# ea
## English
### Etymology 1

From Middle English ee, ea, æ, from Old English ēa (“river”), from Proto-West Germanic *ahu (“waters, river”), from Proto-Germanic *ahwō (“waters, river”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂ (“water, flowing water”). Doublet of aqua.
Cognate with North Frisian ia (“river”), Saterland Frisian Äi (“river”), West Frisian ie (“water, stream”), Dutch a (“water, stream”), German Ache (“water, stream, river, flood”), Danish å (“stream, creek”), Swedish å (“stream, creek”), Icelandic á (“stream, river”), Latin aqua (“water”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈiː(ə)/
* Rhymes: -iː, -iːə

#### Noun

ea (plural eas)
* (UK dialect or archaic) A river or watercourse.
** 1866, Charles Kingsley, Hereward the Wake: Last of the English:And they rowed away for Crowland, by many a mere and many an ea; through narrow reaches of clear brown glassy water; between the dark-green alders; between the pale-green reeds; where the coot clanked, and the bittern boomed, and the sedge-bird, not content with its own sweet song, mocked the song of all the birds around; and then out into the broad lagoons, where hung motionless, high overhead, hawk beyond hawk, buzzard beyond buzzard, kite beyond kite, as far as eye could see.

##### Derived terms

* eddy

##### Related terms

* Eau
* eau
* yeo

### Etymology 2

Abbreviation.

#### Determiner

ea
* Alternative form of ea.

### References

* “ea”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

### Anagrams

* -ae, -æ, A & E, A&E, AE, a**e, a.e., ae, æ

## Äiwoo
### Adjective

ea
* bad, evil

### References

* Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

## Aromanian
### Alternative forms

* ia

### Etymology

From Latin illa, feminine of ille. Compare Romanian ea.

### Pronoun

ea f (plural eali)
* (third-person feminine singular pronoun, nominative form) she

#### Synonyms

* nãsã/nãsa

### Pronoun

ea f
* (long/stressed accusative form) her

#### Related terms

* el/elu (masculine equivalent (third-person singular nominative))
* eali (feminine plural), elj (masculine or mixed plural)
* u (feminine singular accusative- short/unstressed form)
* (a) ljei (feminine singular genitive and feminine singular dative- long/stressed form)
* ãlj/ilj/lji (feminine singular dative- short/unstressed form)

### See also

* io/iou, mini (first-person singular)
* tu, tini (second-person singular)
* noi (first-person plural)
* voi (second-person plural)
* nãsh, elj (third-person (masculine or mixed) plural)

## Basque
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ea/ [e.a]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ea, -a
* Hyphenation: e‧a

### Particle

ea
* Used in indirect questions as an intensifier.
    Ea nork egin dituen etxeko lanak. ― Let's see who has done the homework.
* Used to express one's desire; I hope, I wish
    Ea azkar sendatzen zaren. ― I hope you get well soon.

#### Usage notes

* When using this particle, the verb takes the conjunction -n.

### Further reading

* “ea”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
* “ea”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

## Estonian
### Noun

ea
* genitive singular of iga

## Hawaiian
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *eqa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈe.a/, [ˈɛ.jə]

### Noun

ea
* sovereignty, rule
* air, breath, gas, vapor
* life, life force

### Verb

ea
* (intransitive) to rise, go up
* (intransitive) to smell

### References

* Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “ea”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press

## Irish
### Alternative forms

* eadh (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Old Irish ed (“it”). Ultimately akin to English it, Latin id, etc.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a/, (after ba) /ja/

### Pronoun

ea
* it

#### Usage notes

* Only used with the copula, in constructions that do not reference any noun.

#### Derived terms

* mar ea
* ní hea
* sea

#### See also

$^L$ Triggers lenition   $^E$ Triggers eclipsis   $^H$ Triggers h-prothesis
$^1$ Also used as the vocative
The reflexive is formed by adding féin to the relevant pronoun. For instance, "myself" = mé féin, "yourselves" = sibh féin.

## Korean
### Alternative forms

* 개 (gae), and other unitary bound nouns (권, 자루, 켤레, etc)

### Etymology

From English ea. (“whole piece”).

### Symbol

ea • (ea)
* symbol of 개 (gae, “item, piece, general counter for objects”).
    총 10ea.
    5ea 정도.

## Latin
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *íh₂.

#### Pronunciation

* ea: (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈe.a/, [ˈeä]
* ea: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈe.a/, [ˈɛːä]
* eā: (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈe.aː/, [ˈeäː]
* eā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈe.a/, [ˈɛːä]

#### Pronoun

ea
* nominative feminine singular of is: "she", "it" (referring to feminine nouns), or demonstratively (as a demonstrative pronoun) "this", "that" (likewise referring to feminine nouns)
* nominative neuter plural of is: "they (things)"
* accusative neuter plural of is: "them (things)"

#### Pronoun

eā f
* ablative feminine singular of is

##### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### See also
### Etymology 2

Declined from is. It stands as if for eā viā ("this/that way"). Compare eō.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈe.aː/, [ˈeäː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈe.a/, [ˈɛːä]

#### Adverb

eā (not comparable)
* there
* that way
* on that side

##### Derived terms

* eāpropter
* eātenus

##### Related terms

| type | demonstrative | demonstrative | demonstrative | anaphoric | identity | interrogative/ relative | indefinite | indefinite | indefinite | indefinite | indefinite | negative | other |
| type | proximal | medial | distal | anaphoric | identity | interrogative/ relative | relative | indefinite | free choice | universal | negative polarity | negative | other |
| basic | hic | iste, istic | ille, illic | is | ipse, īdem | quis/quī | quisquis, quīcumque | quis, quī, quīdam, aliquis, aliquī, quispiam | quīvis, quīlibet | quisque | quisquam, ūllus, °aliquisquam | nēmō, nihil, nūllus | alius |
| dual | | | | | | uter | utercumque | alteruter | utervīs, uterlibet | uterque | | neuter | alter |
| place | hīc | istīc | illīc | ibī̆ | ibī̆dem | ubī̆ | ubiubi, ubī̆cumque | alicubī, uspiam | ubivīs, ubilibet | ubīque | usquam | nusquam, nūllibī | alibī, aliās |
| source | hinc | istinc | illinc | inde | indidem | unde | undecumque, undeunde | alicunde | °undelibet | undique | | | aliunde |
| destination | hūc, °hōrsum | istūc, °istōrsum | illūc, °illōrsum | eō | eōdem | quō, quōrsum | quōquō, quōcumque | aliquō, quōpiam, °aliquōvorsum | quōvīs, quōlibet | | quōquam | nusquam, nūllōrsum | aliō, aliōrsum |
| method, means, path, place | hāc | istāc | illāc | eā | eādem | quā | quāquā, quācumque | aliquā | quāvīs, quālibet | quāque | | nēquāquam, haudquāquam | aliā |
| manner | hōc modō | istō modō | illō modō | ita, sīc, eō modō | item, itidem | ut, quī, quō modō, quōmodo, quemadmodum | utut, utcumque, quōmodocumque | quī, quōdam modō, aliquō modō | quōmodolibet | utīque | ūllō modō | nūllō modō | aliter, aliōquī, alterō/aliō modō |
| time | num, nunc | | ōlim | tum, tunc | simul | quandō, ‡cum | cumque, quandōcumque, quandōque | quondam, aliquandō | quandōlibet | quandōque | umquam | numquam | aliās |
| quantity | | | | tam | †tamen, †tandem | quam | †quamquam | aliquam | quamvīs, quamlibet | | | | |
| size | | | | tantus | tantusdem | quantus | quantuscumque | aliquantus | quantusvīs, quantuslibet | | | | |
| quality | | | | tālis | | quālis | quālis, quāliscumque | aliquālis | quālislibet | | | | |
| number | | | | tot | totidem | quot | quotquot, quotcumque | aliquot | quotlibet | | | | |
| order | | | | totus | | quotus | quotuscumque | aliquotus | quotuslibet | | | | |
| repetition | | | | totiēns | | quotiēns | quotiēnscumque | aliquotiēns | quotiēnslibet | | | | |
| multiplication | | | | totuplex | | quotuplex | | | | | | | |
| † Turned conjunction with original meaning somewhat dissimulated ° Rare ‡only used as a conjunction, not as an interrogative ||||||||||||||

### References

* “ea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* ea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. the vegetable kingdom: ea, quae terra gignit the vegetable kingdom: ea, quae e terra gignuntur the vegetable kingdom: ea, quae a terra stirpibus continentur the vegetable kingdom: ea quorum stirpes terra continentur (N. D. 2. 10. 26) eastern, western Germany: Germania quae or Germaniae ea pars quae, ad orientem, occidentem vergit to be of such and such an age: ea aetate, id aetatis esse this is our natural tendency, our destiny; nature compels us: ita (ea lege, ea condicione) nati sumus all depends on this; this is the decisive point: in ea re omnia vertuntur with the intention of..: eo consilio, ea mente, ut on condition of..: ea lege, ut what is your opinion: quid de ea re fieri placet? (ambiguous) I blame this in you; I censure you for this: hoc in te reprehendo (not ob eam rem) (ambiguous) to happen to think of..: in eam cogitationem incidere (ambiguous) to induce a person to think that..: aliquem ad eam cogitationem adducere ut (ambiguous) to discuss a subject more fully on the same lines: plura in eam sententiam disputare (ambiguous) peace is concluded on condition that..: pax convenit in eam condicionem, ut...
* Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)

## Lindu
### Adjective

ea
* shy; ashamed

## Middle English
### Noun

ea
* (Early Middle English) Alternative form of ee

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /æ͜ɑː/

### Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *ahu, from Proto-Germanic *ahwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂ (“water”).

#### Alternative forms

* ǣ
* *ēo

#### Noun

ēa f (nominative plural ēa or ēan)
* river
** late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
    Þonne west fram Tigris þǣre ēa oþ Eufrate þā ēa, þonne betweox þǣm ēan syndon þās land Babylonia, and Caldea, and Mesopotamia.Then west from the River Tigris to the River Euphrates, then between the rivers are the lands of Babylon, Chaldea, and Mesopotamia
* running water, stream

##### Usage notes

* Regarding declension, ēa is usually indeclinable, but occasionally inflected forms are encountered.

##### Descendants

* Middle English: ee, æ, ea, eaa (Early Middle English), *eo
** English: ea, Eau, eau, yeo
* ⇒ Old English: edēa (with prefix ed-)
** Middle English: eddy
*** English: eddy

##### See also

* gārseċġ (“ocean”)
* mere (“lake”)
* sǣ (“sea”)
* strēam (“stream”)

### Etymology 2

Uncertain. Perhaps from earlier *eah, *æh, from Proto-West Germanic *a, *ah (“ah”), related to Old High German a, ah (“ah”). Alternatively from Proto-West Germanic *au, cognate with Old High German au, ō (“oh, ah”).

#### Alternative forms

* ēaw, ǣa, ǣ, ē, *hē, hiġ

#### Interjection

ēa
* oh, alas

##### Derived terms

* ēalā

##### Descendants

* >? Middle English: a, aa, ah
** English: ah
** Scots: ah

## Romanian
### Alternative forms

* я (ia) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling
* éa — pre-1904 spelling reform

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin illa, feminine of ille.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ja/, (hypercorrect) /e̯a/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -a
* Homophone: ia

### Pronoun

ea f (third-person singular, plural ele, masculine equivalent el)
* (nominative form) she
    Synonym: (polite form) dumneaei

#### Declension
### Pronoun

ea f (stressed accusative form of ea)
* (direct object, preceded by preposition, such as "pe", "cu", "la", or "pentru") her

#### Related terms

* el (third-person masculine singular)
* ei (third-person masculine plural)
* ele (third-person feminine plural)

#### See also
### References

* ea in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Romansch
### Alternative forms

* gea (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)
* gie (Sursilvan)
* schi (Puter, Vallader)

### Adverb

ea
* (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) yes (used to indicate agreement with a positive statement)

#### Related terms

* (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader) bain
* (Sursilvan) bein
* (Sutsilvan) bagn
* (Surmiran) gea bagn
* (Puter, Vallader) bainschi, hei, bainschi hei
* (Vallader) hai, bainschi hai

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin ēia.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈea/ [ˈe.a]
* Rhymes: -ea
* Syllabification: e‧a

### Interjection

¡ea!
* come on!, come now! (expressing encouragement)
* so, and so, now (expressing resolution, preceding a willful resolution)

### Further reading

* “ea”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## West Frisian
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɪə̯/

### Adverb

ea
* (literary) ever, at any time

#### Further reading

* “ea”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011