эй

Borrowed from Russian эй (ej).

• IPA^(key): /ej/
• Rhymes: -ej
• Hyphenation: эй

эй • (ej)

1. hey!
2. oh!, ah! (expresses surprise, delight, sadness, pain, regret, disappointment, reproach, concern, etc.)

эй • (ej)

1. emphatic particle

   вараш кодаш огыл манын, эй куржам, эй куржам

   varaš kodaš ogyl manyn, ej kuržam, ej kuržam

   I don't want to be late, I'm off and running

• J. Bradley et al. (2023) “эй”, in The Mari Web Project: Mari-English Dictionary, University of Vienna

From Proto-Mordvinic *jäj~*jäŋ, from Proto-Uralic *jäŋe. Cognates include Moksha эй (ej), Finnish jää, Livonian jeij, Northern Sami jiekŋa, Eastern Mari ий (ij), Hungarian jég.

эй • (ej)

1. ice

   кельме теке эй ― keľme teke ej ― cold as ice

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

• V. I. Ščankina (2011) Russko-mokšansko-erzjanskij slovarʹ [Russian-Moksha-Erzya Dictionary], Saransk, →ISBN
• Entry #171 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
• Keresztes, László (1986) Geschichte der mordwinischen Konsonantismus II. Etymologisches Belegmaterial‎^[1], Szeged: Studia Uralo-Altaica 26.

Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *ej (“tongue”).

эй (ɛ̄j, ɛ̀j)

1. tongue

From Proto-Mordvinic *jäɣ from Proto-Uralic *jäŋe. Compare Proto-Uralic *jäkšV (“cold or cool”). Cognates include Erzya эй (ej), Finnish jää, Livonian jeij, Northern Sami jiekŋa and Hungarian jég.

эй • (äj)

1. ice

• V. I. Ščankina (2011) Russko-mokšansko-erzjanskij slovarʹ [Russian-Moksha-Erzya Dictionary], Saransk, →ISBN

From Proto-Tungusic *eri, compare Evenki эр (ər), Manchu ᡝᡵᡝ (ere).

эй (ey)

1. this

• IPA^(key): [ɛj]

эй • (ej)

1. hey! (you, there!)

• → Eastern Mari: эй (ej)

Borrowed from English a.

эй • (ej) n inan (indeclinable)

1. (English letter) A, a