Ey meaning

Clayey, gooey.

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Alternative form of -y.
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Alternative form of -ie.
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Old Norse suffix for placenames meaning "island", like in Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney or Surtsey (see ey).
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(obsolete) An egg.
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An island.
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(neologism) They (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
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Origin of ey

From Middle English ey, from Old English ǣġ ("egg"; ǣġru in the plural), from Proto-Germanic *ajjÄ…, *ajjaz (“egg"), from Proto-Indo-European *ōuyo-, *h₂ōwyóm (“egg"). Cognate with West Frisian aai (“egg"), Dutch ei (“egg"), German Low German Ei (“egg"), German Ei (“egg"), Danish æg (“egg"), Swedish ägg (“egg"), Icelandic egg (“egg"), Scottish Gaelic ugh (“egg"), Latin ōvum (“egg"). Was replaced by egg in the 16th century.

Sentence Examples

  • Putting arrows on the frame diagram to indicate the direction of the forces, we see that the member EY must pull and therefore act as a tie, and that the member XE must push and act as a strut.

  • When the solutions may be taken as effectively dilute, so that the gas laws apply to the osmotic pressure, this relation reduces to E _ nrRT to c1 ey gE c2 where n is the number of ions given by one molecule of the salt, r the transport ratio of the anion, R the gas constant, T the absolute temperature, y the total valency of the anions obtained from one molecule, and c i and c 2 the concentrations of the two solutions.

  • 13 C figure of the three lines YX, XE, EY in the frame, and represents the three forces in equilibrium at the point YXE of the frame.

  • The direction of YX, being a thrust upwards, shows the direction in which we must go round the triangle YXE to find the direction of the two other forces; doing this we find that the force XE must act down towards the point YXE, and the force EY away from the same point.

  • The very names of the islands indicate their nature, for the terminal a or ay is the Norse ey, meaning "island," which is scarcely disguised even in the words Pomona and Hoy.

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