Ei

Ei

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ei"

Translingual

Noun

Ei

  1. The exponential integral, a special function, defined as:

Angami

Letter

Ei

  1. The tenth letter of the Angami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Asturian

Proper noun

Ei ?

  1. initialism of Eilao

German

Etymology

    Inherited from Middle High German ei and Old High German ei, from Proto-West Germanic *aij, from Proto-Germanic *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm.

    Cognate with Yiddish איי (ey), Dutch ei, West Frisian aai, English ey and egg, Danish æg.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ʔaɪ̯/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):(file)
    • Rhymes: -aɪ̯

    Noun

    Ei n (strong, genitive Eies or Eis, plural Eier, diminutive Eichen n or Eierchen n or Eilein n)

    1. egg (all biological senses)
      Willst du dein Ei hart oder weich?
      Do you want your egg hard-boiled or soft-boiled?
      Das befruchtete Ei nistet sich in der Gebärmutter ein.
      The fertilised egg nidates in the uterus.
    2. something egg-shaped
    3. (informal, usually in the plural) testicle, ball
      Bei der OP wurden ihr die Eier entfernt.
      Her balls were removed during the surgery.
    4. (informal, figuratively, in the plural) balls, guts, courage
      Mal sehen, ob ihr Eier habt!
      Let’s see if you guys have balls!
    5. (colloquial, in the plural) bucks (money)
      Kost’ dreißig Eier, der Spaß.
      This thing costs thirty bucks.
    6. (colloquial, usually vocative, mildly derogatory) clown; foolish bloke
      Da steht „ziehen“, du Ei.
      [The sign] says “pull”, you clown.

    Declension

    Derived terms

    Further reading

    • Ei”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache[1] (in German)
    • Ei” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
    • Ei” in Duden online
    • Ei on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
    • Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Ei”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

    Japanese

    Romanization

    Ei

    1. Rōmaji transcription of えい

    Plautdietsch

    Etymology

    From Middle Low German ei, from Old Saxon ei, from Proto-Germanic *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm. Compare Dutch ei, obsolete English ey, West Frisian aai, Danish æg, German Ei.

    Noun

    Ei n (plural Eia)

    1. egg

    Derived terms

    Tlingit

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /eː/

    Letter

    Ei (lower case ei)

    1. (US) A letter of the Tlingit alphabet, written in the Latin script.
      Synonym: È

    See also