eie

• eige (archaic)
• ye, yge (obsolete)

From Dutch eigen, from Middle Dutch eigen, from Old Dutch *eigan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈəi̯.ə/

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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.

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛi̯(ə)/, /ˈiː(ə)/

eie (plural eien)

1. An eye.
   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎, published c. 1410, Apocalips 1:14, page 117v; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     ⁊ þe heed of him ⁊ his heeris weren whiyt as whiyt wolle .· ⁊ as ſnow / ⁊ þe iȝen of him as flawme of fier .·

     And his head and his hairs were white, like white wool or 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.

• English: eye
  • Sranan Tongo: ai
• Scots: ee
• Yola: ieen, eein, eyen, eeen, een, ein (plural)

From Old English eġe.

eie

1. Alternative form of eye

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈæɪə/

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)

• eier (noun)
• statseid

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