Definitions and meaning of ea
ea
Etymology 1
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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈiː(ə)/
- Rhymes: -iː, -iːə
Noun
ea (plural eas)
- (dialectal) A river or watercourse.
Derived terms
Related terms
Etymology 2
Abbreviation.
Determiner
ea
- Alternative form of ea.
References
- “ea”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Anagrams
- -ae, -æ, A & E, A&E, AE, a**e, a.e., ae, æ
Aiwoo
Adjective
ea
- bad, evil
References
- Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
Aromanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin illa, feminine of ille. Compare Romanian ea.
Pronoun
ea f (plural eali)
- (third-person feminine singular pronoun, nominative form) she
Synonyms
Pronoun
ea f
- (long/stressed accusative form) her
Related terms
- 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
- 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)
Estonian
Noun
ea
- genitive singular of iga
Hawaiian
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian *eqa.
Pronunciation
Noun
ea
- sovereignty, rule
- air, breath, gas, vapor
- life, life force
Verb
ea
- (intransitive) to rise, go up
- (intransitive) to smell
References
- “ea” in the Hawaiian Dictionary, Revised and Enlarged Edition, University of Hawaii Press, 1986
Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish ed (“it”). Ultimately akin to English it, Latin id, etc.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
ea
- it
Usage notes
- Only used with the copula, in constructions that do not reference any noun.
Derived terms
Korean
Alternative forms
- 개 (gae), and other unitary bound nouns (권, 자루, 켤레, etc)
Etymology
From English ea. (“whole piece”)
Symbol
ea
- symbol of 개 (gae, “item, piece, general counter for objects”).
- 총 10ea.
- 5ea 정도.
Latin
Etymology 1
Inflected forms.
Pronunciation
- ea: (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈe.a/, [ˈeä]
- ea: (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈe.a/, [ˈɛːä]
- eā: (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈe.aː/, [ˈeäː]
- eā: (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈe.a/, [ˈɛːä]
Pronoun
ea
- nominative feminine singular of is: "she", "it" (referring to feminine nouns), or demonstratively (as a demonstrative pronoun) "this", "that" (likewise referring to feminine nouns)
- nominative neuter plural of is: "they (things)"
- accusative neuter plural of is: "them (things)"
Pronoun
eā f
- ablative feminine singular of is
See also
Etymology 2
Declined from is. It stands as if for eā viā ("this/that way"). Compare eō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈe.aː/, [ˈeäː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈe.a/, [ˈɛːä]
Adverb
eā (not comparable)
- there
- that way
- on that side
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- 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.
- Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)
Lindu
Adjective
ea
- shy; ashamed
Middle English
Noun
ea
- Alternative form of æ
Old English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *ahu, from Proto-Germanic *ahwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂ (“water”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ēa f (nominative plural ēa or ēan)
- river
- running water, stream
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: æ, e, ea, ee, eo
- English: ea, Eau, eau, yeo
- edēa (ed-)
See also
- gārseċġ (“ocean”)
- mere (“lake”)
- sǣ (“sea”)
- strēam (“stream”)
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin illa, feminine of ille.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ja/
- Rhymes: -a
Pronoun
ea f (third-person singular, plural ele, masculine equivalent el)
- (nominative form) she
Declension
Synonyms
Pronoun
ea f (stressed accusative form of ea)
- (direct object, preceded by preposition, such as "pe", "cu", "la", or "pentru") her
Related terms
- el (third-person masculine singular)
- ei (third-person masculine plural)
- ele (third-person feminine plural)
See also
Romansch
Alternative forms
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) gea
- (Sursilvan) gie
- (Puter, Vallader) schi
Adverb
ea
- (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) yes (used to indicate agreement with a positive statement)
Related terms
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader) bain
- (Sursilvan) bein
- (Sutsilvan) bagn
- (Surmiran) gea bagn
- (Puter, Vallader) bainschi, hei, bainschi hei
- (Vallader) hai, bainschi hai
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin ēia.
Pronunciation
Interjection
¡ea!
- come on!, come now! (expressing encouragement)
- so, and so, now (expressing resolution, preceding a willful resolution)
Further reading
- “ea” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
West Frisian
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Adverb
ea
- (literary) ever, at any time
Further reading
- “ea”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Source: wiktionary.org- (dialect) a river.
(source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)