See ey in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1996 December 22, Shirley Worth, “New To Yoga”, in alt.yoga (Usenet), message-ID <32BDCA0C.6C8@worth.org>:",
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"17": "",
"18": "",
"19": "",
"2": "pronoun",
"20": "",
"3": "third-person singular, nominative case",
"4": "",
"5": "accusative",
"6": "em",
"7": "possessive adjective",
"8": "eir",
"9": "possessive noun",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "ey (third-person singular, nominative case, accusative em, possessive adjective eir, possessive noun eirs, reflexive emself)",
"name": "head"
},
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"1": "accusative",
"2": "em",
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"4": "eir",
"5": "possessive noun",
"6": "eirs",
"7": "reflexive",
"8": "emself",
"desc": "third-person singular, nominative case"
},
"expansion": "ey (third-person singular, nominative case, accusative em, possessive adjective eir, possessive noun eirs, reflexive emself)",
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}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "pron",
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{
"categories": [
"English nonstandard terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with rare senses"
],
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{
"ref": "1975 August 23, Judie Black, “Ey has a word for it”, in Chicago Tribune, section 1, page 12:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1996 December 22, Shirley Worth, “New To Yoga”, in alt.yoga (Usenet), message-ID <32BDCA0C.6C8@worth.org>:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1997 November 25, Scott Robert Dawson, “Who Pays for Cellular Calls”, in alt.cellular (Usenet), message-ID <347acf56.333719@news.interlog.com>:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"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."
],
"links": [
[
"gender-neutral",
"gender-neutral#English"
],
[
"Spivak pronouns",
"w:Spivak pronouns"
],
[
"they",
"they#English"
],
[
"he",
"he#English"
],
[
"she",
"she#English"
]
],
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"(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."
],
"tags": [
"epicene",
"nominative",
"nonstandard",
"rare",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "ā"
},
{
"ipa": "/eɪ/"
},
{
"homophone": "a"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪ"
}
],
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{
"word": "e"
}
],
"word": "ey"
}
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
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"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Old English",
"English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₂ékʷeh₂",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Old English",
"English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"English third person pronouns",
"Pages with 13 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Fear",
"en:Gender"
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"expansion": "Inherited from Middle English ei",
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"args": {
"1": "en",
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{
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"4": "",
"5": "flowing water"
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},
{
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"1": "ine-pro",
"2": "",
"3": "*-yos",
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},
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"name": "suf"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Inherited from Middle English ei, i, ie, from Old English 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.",
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{
"form": "eys",
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]
}
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{
"word": "ea"
},
{
"word": "eyot"
},
{
"word": "island"
}
],
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{
"categories": [
"British English",
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],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1927, Essex Naturalist, page 280:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Julie Wileman, War and Rumours of War, page 81:",
"text": "Runnymede Bridge is situated on an 'ey' – a small gravel islet close to the river bank.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"A small island formed by the buildup of silt or gravel at the confluence of two rivers or streams."
],
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"island",
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[
"buildup",
"buildup"
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"silt",
"silt"
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[
"gravel",
"gravel"
],
[
"confluence",
"confluence"
],
[
"river",
"river"
],
[
"stream",
"stream"
]
],
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"(UK) A small island formed by the buildup of silt or gravel at the confluence of two rivers or streams."
],
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"UK"
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},
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"English terms with quotations"
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"ref": "1888 January 28, Walter de Gray Birch, “WASA, ISIS, OCK”, in Academy and Literature, volume 33, number 821, page 63:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1924, Arthur Hadrian Allcroft, Downland Pathways, page 76:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2018, Bob Gilbert, Ghost Trees: Nature and People in a London Parish:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"A place that has a name ending in \"-ey\" because it is or was located at such an island."
]
}
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
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"word": "suffix -ey"
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"english": "probably etymologically unrelated",
"word": "ey up"
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"word": "eye"
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],
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