ee

1. (international standards)ISO 639-1language code forEwe.

• Rhymes:-iː

ee (pluraleen)

1. (Scotland,Northern England andarchaic) Aneye.
   • 1798,Samuel Taylor Coleridge,"The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere":

     Each turn'd his face with a ghastly pang / And curs'd me with hisee.

   • 1815, Sir Walter Scott,Guy Mannering:

     […] and he never took hisee aff them, or said another word[…]

• Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “ee”, inA Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear:Northumbria University Press,→ISBN.

ee

1. (Northern England)eh
   • 1975, R. Chetwynd-Hayes,The Werewolf and the Vampire:

     Father advanced with outstretched hand and announced in a loud, very hearty voice: "Ee, I'm pleased to meet ye, lad.[…]

   • 2008, Mavis Crawley,The Rolling Stone: Based on the True Story of My Life:

     'Ee by gum lass we've seen nought of thee this many a long year, thou's a sight for sore eyes,' he said planting a kiss firmly on Mum's cheek...

ee (pluralees)

1. (chemistry)Enantiomeric excess.

ee (pluralees)

2. Alternative form ofe:the name of theLatin-script letterE/e.
   • 1773 October,The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged:

     The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, elee en gee tee aitch.

   • 2004, Will Rogers,The Stonking Steps, page170:

     I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time.

   • 2016 CCEB,Communications Instructions Radiotelephone Procedures: ACP125 (G), p. 3-5

     ETA [is spoken] as "ee-tee-ay" instead of "I SPELL Echo Tango Alfa".

• aitch ee double hockey sticks

FromCantonese噫(ji²,interjection).

• (Singapore)IPA^(key):/iː/,[iː˧˦˧],[iː˦˦˧],[iːː˨˦˧]

ee(with as many extra ‘e’s as needed for emphasis)

1. (Singapore)Ew,yuck;expression ofdisgust.
   • 2000 December 29, Samuel Lee,The Straits Times, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited, page L8:

     Eee, so commercial some might say.

• Not to be confused witheee, an unrelated general-English interjection of excitement.

èe

1. yes

FromMiddle Dutchêe, fromOld Dutchēwa, fromProto-West Germanic*aiw.

• IPA^(key):/eː/
• Hyphenation:ee
• Rhymes:-eː

ee f (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) alaw orrule
2. (obsolete) the bond ofmarriage

• eegade,eega,eegemaal,echt,eeuw,ieder,ooit

ee (genitive[please provide],partitive[please provide])

1. The name of theLatin-script letterE/e.

ee

1. genitivesingular ofesi

FromLatinē.

• IPA^(key):/ˈeː/,[ˈe̞ː]
• Rhymes:-eː
• Hyphenation^(key):ee

ee

1. The name of theLatin-script letterE/e.

• IPA^(key):/ʔéː/

ee

1. OK
2. yes

• Petrollino, Sara (2016)A Grammar of Hamar: A South Omotic language of Ethiopia‎^[1], Leiden University

• IPA^(key):/éꜜé/

eē

1. yes

   Antonym:mbà

ee

1. Rōmaji transcription ofええ

• IPA^(key):/e.e/

ee

1. yes

• IPA^(key):/iː/

FromOld Irishí.

ee (emphaticeeishorish)

1. she

   As ta'n chooid share jeh nagh velee ny ben Vanninagh.

   The beauty of it is that she is not Manx.

   Ben vie thieee.

   She is a good housekeeper.

   Cha dooaree eh.

   She didn't find it.

   Cha nelee agh ny lhiannoo.

   She is but a child.

   Er leshyn dy rowee nane jeh e chaarjyn.

   He counted her among his friends.

2. her

   Hug eh fo obbeeysee.

   He bewitched her.

   Ren eh smeidey stiaghee.

   He beckoned her in.

3. it(referring to a feminine noun)

   Cha jargym fakinee.

   I can't see it.

FromOld Irishithid, fromProto-Celtic*ɸiteti, fromProto-Indo-European*peyt-.

ee (pastdee,verbal nounee,present participlegee,past participleeeit)

1. toeat,consume,feed

The expected future indicative form would be*ee but it’s not attested, the relative form iseeys. In non-relative context generally periphrastic constructions with the verbal noun are used, e.g.cre nee shiu yee, ny cre nee shiu y iv ―what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink,nee ehgee ec my voayrd hene ―he shall eat at my table,raad nee adgee eh ―wherein they shall eat it.

• æ,ea,eaa(Early Middle English)
• *eo

FromOld Englishēa,ǣ, fromProto-West Germanic*ahu, fromProto-Germanic*ahwō.Doublet ofaa.

• IPA^(key):/ɛː/
• (early)IPA^(key):/æː/

ee

1. A body ofwater;river,stream.

• eafrosk(“waterfrog”)

• English:ea,Eau,eau,yeo

• “ē, n.²”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007.

ee f

1. Alternative form ofēa

(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key):/ee/

ee (modal,Perso-Arabic spellingاے)

1. Utterance final question clitic

• aa(Biori)

• Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “ee”, inPalula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎^[2], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives,→ISBN

(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key):/ee/

ee (conjunction,Perso-Arabic spellingاے)

1. Conjoining marker cliticized to the first constituent

• Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “ee”, inPalula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎^[3], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives,→ISBN

From (Anglian)Old Englishēġe.

ee (pluraleen)

1. eye
   • 1789,Robert Burns,Willie Brew'd A Peck O' Maut:

     We are na fou, we're nae that fou, / But just a drappie in ouree

     We are not full, we're not that full, / but just a drop [of liquor] in oureye

• (Dundee)eh

FromOld Englishġē.

ee (personal, non-emphatic)

1. (Southern Scots)you

ee

1. Shetland form ofae(“one”)

• ye
• yow
• yow yins

• “ee,adj.”, inThe Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh:Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present,→OCLC.

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ee

1. o;oh

FromProto-Mixtec*ɨ́ɨ̨́.

ee

1. one

FromProto-Mixtec*ɨ̀ɨ̨̀.

ee

1. nine

• Alvarado, Francisco de (1593)Vocabulario en lengua misteca (in Spanish), Mexico: En casa de Pedro Balli, page203v

• IPA^(key):/iː/

ee (upper caseEe)

1. (US)Aletter of the Tlingitalphabet, written in theLatin script.

   Synonym:ì

• Canada:
• (Latin-script letters)A a,Á á,À à, â,Ch ch,Chʼ chʼ,D d,Dł dł,Dz dz,E e,É é,È è,Ê ê,G g,Gw gw,Gh gh,Ghw ghw,H h,I i,Í í,Ì ì,Πî,J j,K k,Kw kw,Kʼ kʼ,Kʼw kʼw,Kh kh,Khw khw,Khʼ khʼ,Khʼw khʼw (L l),Ł ł,Łʼ łʼ (M m),N n (O o),S s,Sʼ sʼ,Sh sh,T t,Tʼ tʼ,Tl tl,Tlʼ tlʼ,Ts ts,Tsʼ tsʼ,U u,Ú ú,Ù ù,Û û,W w,X x,Xw xw,Xʼ xʼ,Xʼw xʼw,Xh xh,Xhw xhw,Xhʼ xhʼ,Xhʼw xhʼw,Y y (Ÿ ÿ),․
• US:
• (Latin-script letters)A a,Á á,Aa aa,Áa áa,Ch ch,Chʼ chʼ,D d,Dl dl,Dz dz,E e,É é,Ee ee,Ée ée,Ei ei,Éi éi,G g,Gw gw,G̱ g̱,G̱w g̱w,H h,I i,Í í,J j,K k,Kw kw,Kʼ kʼ,Kʼw kʼw,Ḵ ḵ,Ḵw ḵw,Ḵʼ ḵʼ,Ḵʼw ḵʼw,L l,Lʼ lʼ (Ḻ ḻ,M m),N n (O o),Oo oo,Óo óo,S s,Sʼ sʼ,Sh sh,T t,Tʼ tʼ,Tl tl,Tlʼ tlʼ,Ts ts,Tsʼ tsʼ,U u,Ú ú,W w,X x,Xw xw,Xʼ xʼ,Xʼw xʼw,X̱ x̱,X̱w x̱w,X̱ʼ x̱ʼ,X̱ʼw x̱ʼw,Y y (Ÿ ÿ,Y̱ y̱),․

• IPA^(key):/ˈe.ɪ/

ee

1. yes

FromProto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian*waiʀ, fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*wahiʀ.

ee

1. water(clear liquid H₂O)

ee (genitive[please provide],partitive[please provide])

1. The name of theLatin-script letterE/e.

This noun needs aninflection-table template.

• 'eee

• IPA^(key):[eː]

ee

1. yes

   Synonym:mmjm

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ee”, inGrammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[4], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988)The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page388: “'eee - yes”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “ʔeee”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors,The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[5], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published2021

ee

1. Alternative form ofing(“in”)
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, inSONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page84:

     Th' valler w'speen here, th' lassee chourch-hey.

     The more we spend here, the lessin the churchyard.

   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, inSONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, page84:

     Joud an moud vrem earchee ete wasee Lough.

     Throngs and crowds from each quarter wereat the Lough;

   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, inSONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, page84:

     Zitch vaperreen, an shimmereen, fan ee-daffee aar scoth!

     Such vapouring and glittering when striptin their shirts!

ee

1. Alternative form ofa(“the”)
   • 1867,GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page52:

     Leiough utee die.

     Idle outthe day.

   • 1867,CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page114, lines1-3:

     Wee, Vassalès o' 'His Most Gracious Majesty,' Wilyameee Vourthe,

     We, the subjects of his Most Gracious Majesty, William [the] IV.,

   • 1867, “DR. RUSSELL ON THE INHABITANTS AND DIALECT OF THE BARONY OF FORTH”, inAPPENDIX, page130:

     Ee vrieste o' paryshe on a long-tailed garrane.

     [The priest of parish on a long-tailed pony.]

   • 1867, “DR. RUSSELL ON THE INHABITANTS AND DIALECT OF THE BARONY OF FORTH”, inAPPENDIX, page130:

     Anure vremee Bake,

     [Another fromthe Beak,]

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page37

ee

1. toeat

• Samson Alexander Lotven (2021)The Sound Systems of Zophei Dialects and Other Maraic Languages (Dissertation)‎^[6]