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名詞

ey (plural eyren)

1. (puristic, otherwise obsolete) An egg. [dated since the 16th century]
   • 1787, originally 1381, Liber quotidianus contrarotulatoris garderobae:

     Take brothe of capons withoute herbes, and breke eyren, and cast into the pot, and make a crudde therof, and colour hit with saffron, and then presse oute the brothe and kerve it on leches; and then take swete creme of almondes, or of cowe mylk, and boyle hit; […]

関連する語

• Cockney

語源 2

Coined by Christine M. Elverson in 1975 by removing the "th" from they.

発音

• enPR: ā, IPA: /eɪ/
• Homophone: a
• 韻: -eɪ

代名詞

ey (third-person singular, nominative case, accusative em, possessive adjective eir, possessive noun eirs, reflexive emself)

1. (rare, epicene, nonstandard) A gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, one of the so-called Spivak pronouns, equivalent to the singular they and coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
   • 1975 August 23, Judie Black, “Ey has a word for it”, in Chicago Tribune, section 1, page 12:

     Eir sentences would sound smoother since ey wouldn't clutter them with the old sexist pronouns. And if ey should trip up in the new usage, ey would only have emself to blame.

   • 1996 December 22, Shirley Worth, “New To Yoga”, in alt.yoga‎ (Usenet), message-ID <32BDCA0C.6C8@worth.org>:

     I'm not familiar with this book, but I encourage Marksmill to look for it-- and while ey is at it, to also look at a number of other books.

   • 1997 November 25, Scott Robert Dawson, “Who Pays for Cellular Calls”, in alt.cellular‎ (Usenet), message-ID <347acf56.333719@news.interlog.com>:

     If a mobile user is far from eir home area, ey will pay a long-distance fee for carriage of the call *from* eir home area, just as a caller would pay long-distance on a call *to* that area.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ey.

同意語

• e
• see Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns

語源 3

Inherited from 中期英語 ei, i, ie, from 古期英語 ēġ, īġ, īeġ, from Proto-West Germanic *auwju, from Proto-Germanic *awjō (“watery land, floodplain, island”), earlier *agwjō ~ *ahwjō (literally “(that which is) of the water”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂ (“flowing water”) +‎ *-yeh₂. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Äi, German Aue, Icelandic ey, Faroese oyggj, Swedish ö, Norwegian Bokmål øy, Norwegian Bokmål øy, Danish ø.

名詞

ey (plural eys)

1. (UK) A small island formed by the buildup of silt or gravel at the confluence of two rivers or streams.
   • 1927, Essex Naturalist, page 280:

     Now it will be seen that each of the three small streamlets named forms, at its junction with the larger river into which it flows, an ey, or island, of this latter kind — Crip's-ey, Dom's-ey, and Pin's-ey, respectively; and I suggest that, from these three eys, each of the three streams indicated derived the final element of its name.

   • 2009, Julie Wileman, War and Rumours of War, page 81:

     Runnymede Bridge is situated on an 'ey' – a small gravel islet close to the river bank.

2. A place that has a name ending in "-ey" because it is or was located at such an island.
   • 1888 January 28, Walter de Gray Birch, “WASA, ISIS, OCK”, in Academy and Literature, volume 33, number 821, page 63:

     Among the many eys, eyots, or islands, clustering about Oxford, at or near the confluence of the Isis and Cherwell, viz., Binsey, Botley, Hinksey, Iffley, Osney, Oxey, Pixey, &c., there are two, vis., Osney and Oxey, which manifestly enshrine this rivername.

   • 1924, Arthur Hadrian Allcroft, Downland Pathways, page 76:

     In Saxon the word ey meant peninsula as well as island, and there are plenty of other eys about —Langney and Hydeney and Horsey to wit, Chilly and Rickney and Northeye and Mountney.

   • 2018, Bob Gilbert, Ghost Trees: Nature and People in a London Parish:

     Bermondsey, Stepney, Hackney; there are many of these 'eys' in London and they were all once islands, or higher, dryer points in the surrounding marshlands.

関連する語

語源 4

間投詞

ey

1. Alternative form of hey.
   • 1999, Nilo Cruz, A Bicycle Country, New York, N.Y.: Dramatists Play Service, published 2004, →ISBN, act 1, scene 2, page 9:

     JULIO. (Moves away.) No walking. I told you I’m not walking. / INES. You walked yesterday after the exercises. / JULIO. I can’t today. / INES. Then I’m going outside to smoke! / JULIO. Ey, don’t get angry!

   • 2004, Helen Walsh, chapter 6, in Brass, Edinburgh: Canongate, →ISBN, pages 174–175:

     The night vault rests for a while and Tony springs to life, shifting his weight to the balls of his feet, and hurling a fusillade of punches which fall inches from my tummy. ‘Ey, ey stop that will you,’ Liam says, pulling him away from me, ‘Remember what we said about all that? A time and a place ey son?’

   • 2009, Jacob Polley, chapter 14, in Talk of the Town, London: Picador, →ISBN, pages 136–137:

     Lad? Chris – that’s yer name, isn’t it? Chris, just help a feller out, ey? I’ve got me little girl ter think of. […] There’s a mug tree stood on the counter and I check it fer hangin keyrings. Nowt. / Ey. Ey, stop that. Get outta there, yer little sod.

語源 5

名詞

ey (plural eys)

1. Obsolete form of eye.

参考

• suffix -ey
• ey up (probably etymologically unrelated)

アナグラム

• YE, Ye, ye

別の表記

• ay, aye, ei, eye, eyȝ
• æȝ (Early Middle English)

発音

• IPA: /æi̯/

名詞

ey (plural eyren or (rare) eyre)

1. egg (especially of a chicken or other fowl)

   Synonym: eg

   • 1490, William Caxton, Prologue to Eneydos:

     And one of theym […] cam in to an hows and axed for mete and specyally he axyd after eggys, and the goode wyf answerde that she could speke no Frenshe. And the marchaunt was angry, for he also coude speke no Frenshe, but wolde have hadde egges; and she understode hym not. And thenne at laste a-nother sayd that he wolde have eyren. Then the good wyf sayd that she understod hym wel. Loo, what sholde a man in thyse dayes now wryte, egges, or eyren? Certaynly it is hard to playse every man, by-cause of dyversite and chaunge of langage.

     And one of them […] came into a house and asked for food, and especially he asked for eggs; and the good woman answered that she did not speak French. And the merchant was angry, for he did not speak French either, but he wanted eggs and she did not understand him. And then at last someone else said that he wanted to have eyren. Then the good woman said that she understood him well. Oh! What should one write these days: eggs or eyren? Certainly it is hard to please everyone, because of diversity and language change.

使用する際の注意点

• Due to its rarity, it has sometimes incorrectly been asserted that the plural eyre is found nowhere in the Middle English corpus.

関連する語

• kideney

派生した語

• English: (obsolete) ey

参照

語源 2

Derived from Latin ei and Old French ahi, äi.

別の表記

• ei, i, eygh, eyghe, ye

間投詞

ey

1. An exclamation of surprise, challenge, or inquiry.

派生した語

• English: ay
• Scots: ay, ae

参照

• “ei, interj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 3

副詞

ey

1. alternative form of ay (“always”)

語源 4

名詞

ey (plural eyen)

1. alternative form of eye (“eye”)

語源 5

名詞

ey (uncountable)

1. alternative form of eye (“fear; awe”)
   • c. 1470, O lord omnipotent:

     Exhorting thy people to have a special ey, That thee to praise they never cease.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

動詞

ey

1. to awe

接尾辞

-ey

1. Alternative form of -y (adjectival suffix).

派生語

語源 2

接尾辞

-ey

1. Alternative form of -y / ie (diminutive suffix).

派生語

アナグラム

• YE, Ye, ye

接尾辞

-ey

1. alternative form of -y (“-y”)

語源 2

接尾辞

-ey

1. alternative form of -ien (infinitival suffix)