eu

eu

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Basque.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Basque terms

eu

1. alternative form of io

From Latin ovum.

eu m (plural eus)

1. egg

eu

1. one

eu

1. alternative form of eiu

• “eiu, eo, eu, ghjeu” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

• IPA^(key): /eu/

eu

1. when

• Tyron, D.T., Hackman, B. (1983) Solomon Islands languages: An internal classification. Cited in: "Dehu" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "ⁿDe’u" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

From Middle French eu, from Old French eü, from Vulgar Latin *habūtus, replacing Classical Latin habitus.

The spelling, which contradicts the pronunciation, is because Middle French -eu- besides /ø/ also sometimes represented long /yː/. The latter cases were generally replaced with -û- in Early Modern French, e.g. dû, flûte for Middle French deu, fleute. However, in the case of eu and related forms the spelling û was considered awkward and so the Middle French form was preserved.

• IPA^(key): /y/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: eue, eues, eus, eut, eût, u (general), us (one pronunciation), hue, huent, hues (aspirated)

eu (feminine eue, masculine plural eus, feminine plural eues)

1. past participle of avoir

• UE

• ieu, i-eu (after a vowel)

From Old Galician-Portuguese eu, from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆.

• IPA^(key): /ˈew/, (occasionally) /ˈɛw/, /ˈɪw/, (sandhi) /ˈjew/

• Audio:

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eu (after a preposition min, accusative me, dative me)

1. I
   • 1399, M. González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 580:

     Saban todos que yeu Fernan Martinez, Clerigo rector da Yglesia de San Thomas da pescaria da Vila da Cruña

     Everyone know this, that I Fernán Martinez, rector cleric of the church of Saint Tomas, of the Pescaría (fishery) of the Town of A Coruña

• Appendix:Galician pronouns

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “eu”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “yeu”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “ieu”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “eu”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

eu

1. Rōmaji transcription of えう

Compare Ancient Greek εὖ (eû, “well”, adverb).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɛu̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛːu̯]

eu

1. bravo! well done!

• euge
• eugepae
• euhoe
• e͡uax

• “eu”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “eu”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

eu

1. Use to draw somebody's attention

• IPA^(key): /eu/

eu (emphatic euish)

1. second-person plural/form of ec

   at you/ye

2. (idiomatic) your (plural)

eu

1. alternative form of ewe

eu

1. (chiefly Early Middle English) alternative form of yow

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kahiw, from Proto-Austronesian *kaSiw.

eu (mutated form geu)

1. wood

• Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 61.

eu

1. past participle of avoir

Inherited from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛw/

eu

1. I
   • 13th century, Cancioneiro da Ajuda, João Garcia de Guilhade, A 229: Amigos, non poss'eu negar (facsimile)

     [O]s ollos uerdes que eu ui / me façen ora andar aſſi.

     The green eyes which I have seen / have made me now be like this.

• Eonavian: eu
• Fala: ei
• Galician: eu
• Portuguese: eu (see there for further descendants)

• ieu
• ie (before an enclitic)

Inherited from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆.

• IPA^(key): /ɛw/

eu

1. I (first-person singular subject pronoun)

• Occitan: ieu

• giu
• iu

See iu.

eu

1. you (accusative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese eu, from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆. Doublet of ego.

• (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): (sandhi) /ˈjew/
• (Alentejo, Algarve, Azores, Madeira) IPA^(key): (unstressed) [e]

• Audio (Brazil):

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• Audio (Northeast Brazil):

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• Audio (Northern Portugal):

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• Hyphenation: eu

eu

1. I (first-person singular personal pronoun)
   • 2005, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 184:

     Eu estava na esperança de encontrá-lo antes do jantar!

     I was hoping to meet you before dinner!

2. (Brazil, nonstandard, proscribed) first-person singular prepositional pronoun; me

For quotations using this term, see Citations:eu.

• euzinho / euzinha (diminutive)

eu m (plural eus)

1. (chiefly philosophy) ego; self (individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness)

   Synonym: ego

• eu lírico

• ego

eu!

1. Used to draw attention to oneself after having their name called.

   Dr. Hélio? – Eu!

   Dr. Hélio? – Here!

• Barranquian: ê
• Kristang: yo
• Macanese: iou, io, ieu

• eŭ — old orthography
• io — colloquial

Inherited from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆.

• IPA^(key): (pronoun) /jew/, (noun) /ew/
• IPA^(key): (pronoun, colloquial) /jo/
• Rhymes: -ew
• Hyphenation: eu

• Audio:

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eu

1. (nominative form) I

eu n (plural euri)

1. ego

eu (Vallader)

1. alternative form of jau (“I”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈeu/

eu

1. alternative form of éiu: I
   • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Primabéra [Springtime]”, in La poesia di l'althri [The poetry of others], Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 13:

     […] guasi guasi credu
     chi podaristhia eu puru
     o dubaristhia
     nascì torra. […]

     I almost believe that I, too, can, or should, be born again.

   • 2020 March 25, Ignazio Sanna, “Di nomme fozzu Asdrubale [My name is Asdrubale]”, in Ignazio Sanna - Prosa e poesia in sassarese‎^[1]:

     Faccisigàddu, diggu grazie a Firumèna chi s’alluntàna e s’arròmba a lu muru; eu a lu muru d’aócci.

     Embarrassed, I thank Filomena, who distances herself, and leans on the wall; I [lean] to the opposite wall.

• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

• jeu (paroxytone, diphthongized)
• ju (oxytone doublet)
• jo (o-coloured variant, dialectal (possible italianism/hispanism))
• ia (Gallo-italic of Sicily, dialectal)
• iu (italianism, dialectal)
• jù, jèu, jò, ìa, ìu (non-standard, redundant discritics)

Inherited from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆. Cognate with Aromanian iou, Corsican eiu, French je, Italian and Neapolitan io, Catalan jo, Galician and Portuguese eu, Romanian eu, Spanish yo, Sardinian ego. Doublet of ju.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛu/, [ˈɛ.ʊ], [ˈɛw], [ˈjɛ.ʊ]
• Hyphenation: è‧u

eu

1. (first person singular pronoun) I

   Eu sacciu lèggiri 'n sicilianu. ― I can read Sicilian.

• tu
• iḍḍu, iḍḍa
• nui, nuiautri
• vui, vuiautri
• iḍḍi

• 'u (after vowels)
• 'w (after the preposition i)

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ei̯/
  • (colloquial) IPA^(key): /iː/, /ɪ/
• Homophone: ei
• Rhymes: -ei̯

• Despite being written as u, the vowel here is /i̯/ in north Wales, making it homophonous with singular ei in all varieties of the spoken language.

eu (triggers h-prothesis of a following vowel)

1. their

   Cwynent am eu blinder a’u hafiechyd.

   They complained of their weariness and their illness.

eu (triggers h-prothesis of a following vowel)

1. them (as the direct object of a verbal noun)

   Rhaid sganio’r ffeiliau cyn eu hagor a’u harchwilio.

   You have to scan the files before opening them and exploring them.

• Nhw is often added after the noun or verbnoun which eu precedes. In formal language, this is done to emphasise the determiner or pronoun. In colloquial language, it is not necessarily an indicator of emphasis, and is often included with the determiner and always included with the pronoun. The exception to the latter case is in passive constructions employing cael, where nhw is never used.
• In formal Welsh, the contraction ’u is a valid form of eu found after mostly functional vowel-final words. In colloquial Welsh, eu is often contracted to ’u after almost any vowel-final word.
• Pronomial eu and ’u can occur before any verbal noun. Before a verb, pronomial ’u is found only in formal language after certain vowel-final preverbal particles. See entry for ’u for more information.

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “eu”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

• owú

• IPA^(key): /ē.ú/

eú

1. (Ekiti) anvil

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ʔeːu˨˦/
• Tone numbers: eu¹
• Hyphenation: eu

eu (1957–1982 spelling eu)

1. to sing (a folk song)

eu (1957–1982 spelling eu)

1. weak; frail; feeble