E

From the Etruscan letter 𐌄 (e, “e”), from the Ancient Greek letter Ε (E, “epsilon”), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤄 (h, “he”), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓀠.

Letter

E (lower case e)

The fifth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Symbol

E

(sciences, computing) Symbol separating mantissa from the exponent in scientific notation.
2E5 = 2 × 10⁵
(computing) Hexadecimal symbol for 14.
(physics) Energy.
E=mc²
(biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for glutamic acid
(mathematics) expectation function
Abbreviation of exa-.
(linguistics) A wildcard for a front vowel
synonyms: I
(clothing) Bra cup size.

Synonyms

(scientific notation): e

Gallery

Letter styles
Uppercase and lowercase versions of E, in normal and italic type
Uppercase and lowercase E in Fraktur

English

Pronunciation

(phoneme, usually): IPA^(key): /ɛ/, /iː/, or silent
Audio (UK): (file)
Audio (US): (file)
(letter name): IPA^(key): /iː/
Rhymes: -iː

Etymology 1

From Middle English and Old English upper case letter E and split of Æ, EA, EO, and Œ, from five 7th century replacements of Anglo-Saxon Futhorcs by Latin letters:

Old English letter E, from replacement by Latin letter E of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛖ (e).
Old English letter Æ from replacement by Latin ligature Æ of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚫ (æ).
Old English digraph EA, from replacement by Latin digraph EA of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛠ (ea).
Old English digraph EO from replacement by Latin digraph EO of Anglo-Saxon Futhorc ᛇ (eo).
Old English letter Œ from replacement by Latin ligature Œ of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛟ (œ).

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e, plural Es or E's)

The fifth letter of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.
- 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
  On several occasions, indeed, he did learn E, F, G, H, but by the time he knew them, it was always discovered that he had forgotten A, B, C, and D.

Number

E (upper case, lower case e)

The ordinal number fifth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

Abbreviation.

Symbol

E

(ESRB rating) Abbreviation of everyone.
East.

Translations

east — see also east

German: O (de) m
Swedish: Ö (sv)

Noun

E (plural Es)

(slang) The drug ecstasy (MDMA), particularly in pill form.
- 1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 156:
  Sick Boy brings oot some E. White doves; ah think. It's mental gear. Most Ecstasy hasnae any MDMA in it, it's just likesay, ken, part speed, part acid in its effects . . .
- 1995, “Sorted For E’s and Wizz”, in Jarvis Cocker (lyrics), Different Class, performed by Pulp:
  And I don't quite understand just what this feeling is / But that's okay cause we're all sorted out for E's and wizz
- 2002, Hugh Mackay, Winter Close, Sydney: Hodder Headline, →ISBN, page 85:
  You mentioned you were taking stuff. Did you mean ecstasy? / What else? It’s excellent. I’m not an addict or nothing, and I steer clear of crack and that. People say E is for losers but, hey, I’d never be without some eccy in my bag.
(chiefly LGBTQ) Abbreviation of estrogen or estradiol.
Coordinate term: T (“testosterone”)
The grade below D in some grading systems. In most such systems, it is a failing grade.
- 1999, Julian Stallabrass, High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s, Verso, →ISBN, page 25,
  In line with this, he is marketed not only as a mental innocent, but as a class primitive, someone who only got an E in A-level art […]
- a2003, Rick, quoted in Linda MacDowell, Redundant Masculinities?: Employment Change and White Working Class Youth, Blackwell Publishing (2003), →ISBN, page 198,
  My results weren’t that great, to be honest. I weren’t right happy with them; I got an E in Maths and that were a surprise, but I did get a B in Technology – that were all right.
- 2005, S. J. Smith, Joe Public, Virtualbookworm Publishing, →ISBN, page 125,
  Not really, but perhaps I’d have got an ‘E’ in Tech Drawing no matter how much I’d asserted myself. Maybe Mr. Pinkerton would have seen to it that my exam paper was tampered with. A spot of teacher to student revenge.
- 2005, Craig Taylor, Light, Reverb, →ISBN, page 103,
  But she didn’t get the bit about my accidental artistic career, “But you can’t draw love. You got an E in your exam. I remember that. You drew that onion that looked like a boil.”
Abbreviation of episode. (installment of a series)
The pilot episode is S01E01.

Translations

slang: ecstasy

Chinese:
Cantonese: E仔 (ji¹ zai²)
Czech: éčko (cs) n
French: Hebrew (fr)
Thai: ยาอี (th)

slang: estrogen/estradiol

Chinese:
Mandarin: 補 / 补 (zh) (bǔ)
French: E (fr) f or f pl

grade below D

Chinese:
Mandarin: 戊 (zh) (wù)
Swedish: E (sv)

abbreviation of episode

Swedish: A (sv)

Proper noun

E

(religion) Abbreviation of Elohist.

Etymology 3

English Wikipedia has an article on:

E (state)

Wikipedia

English Wikipedia has an article on:

E (surname)

Wikipedia

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鄂 (È).

Alternative forms

O (Wade–Giles)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʌ/, enPR: ǔ
Rhymes: -ʌ

Proper noun

E

(history) A state in ancient China of varying location in present-day Shanxi, Henan, and Hubei.
- 2002, The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 229:
  The discovery suggests also that the center of the state of E was located in the Suizao corridor in Hubei, not far from the location of E as suggested by ancient geographical works.
- 2006, Li Feng, Landscape and Power in Early China‎^[2], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 330–331:
  These three bronzes, though clearly modeled on Zhou types, are quite distinctive from the Zhou tradition. They suggest that, although the state of E served as an ally and agent of the Western Zhou state, it probably had a distinctive cultural origin of its own.
- 2014, Liu Yang, Cast for Eternity‎^[3], Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 15:
  A six-character inscription cast inside the bowl records that this gui was made for a nobleman of the E state. Due to gaps in Chinese historical records, the exact history of the state of E is uncertain. Since the E Shu Gui was salvaged from a pile of scrap copper shipped to the Shanghai Foundry from Hubei province, some scholars have inferred that the gui was excavated from Hubei, therefore proving that the E state during the Western Zhou was located in today's Hubei province.
(history) Its capital, also known as Echeng and Ezhou.
A surname from Mandarin Chinese.

Related terms

Echeng, Eping, Ezhou

Translations

ancient nation

Chinese:
Mandarin: 鄂 (zh) (È)
Japanese: 鄂 (ja) (gaku)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ئێ (ê)
Vietnamese: ngạc (vi)

Etymology 4

English Wikipedia has an article on:

E language

Wikipedia

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 誒 / 诶 (ê̄), from E ɛ⁵⁵.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɛ/, enPR: ĕ
Rhymes: -ɛ

Proper noun

E

A Tai-Chinese mixed language spoken primarily in Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, Guangxi, China; Kjang E.

Translations

a Tai-Chinese mixed language spoken primarily in Rongshui Miao Autonomous County

Chinese:
Mandarin: 誒話 / 诶话 (zh) (ê̄huà), 五色話 / 五色话 (wǔsèhuà)
E: 誒

Etymology 5

English Wikipedia has an article on:

River E

Wikipedia

Unknown.

Proper noun

E

A river in Highland council area, Scotland.

Afar

Letter

E

The fifth letter of the Afar alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /ɪə/

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

The fifth letter of the Afrikaans alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Noun

E (plural E's, diminutive E'tjie)

E

Albanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɛ/, /e/

Letter

E (upper case E, lower case e)

The 7th letter of the Standard Albanian Latin-script alphabet.

Angami

Letter

E

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

Azerbaijani

Letter

E upper case (lower case e)

The sixth letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Basque

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /e/, [e̞]

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

The fifth letter of the Basque alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

Central Franconian

Etymology

/ɛ/ is from Middle High German e (both ë and ẹ) in most closed syllables, in some dialects also in open syllables; in Moselle Franconian from ö in the same positions.
/e/ is from i in most closed syllables; in Moselle Franconian from ü in the same positions.
/eː/ is from ei in Ripuarian and western Moselle Franconian (latter also öu); from ie in Ripuarian and northern Moselle Franconian (latter also üe); from ē, œ in southern Moselle Franconian; in some Moselle Franconian dialects from e, ö in open syllables.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (short open) /ɛ/, (short closed) /e/, (long) /eː/, (reduced) /ə/

Letter

E

A letter in the German-based alphabet of Central Franconian.
A letter in the Dutch-based alphabet of Central Franconian.

Usage notes

In the German-based spelling, short open /ɛ/ may also be represented by Ä (see there).
In the Dutch-based spelling, short closed /e/, which ranges phonetically between [e] and [ɪ], is represented by I (see there).

Doubling of long E

In the German-based spelling, long e is doubled to ee when the German cognate word has ee as well. Long e may or may not be doubled in the following cases:
- at the end of a word or word stem: hee or he;
- when it is followed by two or more consonants: Leech or rarely Lech;
- when the German cognate has two vowel letters: Steen or Sten (German Stein);
- when the German cognate has a consonant lost or not present in Central Franconian: weed or wed (German wird);
- when the German cognate has a short vowel: Keet or Ket (German Kette).
In the Dutch-based spelling, long e is always doubled in closed syllables and at the end of a word, always written simple in non-final open syllables.

Chinese

Etymology 1

Romanisation of 𪘲 / 𬺌 (ji¹).

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): ji¹

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ji¹
  - Yale: yī
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ji¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: yi¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiː⁵⁵/

Verb

E

(Cantonese, nonstandard) Alternative form of 𪘲 / 𬺌 (ji¹).

Etymology 2

Romanisation of 依 (ji¹).

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): ji¹

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ji¹
  - Yale: yī
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ji¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: yi¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiː⁵⁵/

Pronoun

E

(Cantonese, nonstandard) Alternative form of 依 (ji¹, “this; these”).

Derived terms

E+
ED

Etymology 3

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yì (yi⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ji¹
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): i

(Teochew, Peng'im): i⁵
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹i

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yì
  - Zhuyin: ㄧˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yì
  - Wade–Giles: i⁴
  - Yale: yì
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yih
  - Palladius: и (i)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ji¹
  - Yale: yī
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ji¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: yi¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiː⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: i
  - Tâi-lô: i
  - Phofsit Daibuun: y
  - IPA (Xiamen): /i⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: i⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: î
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵⁵/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ¹i
  - MiniDict: i^平
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹i
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /i⁵³/

Letter

E

The fifth letter of the Latin alphabet.

Pronunciation 2

Mandarin
(Pinyin): ē (e¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄜ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: ē
  - Zhuyin: ㄜ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: e
  - Wade–Giles: o¹
  - Yale: ē
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: e
  - Palladius: э (e)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɤ⁵⁵/

Letter

E

The fifth letter used in Pinyin.

Usage notes

The pronunciation above are only used while referring to letters in Pinyin. They are not used in other context (such as English).

Czech

Letter

E

The eighth letter of the Czech alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Dutch

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /eː/
Audio: (file)

Letter

E (capital, lowercase e)

The fifth letter of the Dutch alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Elfdalian

Alternative forms

ᛆ (Dalecarlian runes)

Letter

E (upper case E, lower case e)

The seventh letter of the Elfdalian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /e/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /e/
Audio: (file)

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

The sixth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

Noun

E

Abbreviation of eosto (“east”).

Estonian

Estonian Wikipedia has an article on:

E

Wikipedia ^et

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

The fifth letter of the Estonian alphabet, called ee and written in the Latin script.

Finnish

Etymology

The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on those of Swedish, German and Latin, and was first used in the mid-16th century. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and E for information on the development of the glyph itself.

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

The fifth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called ee and written in the Latin script.

Noun

E

Abbreviation of eximia cum laude approbatur.
Alternative letter-case form of e (“E (musical note)”)

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ə/
Audio (Paris): (file)

Adjective

E

Abbreviation of est; east

Noun

E m

Abbreviation of est; east

Letter

E

The fifth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Galician

Noun

E

leste (east)

Synonyms

(east): L

German

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʔeː/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -eː
Homophones: Ä (one pronunciation), eh

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

The fifth letter of the German alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Hawaiian

Alternative forms

(letter name) ʻē

Pronunciation

(letter name) IPA^(key): /ˈʔeː/
(phoneme) IPA^(key): /e/

Letter

E

The second letter of the Hawaiian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Hungarian

Pronunciation

(letter or phoneme itself; identifier): IPA^(key): [ˈɛː]^[1]
(musical note): IPA^(key): [ˈeː] (in the names of major scales; see also e)

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

The ninth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	E	E-k
accusative	E-t	E-ket
dative	E-nek	E-knek
instrumental	E-vel	E-kkel
causal-final	E-ért	E-kért
translative	E-vé	E-kké
terminative	E-ig	E-kig
essive-formal	E-ként	E-kként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	E-ben	E-kben
superessive	E-n	E-ken
adessive	E-nél	E-knél
illative	E-be	E-kbe
sublative	E-re	E-kre
allative	E-hez	E-khez
elative	E-ből	E-kből
delative	E-ről	E-kről
ablative	E-től	E-ktől
non-attributive possessive - singular	E-é	E-ké
non-attributive possessive - plural	E-éi	E-kéi

Possessive forms of E
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	E-m	E-im
2nd person sing.	E-d	E-id
3rd person sing.	E-je	E-i
1st person plural	E-nk	E-ink
2nd person plural	E-tek	E-itek
3rd person plural	E-jük	E-ik

Derived terms

References

^ Siptár, Péter and Miklós Törkenczy. The Phonology of Hungarian. The Phonology of the World’s Languages. Oxford University Press, 2007. →ISBN, p. 280

Icelandic

Letter

E (lower case e)

The sixth letter of the Icelandic alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Ido

Letter

E (lower case e)

The fifth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Indonesian

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /e/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /e/, /ɛ/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /ə/

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

The fifth letter of the Indonesian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Irish

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

The fifth letter of the Irish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

E

Wikipedia ^it

Pronunciation

(letter name) IPA^(key): /ˈe/^*
- Rhymes: -e
- Hyphenation: É
- Homophone: e
(phonemic realization) IPA^(key): /e/, /ɛ/
- Homophones: e, è

Letter

E f or m (invariable, upper case, lower case e)

The fifth letter of the Italian alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

Noun

E m

Abbreviation of est; east

Japanese

Romanization

E

Rōmaji transcription of え

Kashubian

Etymology

The Kashubian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Kashubian alphabet article on Wikipedia for more, and E for development of the glyph itself.

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

The seventh letter of the Kashubian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Latin

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

A letter in the Latin alphabet, representing the vowels /e/ and /eː/

Usage notes

Historical Latin texts did not generally distinguish short and long vowels orthographically. In modern texts and editions of older texts, the vowels are typically written ⟨E⟩ and ⟨Ē⟩ to mark the length distinction.

Latvian

Latvian Wikipedia has an article on:

E

Wikipedia ^lv

Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ɛ]
Audio: (file)
IPA^(key): [æ]
Audio: (file)

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

The seventh letter of the Latvian alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

The letter E/e (like its long counterpart Ē/ē) represent two sounds, [ɛ] — šaurais e (“narrow e”) — and [æ] — platais e (“broad e”). In principle, [ɛ] is used when there is a palatal element (the vowels i, ī, e, ē, the diphthongs ie, ei, and the palatal consonants j, ķ, ģ, ļ, ņ, š, ž, č, dž, and, in the old spelling, ŗ) either in the same or in the following syllable; otherwise, [æ] is used. Unfortunately, some historical changes have obscured this pattern by removing some previously existing palatal elements; as a result of that, for a number of words the actual pronunciation of the letter e — [ɛ] or [æ] — must be memorized.

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /æ/, /eː/, (chiefly unstressed) /ə/, /e/

Letter

E (lower case e)

A letter of the Luxembourgish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

Long /eː/ is normally spelt ee. Before a single consonant it may be spelt e, but this is restricted to internationalisms (e.g. Meter).
Apart from unstressed syllables, the pronunciation /ə/, /e/ also occurs in the function words ech; mech, dech, sech; meng, deng, seng; net. Otherwise these vowels are spelt Ë or É.

Malay

Malay Wikipedia has an article on:

E

Wikipedia ^ms

Pronunciation

(Name of letter) IPA^(key): [i]
(Phoneme 1) IPA^(key): [e], [ɛ]
(Phoneme 2) IPA^(key): [ə]

Letter

E

The fifth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Navajo

Letter

E (lower case e)

A letter of the Navajo alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Norwegian Bokmål

Letter

E (lowercase e)

The fifth letter of the Norwegian Bokmål alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Nupe

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA^(key): /e/

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

The sixth letter of the Nupe alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Polish

Etymology

The Polish orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the history of Polish orthography article on Wikipedia for more, and E for development of the glyph itself.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɛ/

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

The seventh letter of the Polish alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

Portuguese

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

The fifth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Romani

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /e/

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

(International Standard) The seventh letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.
(Pan-Vlax) The eighth letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /e/, /je/

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

The seventh letter of the Romanian alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

At the beginnings of some common words, this letter takes on the sound of /je/ as in este (/ˈje.ste/).

The digraph ea represents the diphthong /e̯a/, as in prea (/pre̯a/).

Saanich

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ə/

Letter

E

The ninth letter of the Saanich alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Scottish Gaelic

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

The fifth letter of the Scottish Gaelic alphabet, written in the Latin script. It is preceded by d and followed by f. Its traditional name is eadha (“aspen”).

Silesian

Etymology

The Silesian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Silesian language article on Wikipedia for more, and E for development of the glyph itself.

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

The seventh letter of the Silesian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /e/, /ɛ/

Letter

E (lower case e)

The tenth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Slovene

Slovene Wikipedia has an article on:

E

Wikipedia ^sl

Alternative forms

Є (Metelko alphabet)

Etymology

From Gaj's Latin alphabet E, from Czech alphabet E, from Latin E, from the Etruscan letter 𐌄 (e, “e”), from the Ancient Greek letter Ε (E, “epsilon”), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤄 (h, “he”), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓀠.

Pronunciation

(phoneme, Standard Slovene): IPA^(key): /éː/, /èː/, /ɛ́/, /ɛ́ː/, /ɛ̀ː/, /ə́/, /ə̀/, /e/, /ɛ/, [ɪ́], [ɪ̀], [é̞], [è̞]
(phoneme, Resian): IPA^(key): /ɛ/
(phoneme, Natisone Valley dialect): IPA^(key): /ɛː/, /ɛ/, /ɛ̆/
(letter name): IPA^(key): /èː/, /éː/
(letter name, archaic): IPA^(key): /ɛ́/
Audio (letter name, non-tonal): (file)
Rhymes: -eː
Homophone: e

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

The sixth letter of the Slovene alphabet, written in the Latin script.
The eighth letter of the Slovene alphabet (Resian), written in the Latin script.
The sixth letter of the Slovene alphabet (Natisone Valley dialect), written in the Latin script.

Noun

E m inan or n

The name of the Latin script letter E / e.

Usage notes

Nowadays, it is hardly ever neuter gender, so it is considered obsolete.^[1]

Inflection

Overall more common

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., soft o-stem
nom. sing.	E
gen. sing.	E-ja
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	E	E-ja	E-ji
genitive (rodȋlnik)	E-ja	E-jev	E-jev
dative (dajȃlnik)	E-ju	E-jema	E-jem
accusative (tožȋlnik)	E	E-ja	E-je
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	E-ju	E-jih	E-jih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	E-jem	E-jema	E-ji

More common when with a definite adjective

Masculine inan., no endings
nom. sing.	E
gen. sing.	E
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	E	E	E
accusative	E	E	E
genitive	E	E	E
dative	E	E	E
locative	E	E	E
instrumental	E	E	E

Obsolete

Neuter, no endings
nom. sing.	E
gen. sing.	E
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	E	E	E
accusative	E	E	E
genitive	E	E	E
dative	E	E	E
locative	E	E	E
instrumental	E	E	E

References

^ Toporišič, Jože (2000) Slovenska slovnica / Jože Toporišič. - 4. prenovljena in razširjena izd. (in Slovene), Maribor: Obzorja, →ISBN

Somali

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA^(key): /ɛ/, /e/
(letter name): IPA^(key): /ʔɛ/

Letter

E upper case (lower case e)

The twenty-fourth letter of the Somali alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

The twenty-fourth letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by A and followed by I.

Spanish

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

The fifth letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Noun

E m

Abbreviation of este; east

Swedish

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

The fifth letter of the Swedish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish E. Each pronunciation has a different source:

Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by English E.
Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by the Baybayin character ᜁ (i).
Abecedario pronunciation is from Spanish E.

Pronunciation

(Standard Tagalog)
- IPA^(key): /ˈʔi/ [ˈʔi] (letter name, Filipino alphabet)
  - Rhymes: -i
- IPA^(key): /ˈʔe/ [ˈʔɛ] (letter name, Abakada alphabet, Abecedario)
  - Rhymes: -e
- IPA^(key): /ˈe/ [ˈɛ] (phoneme, stressed or unstressed)
  - Rhymes: -e
Syllabification: E

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e, Baybayin spelling ᜁ)

The fifth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (the Filipino alphabet), called i and written in the Latin script.
The fifth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (the Abakada alphabet), called e and written in the Latin script.
(historical) The sixth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (the Abecedario), called e and written in the Latin script.

Turkish

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

The sixth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɛ˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɛ˧˧]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɛ˧˧]

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

The eighth letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

Welsh

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /eː/

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

The seventh letter of the Welsh alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script. It is preceded by Dd and followed by F.

Mutation

E cannot be mutated but, being a vowel, does take h-prothesis, for example with the word eliffant (“elephant”):

Mutated forms of *eliffant*
radical	soft	nasal	h-prothesis
eliffant	unchanged	unchanged	heliffant

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Yoruba

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA^(key): /e/
(letter name): IPA^(key): /é/

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

The fourth letter of the Yoruba alphabet, called é and written in the Latin script.

Zulu

Letter

E (upper case, lower case e)

The fifth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.