эй

See also: еј, ей, and Appendix:Variations of "ei"

Eastern Mari

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian эй (ej).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ej/
  • Rhymes: -ej
  • Hyphenation: эй

Interjection

эй • (ej)

  1. hey!
  2. oh!, ah! (expresses surprise, delight, sadness, pain, regret, disappointment, reproach, concern, etc.)

Particle

эй • (ej)

  1. emphatic particle
    вараш кодаш огыл манын, эй куржам, эй куржам
    varaš kodaš ogyl manyn, ej kuržam, ej kuržam
    I don't want to be late, I'm off and running

References

  • J. Bradley et al. (2023), “эй”, in The Mari Web Project: Mari-English Dictionary, University of Vienna

Erzya

Etymology

From Proto-Mordvinic *jäj ~ *jäŋ, from Proto-Uralic *jäŋe. Cognates include Moksha эй (ej), Finnish jää, Livonian jeij, Northern Sami jiekŋa, Eastern Mari ий (ij), Hungarian jég.

Pronunciation

Noun

эй • (ej)

  1. ice
    кельме теке эйkeľme teke ejcold as ice

Declension

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

References

  • V. I. Ščankina (2011) Russko-mokšansko-erzjanskij slovarʹ [Russian-Moksha-Erzya Dictionary], Saransk, →ISBN
  • Entry #171 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  • Keresztes, László (1986), Geschichte der mordwinischen Konsonantismus II. Etymologisches Belegmaterial[1], Szeged: Studia Uralo-Altaica 26.

Ket

Etymology

Inherited and derived from Proto-Yeniseian *eʌjʌ (kill, infinitive verb).[1][2][3]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /⁴ej/, [ɛç˥˩] [Action nominal]
  • IPA(key): /…ej/, […ɛʝ] [Finite verb]

Verb

эй (èj, [s⁴]-[q²]-ej⁰) (action nominal, conjugation class I or IV)

  1. killing, the act of killing [Action nominal]
  2. (transitive, telic) subject kills (someone or something else) [Conjugation class I]
  3. (intransitive, reflexive, telic) subject kills oneself, subject commits suicide [Conjugation class IV]

Usage notes

  • In Central and Northern Ket dialects, verb stems эйә (èjə) and эйи (èji) are used respectively instead, all broadly and phonemically analyzed as /èj/.
  • The preterite and imperative-marking prefix, usually either l²- or n²-, is replaced just in the case of this verb base with q²-. This is also the case for the verbs that are derived from this verb base, for example Ket уссэй (us⁷-[s⁴]-[q²]-ej⁰, S. hunts wild game, kills).[4]

References

  1. ^ https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fDATA%2fYENISEY%2fYENET&text_number=69&root=config
  2. ^ https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?root=new100&morpho=0&basename=new100%2Fyen%2Fyen&first=1&off=&text_word=kill&method_word=equal&sort=number
  3. ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, pages 276-277
  4. ^ Vajda, Edward J. (2004), Ket (Languages of the World/Materials; 204), Muenchen: Lincom GmbH, page 47

Further reading

  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 226
  • Vajda, Edward J.; Zinn, Marina (2004), Kotorova, Elizaveta G., editor, Морфологический словарь кетского глагола (in Russian), Tomsk: Томского государственного педагогического университет (TGPU), pages 156-157
  • Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, pages 164, 484, 686

Moksha

Etymology

From Proto-Mordvinic *jäɣ from Proto-Uralic *jäŋe. Compare Proto-Uralic *jäkšV (cold or cool). Cognates include Erzya эй (ej), Finnish jää, Livonian jeij, Northern Sami jiekŋa and Hungarian jég.

Noun

эй • (äj)

  1. ice

References

  • V. I. Ščankina (2011) Russko-mokšansko-erzjanskij slovarʹ [Russian-Moksha-Erzya Dictionary], Saransk, →ISBN

Nanai

Etymology

From Proto-Tungusic *eri, compare Evenki эр (ər), Manchu ᡝᡵᡝ (ere).

Pronoun

эй (ey)

  1. this

Russian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɛj]

Etymology 1

Interjection

эй • (ej)

  1. hey! (you, there!)
Descendants
  • Eastern Mari: эй (ej)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English a.

Noun

эй • (ejn inan (indeclinable)

  1. (English letter) A, a