ee

ee

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Ewe.

• Rhymes: -iː

ee (plural een)

1. (Scotland, Northern England and archaic) An eye.
   • 1815, Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering:

     […] and he never took his ee aff them, or said another word […]

• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN

ee

1. (Northern England) eh
   • 1975, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, The Werewolf and the Vampire

     Father advanced with outstretched hand and announced in a loud, very hearty voice: "Ee, I'm pleased to meet ye, lad. […]

   • 2008, Mavis Crawley, The Rolling Stone: Based on the True Story of My Life:

     'Ee by gum lass we've seen nought of thee this many a long year, thou's a sight for sore eyes,' he said planting a kiss firmly on Mum's cheek...

ee (plural ees)

1. (chemistry) Enantiomeric excess.

ee (plural ees)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter E.
   • 1773, The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged, October

     The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch.

   • 2004 Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, p. 170

     I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time.

   • 2016 CCEB, Communications Instructions Radiotelephone Procedures: ACP125 (G), p. 3-5

     ETA [is spoken] as "ee-tee-ay" instead of "I SPELL Echo Tango Alfa".

• e

èe

1. yes

From Middle Dutch êe, from Old Dutch ēwa, from Proto-West Germanic *aiw.

• IPA^(key): /eː/
• Hyphenation: ee
• Rhymes: -eː

ee f (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) a law or rule
2. (obsolete) the bond of marriage

• eegade, eega, eegemaal, echt, eeuw, ieder, ooit

ee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter E.

From Latin ē.

• IPA^(key): /ˈeː/, [ˈe̞ː]
• Rhymes: -eː
• Syllabification^(key): ee

ee

1. The name of the Latin-script letter E.

• IPA^(key): /e.e/

ee

1. yes

• IPA^(key): /iː/

From Old Irish í.

ee (emphatic eeish or ish)

1. she

   As ta'n chooid share jeh nagh vel ee ny ben Vanninagh.

   The beauty of it is that she is not Manx.

   Ben vie thie ee.

   She is a good housekeeper.

   Cha dooar ee eh.

   She didn't find it.

   Cha nel ee agh ny lhiannoo.

   She is but a child.

   Er leshyn dy row ee nane jeh e chaarjyn.

   He counted her among his friends.

2. her

   Hug eh fo obbeeys ee.

   He bewitched her.

   Ren eh smeidey stiagh ee.

   He beckoned her in.

3. it (referring to a feminine noun)

   Cha jargym fakin ee.

   I can't see it.

From Old Irish ithid, from Proto-Celtic *ɸiteti, from Proto-Indo-European *peyt-.

ee (past dee, future independent eeee, verbal noun ee, present participle gee, past participle eeit)

1. to eat, consume, feed

ee

1. Alternative form of æ

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• IPA^(key): /ee/

ee (modal, Perso-Arabic spelling اے)

1. Utterance final question clitic

• aa (Biori)

• Liljegren, Henrik; Haider, Naseem (2011) Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎, Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

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

• IPA^(key): /ee/

ee (conjunction, Perso-Arabic spelling اے)

1. Conjoining marker cliticized to the first constituent

• Liljegren, Henrik; Haider, Naseem (2011) Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎, Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

From (Anglian) Old English ēġe.

ee (plural een)

1. eye
   • 1789, Robert Burns, Willie Brew'd A Peck O' Maut:

     We are na fou, we're nae that fou, / But just a drappie in our ee (We are not full, we're not that full, / but just a drop (of liquor) in our eye.);

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

From Old English ġē.

ee (personal, non-emphatic)

1. (South Scots) you

ee

1. Shetland form of ae (“one”)

• ye
• yow
• yow yins

• “ee, adj.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

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ee

1. o; oh

From Proto-Mixtec *ɨ́ɨ̨́.

ee

1. one

From Proto-Mixtec *ɨ̀ɨ̨̀.

ee

1. nine

• Alvarado, Francisco de (1593) Vocabulario en lengua misteca (in Spanish), Mexico: En casa de Pedro Balli, page 203v

• IPA^(key): /ˈe.ɪ/

ee

1. yes

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

ee

1. water (clear liquid H₂O)

ee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter E.

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

ee

1. Alternative form of i (“in”)
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4:

     Zitch vaperreen, an shimmereen, fan ee-daff ee aar scoth!

     Such vapouring and glittering when stript in their shirts!

ee

1. Alternative form of a (“the”)

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 37 & 84