ė
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "e"
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Translingual
Symbol
ė
- (UPA) A close e vowel.
English
Symbol
ė
- (lexicography) Indicates the HAPPY vowel (final vowel of happy).
- (lexicography, dated) An element of the digraph ⟨ėr⟩, indicating the NURSE vowel.
Synonyms
Cheyenne
Pronunciation
Letter
ė (upper case Ė)
- A letter of the Cheyenne alphabet, written in the Latin script.
Lithuanian
Etymology
Coined by Daniel Klein in 1653 for Grammatica Litvanica.
Pronunciation
Letter
ė (upper case Ė)
- The ninth letter of the Lithuanian alphabet, called ė and written in the Latin script.
See also
Lower Sorbian
Letter
ė (upper case Ė)
See also
Samogitian
Etymology 1
Letter
ė (upper case Ė)
- The ninth letter of the Samogitian alphabet, called ė̄ and written in the Latin script.
See also
Etymology 2
Compare Lithuanian ir.
Alternative forms
Conjunction
ė
- and
- Petnīčė īr dėina nedielie terp ketverga ė sobatas.
- Friday is the day of the week between Thursday and Saturday.
Slovene
Etymology 1
Letter e with dot above (◌̇) to signify a lot more close vowel.
Pronunciation
Symbol
ė
- (dialectal transcription) Phonetic transcription of tense sound between [e] and [i].
Usage notes
Although by the description, the corresponding IPA representation should be approximately [ɪ͈], no equivalent IPA representation is given in the source.
Etymology 2
Letter e with dot above (◌̇) to signify an extra short vowel.
Pronunciation
Letter
ė (lower case, usually not in upper case)
- (Natisone Valley dialect) Additional letter, used in some words to denote the extra-short stress on e.
See also
References
- Kenda-Jež, Karmen (2017 February 27) Fonetična trankripcija [Phonetic transcription] (in Slovene), Znanstvenoraziskovalni center SAZU, Inštitut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša, archived from the original on January 22, 2022, pages 27–30
- Špehonja, Nino (2012) Nediška gramatika (in Italian), Poligrafice San Marco
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