én

én

1. Alternative form of en

én

1. Alternative form of en

Accent is optional, and reflects intonation. Compare, for example, hun har kun en kat "she only has a cat" with hun har kun én kat "she has only one cat".

From Old Hungarian ɛ̄n. Usually considered to continue the Proto-Uralic first-person pronoun *minä (compare e.g. Finnish minä), but there is no consensus on how the Hungarian word has developed to its present shape. At least four proposals have been advanced:[1]

1. irregular loss of the word-initial *m-
2. from earlier *ɛmen, through the vocalization and loss of word-internal *-m-, as in many other cases such as ó (“old”)
3. from earlier *ɛ̄mn, with the cluster *mn simplified to n
4. from earlier *ɛ̄m, derived from the shorter Uralic root *mi, and with the irregular simplification of the root-final *-m to -n, perhaps first in the accusative engem (< ? *ɛmgɛm).

The last three options assume that the word was prefixed with *ɛ- at some point, perhaps an intensifying particle, or from the Proto-Uralic pronoun root *e- (“this”) (compare ez (“this”)).

Similarly irregular first-person pronouns occur in Mansi: ам (Northern), [script needed] (äm) (Southern), and even in Chuvash: эпӗ (epĕ) from Proto-Turkic *bẹn. If these have a similar origin as the Hungarian word, they are the most compatible with the third and fourth explanations.

• IPA^(key): [ˈeːn]

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én

1. (personal) I (first-person singular)

   Én vagyok a képen. ― I am in the picture.

• énalattam
• éntőlem

én (plural ének)

1. self, ego

én

1. third-person plural present indicative of êse; “[​they​] are”

én

1. stressed form of en

• énskinnebane

From Proto-Celtic *ɸetnos.

én m (genitive éuin or éoin, nominative plural éuin or éoin)

1. bird

• firén
• senén

• Irish: éan
• Manx: eean
• Scottish Gaelic: eun

én!

1. lo!

• “1 én” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “2 én” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

From Proto-Vietic *ʔɛːnʔ, non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 燕 (SV: yến). Doublet of yến.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɛn˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɛŋ˦˧˥]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɛŋ˦˥]

(classifier con) én (燕)

1. a swallow (bird)

   Synonym: nhạn

2. (loosely) Synonym of yến (“swift”) (bird)