editors (1966), “ebb”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology‎^[1], Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 299; reprinted 1994.

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• ègua (Campidanese)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin equa, feminine form of equus (“horse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈebba/

Noun

ebba f (plural ebbas) (Limba Sarda Comuna)

1. mare (female horse)

Descendants

• → Catalan: eba

Further reading

• “ebba”, in Ditzionàriu in línia de sa limba e de sa cultura sarda [Online Dictionary of the Sardinian Language and Culture] (in Sardinian, Italian, and English), Autonomous Region of Sardinia [Sardinian: Regione Autonoma della Sardegna]

Swedish

Etymology

ebb +‎ -a

Verb

ebba (present ebbar, preterite ebbade, supine ebbat, imperative ebba)

1. only used in ebba ut

Conjugation

Conjugation of ebba (weak)

	active		passive
infinitive	ebba		—
supine	ebbat		—
imperative	ebba		—
imper. plural1	ebben		—
	present	past	present	past
indicative	ebbar	ebbade	—	—
ind. plural1	ebba	ebbade	—	—
subjunctive2	ebbe	ebbade	—	—
present participle		ebbande
past participle		—

¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Further reading

• “ebba”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “ebba ut”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)