eu

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See also: Eu, EU, eu-, -eu, .eu, eü, èu, and Appendix:Variations of "eu"

Aromanian[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

eu

  1. Alternative form of io

Bourguignon[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin ovum.

Noun[edit]

eu m (plural eus)

  1. egg

Chuukese[edit]

Numeral[edit]

eu

  1. one

Related terms[edit]

Corsican[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

eu

  1. Alternative form of eiu

References[edit]

Drehu[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Adverb[edit]

eu

  1. when

References[edit]

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old French eü, from Vulgar Latin *habūtus (see for cognates) (Classical Latin habitus).

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

eu m (feminine singular eue, masculine plural eus, feminine plural eues)

  1. past participle of avoir

Usage notes[edit]

  • Eu is pronounced /y/, despite the fact that the digraph ‹eu› is regularly pronounced /ø/ or /œ/.

Anagrams[edit]

Galician[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese eu, from Vulgar Latin *eo which is attested since the 6th century in Romance, from Latin ego. The accusative form is from Old Portuguese me, from Latin mē. The dative form is possibly in part from Latin mihi, through a Vulgar Latin *mi.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈew/, (occasionally) /ˈɛw/, /ˈɪw/, (sandhi) /ˈjew/
  • Audio
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Pronoun[edit]

eu (after a preposition min, accusative me, dative me)

  1. I
    • 1399, M. González Garcés (ed.), Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media. A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 580:
      Saban todos que yeu Fernan Martinez, Clerigo rector da Yglesia de San Thomas da pescaria da Vila da Cruña
      Everyone know this, that I Fernán Martinez, rector cleric of the church of Saint Tomas, of the Pescaría (fishery) of the Town of A Coruña

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  • “eu” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2012.
  • “yeu” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2016.
  • “eu” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  1. ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1983–1991), “yo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN

Japanese[edit]

Romanization[edit]

eu

  1. Rōmaji transcription of えう

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Compare Ancient Greek εὖ (eû, “well”, adverb).

Pronunciation[edit]

Interjection[edit]

eu

  1. bravo! well done!

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  • eu in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • eu in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Latvian[edit]

Interjection[edit]

eu

  1. Use to draw somebody's attention

Manx[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

eu (emphatic form euish)

  1. second-person plural/form of ec
    at you/ye

Middle English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Noun[edit]

eu

  1. Alternative form of ewe

Etymology 2[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

eu

  1. (chiefly Early Middle English) Alternative form of yow

Nias[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kahiw, from Proto-Austronesian *kaSiw.

Noun[edit]

eu (mutated form geu)

  1. wood

References[edit]

  • Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 61.

Old French[edit]

Verb[edit]

eu

  1. past participle of avoir

Old Occitan[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Vulgar Latin *eo, attested from the 6th century in Romance, from Latin ego.

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

eu

  1. I (first-person singular subject pronoun)

Descendants[edit]

  • Occitan: jo, ieu

Old Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Vulgar Latin *eo, attested from the 6th century in Romance, from Latin ego, from Proto-Italic *egō, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂. Compare Old Leonese you, yo Spanish yo, and Mozarabic yo.

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

eu

  1. I

Descendants[edit]

  • Eonavian: eu
  • Fala: ei
  • Galician: eu
  • Portuguese: eu (see there for further descendants)

Old Saxon[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

See iu.

Pronoun[edit]

eu

  1. you (accusative)

Declension[edit]

Old Saxon personal pronouns
Personal pronouns
Singular 1. 2. 3. m 3. f 3. n
Nominative ik thū hē siu it
Accusative mī, me, mik thī, thik ina sia
Dative mī thī imu iru it
Genitive mīn thīn is ira is
Dual 1. 2. - - -
Nominative wit git - - -
Accusative unk ink - - -
Dative
Genitive unkero - - -
Plural 1. 2. 3. m 3. f 3. n
Nominative wī, we gī, ge sia sia siu
Accusative ūs, unsik eu, iu, iuu
Dative ūs im
Genitive ūser euwar, iuwer, iuwar, iuwero, iuwera iro

Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Portuguese eu, from Vulgar Latin *eo, attested from the 6th century in Romance, from Latin ego, from Proto-Italic *egō, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂. Akin to Galician eu, Romanian eu and Sardinian eo. Doublet of ego.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Hyphenation: eu
  • Audio
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Pronoun[edit]

eu m or f

  1. I (first-person singular personal pronoun)
  2. (Brazil, nonstandard, highly proscribed) first-person singular prepositional pronoun; me

Quotations[edit]

For quotations using this term, see Citations:eu.

Derived terms[edit]

See also[edit]

Portuguese personal pronouns (edit)
Number Person Nominative
(subject) 		Accusative
(direct object) 		Dative
(indirect object) 		Prepositional Prepositional
with com 		Non-declining
m f m f m and f m f m f m f
Singular First eu me mim comigo
Second tu te ti contigo você
o senhor a senhora
Third ele ela o
(lo, no) 		a
(la, na) 		lhe ele ela com ele com ela o mesmo a mesma
se si consigo
Plural First nós nos nós connosco (Portugal)
conosco (Brazil) 		a gente
Second vós vos vós convosco, com vós vocês
os senhores as senhoras
Third eles elas os
(los, nos) 		as
(las, nas) 		lhes eles elas com eles com elas os mesmos as mesmas
se si consigo
Indefinite se si consigo

Noun[edit]

eu m (plural eus)

  1. (chiefly philosophy) ego; self (individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness)
    Synonym: ego

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

Interjection[edit]

eu!

  1. Used to draw attention to oneself after having their name called.
    Dr. Hélio? – Eu!
    Dr. Hélio? – Here!

Descendants[edit]

  • Barranquian: ê
  • Kristang: yo

Romanian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • eŭ (old orthography)

Etymology[edit]

From Vulgar Latin *eo, attested from the 6th century in Romance, from Latin ego, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂. Akin to Portuguese eu.

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

eu

  1. (nominative form) I

Declension[edit]

Nominative
eu
Accusative
stressed unstressed
mine mă
Genitive
Singular Plural
m & n f m f & n
meu mea mei mele
Dative
stressed unstressed
mie îmi
Reflexive
Accusative Dative
stressed unstressed stressed unstressed
mine mă mie îmi

See also[edit]

Romanian personal pronouns
singular plural
1st person eu noi
2nd person plain tu voi
semi-polite dumneata dumneavoastră
polite dumneavoastră
3rd person
familiar 		m el ei
f ea ele
3rd person
polite 		m dumnealui dumnealor
f dumneaei

Noun[edit]

eu n (plural euri)

  1. ego

Declension[edit]

Declension of eu
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) eu eul (niște) euri eurile
genitive/dative (unui) eu eului (unor) euri eurilor
vocative eule eurilor

Romansch[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • jau (Rumantsch Grischun)
  • jeu (Sursilvan)
  • jou (Sutsilvan)
  • ia (Surmiran)
  • eau (Puter)

Etymology[edit]

From Vulgar Latin *eo, attested from the 6th century in Romance, from Latin ego; akin to Greek εγώ (egó), Sanskrit अहम् (aham), all from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

Pronoun[edit]

eu

  1. (Vallader) I

Sassarese[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Vulgar Latin *eo, from Latin ego, from Proto-Italic *egō, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

eu

  1. I (first-person singular personal pronoun)
    • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Primabéra [Springtime]”, in La poesia di l'althri, Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 13:
      guasi guasi credu ¶ chi podaristhia eu puru ¶ o dubaristhia ¶ nascì torra
      I almost believe that I, too, can, or should, be born again.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  • Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

Welsh[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Usage notes[edit]

  • Despite being written as u, the vowel here is /i̯/ in north Wales.

Determiner[edit]

eu (triggers h-prothesis of a following vowel)

  1. their
    Cwynent am eu blinder a’u hafiechyd.
    They complained of their weariness and their illness.
  2. them (as the direct object of a verbal noun)
    Fe fu amser pan fyddai drysau trên yn eu hagor i chi.
    There was a time when train doors would be opened for you.

Usage notes[edit]

Nhw is often added after the noun.

Yoruba[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

eú

  1. (Ekiti) anvil
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