ei

ei

1. Obsolete spelling of ēyi

From Middle Dutch ei, from Old Dutch *ei, from Proto-Germanic *ajjaz, a West Germanic variety of *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm.

• IPA^(key): /ɛi̯/

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ei n (plural eieren, diminutive eitje n)

1. egg

   Wie kookte deze eieren? or more common: Wie heeft deze eieren gekookt? — Who boiled these eggs?

• ie

From the Proto-Finno-Ugric negative verb stem *e- ~ *ä- ~ *a-. Cognates include Finnish ei and Northern Sami ii.

ei

1. no (a negating expression)

• jaa
• jah
• küll

ei

1. (auxiliary verb) don't, doesn't, not: used in negative forms of non-imperative verbs. Ma ei tea. I don't know. (Compare: Ma tean. I know.)

The verb follows the word ei.

In the present tense indicative, the form of the verb coincides with the imperative of the second person singular. In past tenses indicative, the form of the verb is personal past participle. In the conditional mood, the form of the verb coincides with third person singular conditional in the present tense or the past tense. In the indirect mood, the form of the verb is the indirect form.

• eitama

• IPA^(key): [ai]

ei

1. not

• ikki

• ei og ikki - as well as, both ... and
• grát ei - do not weep (song title by Eivør Pálsdóttir, 2007)

From Proto-Finno-Ugric negative verb stem *e- ~ *ä- ~ *a-. Cognates include Estonian ei and Northern Sami ii.

• IPA^(key): /ˈei̯/, [ˈe̞i̯]

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• Hyphenation: ei
• Rhymes: -ei

ei

1. no (a negating expression)

• kyllä

ei

1. The third-person singular form of the negation verb, used also with impersonal verb forms (see the usage in passive below). The English translations include don’t, doesn’t, not (with auxiliary verbs and be), and no.

• The negation verb is used with the connegative form of the main verb. That form is identical to the second-person singular imperative in the indicative present. The potential mood connegative ends in the marker for the mood, -ne-, and the conditional mood connegative ends in the marker for the mood, -isi-. In the indicative past, conditional past and potential past, the active past participle singular (ending -ut/-yt) is used. The connegative form of the main verb is always used without the personal suffix.

• Usage of ei in active:

• Indicative:

• Hän näkee. (She/He sees.) → Hän ei näe. (She/He does not see.)
• Hän näki. (She/He saw.) → Hän ei nähnyt. (She/He did not see.)
• Hän on nähnyt. (She/He has seen.) → Hän ei ole nähnyt. (She/He has not seen.)
• Hän oli nähnyt. (She/He had seen.) → Hän ei ollut nähnyt. (She/He had not seen.)

• Conditional:

• Hän näkisi. (She/He would see.) → Hän ei näkisi. (She/He would not see.)
• Hän olisi nähnyt. (She/He would have seen.) → Hän ei olisi nähnyt. (She/He would not have seen.)

• Potential:

• Hän nähnee. (She/He probably sees.) → Hän ei nähne. (She/He probably does not see.)
• Hän lienee nähnyt. (She/He has probably seen.) → Hän ei liene nähnyt. (She/He has probably not seen.)

• The passive is construed with ei and by dropping the two last letters (indicative -an / -än, conditional -in, potential -en) from the impersonal verb form. In the past of all the three moods, ei is used with the passive past participle singular (ending -tu / -ty):

• Usage of ei in passive (i.e., in sentences where the impersonal verb form is used):

• Indicative:

• Hänet/Minut/Meidät nähdään. (S/he is / I am / We are seen.) → Häntä/Minua/Meitä ei nähdä. (S/he is / I am / We are not seen.)
• Hänet/Minut/Meidät nähtiin. (S/he was / I was / We were seen.) → Häntä/Minua/Meitä ei nähty. (S/he was / I was / We were not seen.)
• Hänet/Minut/Meidät on nähty. (S/he has / I have / We have been seen.) → Häntä/Minua/Meitä ei ole nähty. (S/He has / I have / We have not been seen.)
• Hänet/Minut/Meidät oli nähty. (S/he / I / We had been seen.) → Häntä/Minua/Meitä ei ollut nähty. (S/he / I / We had not been seen.)

• Conditional:

• Hänet/Minut/Meidät nähtäisiin. (S/he / I / We would be seen.) → Häntä/Minua/Meitä ei nähtäisi. (S/he / I / We would not be seen.)
• Hänet/Minut/Meidät olisi nähty. (S/he / I / We would have been seen.) → Häntä/Minua/Meitä ei olisi nähty. (S/he / I / We would not have been seen.)

• Potential:

• Hänet/Minut/Meidät nähtäneen. (S/he is / I am / We are probably seen.) → Häntä/Minua/Meitä ei nähtäne. (S/he is / I am / We are probably not seen.)
• Hänet/Minut/Meidät lienee nähty. (S/he has / I have / We have probably been seen.) → Häntä/Minua/Meitä ei liene nähty. (S/he has / I have / We have probably not been seen.)

• Note that the accusative objects (e.g. minut, sinut, hänet, meidät, teidät, heidät), the genitive-looking accusative objects singular (talon, kissan, koiran) and the nominative-looking accusative objects plural (talot, kissat, koirat) are never used in a sentence together with the negative verb – in these cases, the partitive is used:

• Hän näkee koiran (accusative). (S/he sees a dog.) → Hän ei näe koiraa (partitive). (S/he does not see a dog.)
• Hän näkee naiset (accusative). (S/he sees the women.) → Hän ei näe naisia (partitive). (S/he does not see women/the women)

• The negation verb has no infinitive form.
• Indicative, conditional and potential moods use the indicative forms (stem e-), for which the verb is conjugated only in person.
• In the imperative mood the negation verb has the stem äl-.
• An archaic optative mood exists and is used mainly in poetry.

person	indicative mood	imperative mood	optative mood
1st sing.	en	(älkääni, älkäämi)	(ällön)
2nd sing.	et	älä	(ällös)
3rd sing.	ei	älköön	(älköön)
1st plur.	emme	älkäämme	(älköömme)
2nd plur.	ette	älkää	(älköötte)
3rd plur.	eivät	älkööt	(älkööt)

• eih
• eittämättä

• epä-
• evätä

ei

1. Romanization of 𐌴𐌹

From Old Norse ei. A clipping of eigi, from Proto-Germanic *ni aiw-gin (“never”), from *ne, *ni (“not”) + *aiw (“always, for ever”) + *-gin. Not related to Finnish ei (“no”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈeiː/
• Rhymes: -eiː
• Homophones: ey, Ey

ei

1. (archaic) not

   Örvæntið ei!

   Despair not!

   Ég veit ei hvað skal segja.

   I know not what to say.

• (not): eigi, ekki

• eður ei
• gleym-mér-ei

See e.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛːɪ/
• Rhymes: -ɛːɪ

ei

1. dative singular indefinite of e

• “ei” and “eigi” in: Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon — Íslensk orðsifjabók, 1st edition, 2nd printing (1989). Reykjavík, Orðabók Háskólans.

From Proto-Finno-Ugric negative verb stem *e- ~ *ä- ~ *a-. Cognates include Finnish ei and Northern Sami ii.

ei

1. not

• IPA^(key): /ˈei̯/
• Hyphenation: éi

Syncopated form of elli (“he”), from Vulgar Latin *illi, from Latin ille (“that”).

ei m

1. (poetic, archaic, after the verb) Alternative form of elli

Syncopated form of elli (“they”), from Latin illī (“those”).

ei m pl

1. (archaic) Alternative form of elli

ei

1. Rōmaji transcription of えい

ei

1. (does) not

From Proto-Yeniseian *ʔej- ("pine"). Compare Arin aja (“pine”).

ei (plural en)

1. pine tree

From Proto-Yeniseian *ʔej ("tongue"). Compare Pumpokol aj (“tongue”).

ei (plural ējaŋ)

1. voice, sound

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ei̯/

ei

1. oh! (expressing alarm)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.iː/

eī

1. nominative masculine plural of is
2. dative masculine singular of is
3. dative feminine singular of is
4. dative neuter singular of is

ei

1. used to stimulate somebody's attention
2. used to express pleasure, surprise or admiration

From Middle Dutch ei, from Old Dutch *ei, from Proto-Germanic *ajjaz, a West Germanic variety of *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm.

ei n

1. egg

ei

1. fire

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

ei

1. Nonstandard spelling of ēi.
2. Nonstandard spelling of ěi.
3. Nonstandard spelling of èi.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

From Old Dutch *ei, from Proto-Germanic *ajjaz, a West Germanic variety of *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm.

ei n

1. egg

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: ei
• Limburgish: ei

• “ei”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “ei”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

• æȝe, aye, ey

From Old English ǣġ, from Proto-Germanic *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm. Cognate to Middle Dutch ei.

• IPA^(key): /ɛi/

ei (plural eire or eiren)

1. An egg, especially of a chicken or other fowl.

• egge

• English: ey

• “ei (n.(1))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-02-23.

From Old Norse ein.

ei

1. feminine singular of en

ei

1. feminine singular of en

ei

1. (archaic) not

• (not): ikke

ei

1. imperative of eie

• IPA^(key): /æɪ/

From Old Norse ein.

ei f (masculine ein, neuter eit)

1. a, an (indefinite article)

   Ei ny bok.

   A new book.

ei

1. feminine singular of ein

From Old Norse eigi.

ei

1. not

• (not): ikkje

From Proto-Germanic *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm. Akin to Old English ǣġ, Old Norse egg.

Further Indo-European cognates include Latin ōvum and Ancient Greek ᾠόν (ōión)

ei n

1. (zoology) an egg

• Middle High German: ei
  • Alemannic German:

    Swabian: Oi

  • Bavarian: Oa
  • German: Ei
  • Luxembourgish: Ee
  • Vilamovian: e
  • Yiddish: איי‎ (ey)

• ex
• ey

Uncertain.

• IPA^(key): /ˈej/

ei

1. here is, here are
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 147 (facsimile):

     eimeaca eimaca

     «ei-me aca; ei-m'aca!»

     "Here I am, here I am!"

• Portuguese: ei, eis

• eig, egg

From Proto-Germanic *ajjaz, a West Germanic variant of *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm.

ei n

1. (zoology) an egg

• Middle Low German: ei, egg, eig
  • Low German:
    • German Low German: Ei
    • Westphalian:

      Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: Åich

      Sauerländisch: Ai

      Westmünsterländisch: Äi

      Märkisch: Ägg

  • Plautdietsch: Ei

From Portuguese eis and Spanish ese and Old Portuguese ei.

ei

1. that
2. there.

• IPA^(key): /ˈej/

ei (not comparable)

1. Apocopic form of eis; used preceding the pronouns lo, la, los or las

ei

1. hey (exclamation to get attention)

• IPA^(key): /jej/

From Latin illī, nominative masculine plural of ille.

ei m pl (third-person plural, feminine equivalent ele)

1. (nominative form) they (used for an all-male or mixed-sex group)

• dumnealor (polite form)

ei m (stressed accusative form of ei)

1. (direct object, preceded by preposition, such as "pe", "cu", "la", or "pentru") them (all-male or mixed-sex group)

• el (third-person masculine singular)
• ea (third-person feminine singular)
• ele (third-person feminine plural)

From Vulgar Latin *illaei, from Latin illa, from ille.

ei f (genitive form of ea, masculine equivalent lui, plural lor)

1. her

   Ai cartea ei?

   Do you have her book?

• său

ei f (stressed dative form of ea, masculine equivalent lui, plural lor)

1. to her

• îi (unstressed form)

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

ei

1. water (clear liquid H₂O)

• ABVD
• Comparative Austronesian Dictionary

ei (plural een)

1. (South Scots) an eye.

ei

1. (South Scots, personal) he (alternative form of hei)

Cognate with Finnish ei.

ei

1. not; expresses negation.

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “не, ни”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

From Proto-Celtic *esyo m and *esyās f; compare Old Irish a (“his, her, its, their”) and Sanskrit अस्य (asyá, “his, its”) and अस्यास् (asyā́s, “her”).

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ei̯/
  • (colloquial) IPA^(key): /iː/, /ɪ/

ei (triggers soft mutation of a following consonant)

1. his, its

   Dw i’n gweld ei dŷ e.

   I see his house.

2. him, it (as object of a verbal noun)
   • 18th century, Wil Hopcyn, “Bugeilio’r gwenith gwyn”:

     Myfi’n bugeilio’r gwenith gwyn,
     Ac arall yn ei fedi.

     Me watching the white wheat,
     And another reaping it.

e or o often follows the noun when it ends in a consonant and either fe or fo follows when it ends in a vowel.

ei (triggers aspirate mutation of a following consonant)

1. her, its

   Dw i’n gweld ei thŷ hi.

   I see her house.

2. her, it (as object of a verbal noun)

hi often follows the noun.

• IPA^(key): /ei̯/

ei

1. second-person singular future of mynd (also present tense in the literary language)