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From Middle English ee, ea, 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”). Compare English 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”).

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.

Abbreviation.

ea

  1. Alternative form of ea..

ea

  1. bad, evil

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

ea f (plural eali)

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

ea f

  1. (long/stressed accusative form) her
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • IPA(key): /ea/ [e.a]
  • Rhymes: -ea, -a
  • Hyphenation: e‧a

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.
  • When using this particle, the verb takes the conjunction -n.
  • “ea”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
  • “ea”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

ea

  1. genitive singular of iga

From Proto-Polynesian *eqa (“come to the surface”).

ea

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

ea(intransitive)

  1. to rise, to go up
  2. to smell
  • aea (“rise up”, verb)
  • eaea (“reduplicated form”)
  • eʻea (partially reduplicated form)
  • hōʻea (causative)
  • maea (“rise to the surface”)

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

ea

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

From English ea. (“whole piece”).

ea • (ea)

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

    From Proto-Indo-European *íh₂.

    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)"

    eā f

    1. ablative feminine singular of is

    First-declension noun.

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

    eā (not comparable)

    1. there
    2. that way
    3. on that side
    • “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)

    ea

    1. shy; ashamed

    ea

    1. (Early Middle English) alternative form of ee

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

    ēa f (nominative plural ēa or ēan)

    1. river
      • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

        Þonne west fram Tigris þǣre ēa oþ Eufrate þā ēa, þonne betweox þǣm ēan syndon þās land Babylonia, and Caldea, and Mesopotamia.

        Then west from the River Tigris to the River Euphrates, then between the rivers are the lands of Babylon, Chaldea, and Mesopotamia
    2. running water, stream
    • Regarding declension, ēa is usually indeclinable, but occasionally inflected forms are encountered.

    Uncertain. Perhaps from earlier *eah, *æh, from Proto-West Germanic *a, *ah (“ah”), related to Old High German a, ah (“ah”). Alternatively from Proto-West Germanic *au, cognate with Old High German au, ō (“oh, ah”).

    ēa

    1. oh, alas
    • >? Middle English: a, aa, ah
      • English: ah
      • Scots: ah

    Inherited from Latin illa, feminine of ille.

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

    1. (nominative form) she
      Synonym: (polite form) dumneaei
    Declension of ea
    stressed unstressed
    nominative ea
    accusative ea o
    dative ei îi
    genitive ei
    possessive forms
    singular plural
    masculine său săi
    neuter sale
    feminine sa
    reflexive forms
    stressed unstressed
    accusative sine se
    dative sieși își

    ea f (stressed accusative form of ea)

    1. (direct object, preceded by preposition, such as "pe", "cu", "la", or "pentru") her
    • el (third-person masculine singular)
    • ei (third-person masculine plural)
    • ele (third-person feminine plural)

    ea

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

    From Latin ēia.

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

    ¡ea!

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

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

    ea

    1. (literary) ever, at any time
    • “ea”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011