eie

See also: -eie

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch eigen.

Adjective

eie (attributive eie, not comparable)

1. own (belonging to oneself)

   Jy het jou eie pen, jy hoef nie myne te gebruik nie.

   You have your own pen, you needn’t use mine.

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English ēage, from Proto-Germanic *augô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ókʷs.

Alternative forms

• yȝe, ye, yë, yghe, eye, eȝhe, eȝe, eighe, eyghe, eyȝe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛi̯(ə)/, /ˈiː(ə)/

Noun

eie (plural eien)

1. An eye.

   • a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Apocalips 1:14”, in Wycliffe's Bible:

     And the heed of hym and his heeris weren whijt, as whijt wolle, and as snow; and the iȝen of hym as flawme of fier.

     And his head and his hairs were white, as white wool, and like snow, and his eyes were like fire's flame.

     c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Nun's Priest's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 3168-3169:

     So mote I brouke wel myne eyen tweye / Saue ye I herde neuere man so synge.

     So might I have used well my two eyes / But for you, I've heard no man sing like that.

2. (figuratively) A highly valued or regarded object.
3. Vision, knowledge or perception.
4. A hole, spot, or other object resembling an eye.

Descendants

• English: eye
• Scots: ee

Etymology 2

From Old English eġe.

Noun

eie

1. Alternative form of eye

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse eiga. Cognate with Danish eje, Swedish äga, Faroese eiga, Icelandic eiga, and English owe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æɪe/

Verb

eie (imperative ei, present tense eier, passive eies, simple past eide or eiet or åtte, past participle eid or eiet or ått)

1. to own (have rightful possession of)

Derived terms

• eier (noun)
• statseid

References

• “eie”, in: Bjorvand & Lindeman, Våre arveord, rev. ed. Oslo, 2007.
• “eie” in The Bokmål Dictionary.