esan

See also: Esan and ẹsan

Basque

Etymology

Unknown, the variant erran seems to point to an original form with an alien cluster with two different outcomes such as *esran.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /es̺an/, [e̞.s̺ãn]

Verb

esan du/dio (present participle esaten, future participle esango, short form esan, verbal noun esate)

  1. to say, tell
    Synonym: erran

Usage notes

The synthetic conjugation is entirely unrelated etymologically to the non-finite forms. Instead, it uses a stem -io- to conjugate synthetically. However, some of the synthetic forms are archaic, so more often periphrastic will be used instead. For example, instead of

  • Zer ziotsun? ― What did he/she tell you?

the periphrastic form

  • Zer esan zizun? ― What did he/she tell you?

is more commonly used.

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Nupe
Esan

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ē.sã̄/

Noun

esan

  1. salt
    A lá esan kún. ― They have sold the salt.
Derived terms
  • èdùkósan (“ocean”)
  • èdùsan (“ocean, sea”)

Etymology 2
Ègwa na ta èsán o na.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /è.sã́/

Noun

èsán (plural èsánzhì)

  1. bird's nest

Romansch

Alternative forms
  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) asen
  • (Surmiran, Vallader) asan

Etymology

From Latin asinus.

Noun

esan m (plural esans)

  1. (Puter) (male) donkey, ass

Coordinate terms

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish ésom. Cognates include Irish eisean and Manx eshyn.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɛs̪ən̪ˠ/

Pronoun

esan

  1. (emphatic) he, him, it

See also
Scottish Gaelic personal pronouns
simple emphatic
singular plural singular plural
First person mi sinn mise sinne
Second person thu, tu1) sibh thusa, tusa1) sibhse
Third person m e iad esan iadsan
Third person f i ise
*) sibh and sibhse also act as the polite singular pronouns.
**) To mark a direct object of a verbal noun, the derivatives of gam are used.
1) used when following a verb ending in -n, -s or -dh.
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