• Ey

    Origin 1

    From Middle English ey, from Old English ǣġ ("egg"; ǣġru in the plural), from Proto-Germanic *ajją, *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.

    Full definition of ey

    Noun

    ey

    (plural eyren)
    (obsolete since the sixteenth century)
    1. (obsolete) an egg

    Origin 2

    Compare eyot.

    Noun

    ey

    (plural eys)
    1. An island.

    Pronunciation

    • enPR: ā, IPA: /eɪ/
    • Homophones: a
    • Rhymes: -eɪ

    Origin 3

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

    Pronoun

    ey

    (third-person singular, epicene, nominative caseaccusative - empossessive adjective - eirpossessive noun - eirsreflexive - emself)
    1. (neologism) they singular. gender-neutral

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