eu

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Translingual

Symbol

eu

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Basque.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Basque terms

Aromanian

Pronoun

eu

1. alternative form of io

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin ovum.

Noun

eu m (plural eus)

1. egg

Chuukese

Numeral

eu

1. one

Related terms

Corsican

Pronoun

eu

1. alternative form of eiu

References

• “eiu, eo, eu, ghjeu” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Drehu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eu/

Adverb

eu

1. when

References

• Tyron, D.T., Hackman, B. (1983) Solomon Islands languages: An internal classification. Cited in: "Dehu" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "ⁿDe’u" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

French

Etymology

From Middle French eu, from Old French eü, from Vulgar Latin *habūtus, replacing Classical Latin habitus.

The spelling, which contradicts the pronunciation, is because Middle French -eu- besides /ø/ also sometimes represented long /yː/. The latter cases were generally replaced with -û- in Early Modern French, e.g. dû, flûte for Middle French deu, fleute. However, in the case of eu and related forms the spelling û was considered awkward and so the Middle French form was preserved.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y/
• Homophones: eue, eues, eus, eut, eût, u (general), us (one pronunciation), hue, huent, hues (aspirated)

Participle

eu (feminine eue, masculine plural eus, feminine plural eues)

1. past participle of avoir

Anagrams

• UE

Galician

Alternative forms

• ieu, i-eu (after a vowel)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese eu, from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈew/, (occasionally) /ˈɛw/, /ˈɪw/, (sandhi) /ˈjew/

Pronoun

eu (after a preposition min, accusative me, dative me)

1. I

See also

• Appendix:Galician pronouns

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “eu”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “yeu”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “ieu”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “eu”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Japanese

Romanization

eu

1. Rōmaji transcription of えう

Latin

Etymology

Compare Ancient Greek εὖ (eû, “well”, adverb).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɛu̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛːu̯]

Interjection

eu

1. bravo! well done!

See also

• euge
• eugepae
• euhoe
• e͡uax

References

• “eu”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “eu”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Latvian

Interjection

eu

1. Use to draw somebody's attention

Manx

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eu/

Pronoun

eu (emphatic euish)

1. second-person plural/form of ec

   at you/ye

2. (idiomatic) your (plural)

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

eu

1. alternative form of ewe

Etymology 2

Pronoun

eu

1. (chiefly Early Middle English) alternative form of yow

Nias

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kahiw, from Proto-Austronesian *kaSiw.

Noun

eu (mutated form geu)

1. wood

References

• Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 61.

Old French

Verb

eu

1. past participle of avoir

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛw/

Pronoun

eu

1. I
   • 13th century, Cancioneiro da Ajuda, João Garcia de Guilhade, A 229: Amigos, non poss'eu negar (facsimile)

Descendants

• Eonavian: eu
• Fala: ei
• Galician: eu
• Portuguese: eu (see there for further descendants)

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• ieu
• ie (before an enclitic)

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛw/

Pronoun

eu

1. I (first-person singular subject pronoun)

Descendants

• Occitan: ieu

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• giu
• iu

Etymology

See iu.

Pronoun

eu

1. you (accusative)

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese eu, from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆. Doublet of ego.

Pronunciation

• (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): (sandhi) /ˈjew/
• (Alentejo, Algarve, Azores, Madeira) IPA^(key): (unstressed) [e]
• Hyphenation: eu

Pronoun

eu

1. I (first-person singular personal pronoun)
2. (Brazil, nonstandard, proscribed) first-person singular prepositional pronoun; me

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:eu.

Derived terms

• euzinho / euzinha (diminutive)

See also

Noun

eu m (plural eus)

1. (chiefly philosophy) ego; self (individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness)

   Synonym: ego

Derived terms

• eu lírico

Related terms

• ego

Interjection

eu!

1. Used to draw attention to oneself after having their name called.

Descendants

• Barranquian: ê
• Kristang: yo
• Macanese: iou, io, ieu

Romanian

Alternative forms

• eŭ — old orthography
• io — colloquial

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (pronoun) /jew/, (noun) /ew/
• IPA^(key): (pronoun, colloquial) /jo/
• Rhymes: -ew
• Hyphenation: eu

Pronoun

eu

1. (nominative form) I

Declension

See also

Noun

eu n (plural euri)

1. ego

Declension

Romansch

Pronoun

eu (Vallader)

1. alternative form of jau (“I”)

Sassarese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeu/

Pronoun

eu

1. alternative form of éiu: I

See also

References

• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• jeu (paroxytone, diphthongozed)
• ju (oxytone doublet)
• jo (o-coloured variant, dialectal (possible italianism/hiberism))
• ia (Gallo-italic of Sicily, dialectal)
• iu (italianism, dialectal)
• jù, jèu, jò, ìa, ìu (non-standard, redundant discritics)

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆. Cognate with Aromanian iou, Corsican eiu, French je, Italian and Neapolitan io, Catalan jo, Galician and Portuguese eu, Romanian eu, Spanish yo, Sardinian ego. Doublet of ju.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛu/, [ˈɛ.ʊ], [ˈɛw], [ˈjɛ.ʊ]
• Hyphenation: è‧u

Pronoun

eu

1. (first person singular pronoun) I

   Eu sacciu lèggiri 'n sicilianu. ― I can read Sicilian.

Inflection

See also

• tu
• iḍḍu, iḍḍa
• nui, nuiautri
• vui, vuiautri
• iḍḍi

Welsh

Alternative forms

• 'u (after vowels)
• 'w (after the preposition i)

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ei̯/
  • (colloquial) IPA^(key): /iː/, /ɪ/
• Homophone: ei
• Rhymes: -ei̯

Usage notes

• Despite being written as u, the vowel here is /i̯/ in north Wales, making it homophonous with singular ei in all varieties of the spoken language.

Determiner

eu (triggers h-prothesis of a following vowel)

1. their

Pronoun

eu (triggers h-prothesis of a following vowel)

1. them (as the direct object of a verbal noun)

Usage notes

• Nhw is often added after the noun or verbnoun which eu precedes. In formal language, this is done to emphasise the determiner or pronoun. In colloquial language, it is not necessarily an indicator of emphasis, and is often included with the determiner and always included with the pronoun. The exception to the latter case is in passive constructions employing cael, where nhw is never used.
• In formal Welsh, the contraction ’u is a valid form of eu found after mostly functional vowel-final words. In colloquial Welsh, eu is often contracted to ’u after almost any vowel-final word.
• Pronomial eu and ’u can occur before any verbal noun. Before a verb, pronomial ’u is found only in formal language after certain vowel-final preverbal particles. See entry for ’u for more information.

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “eu”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Yoruba

Alternative forms

• owú

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ē.ú/

Noun

eú

1. (Ekiti) anvil

Zhuang

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ʔeːu˨˦/
• Tone numbers: eu¹
• Hyphenation: eu

Etymology 1

Verb

eu (1957–1982 spelling eu)

1. to sing (a folk song)

Etymology 2

Adjective

eu (1957–1982 spelling eu)

1. weak; frail; feeble