ė

See also: Appendix:Variations of "e"

ė U+0117, ė LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DOT ABOVE Composition: e [U+0065] + ◌̇ [U+0307] ← Ė [U+0116] Latin Extended-A Ę → [U+0118]

Translingual

Symbol

ė

1. (UPA) A close e vowel.

English

Symbol

ė

1. (lexicography) Indicates the HAPPY vowel (final vowel of happy).
2. (lexicography, dated) An element of the digraph ⟨ėr⟩, indicating the NURSE vowel.

Synonyms

(NURSE vowel): ûr, ʉr

Cheyenne

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i̥/

Letter

ė (upper case Ė)

1. A letter of the Cheyenne alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Lithuanian

Etymology

Coined by Daniel Klein in 1653 for Grammatica Litvanica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eː/

Letter

ė (upper case Ė)

1. The ninth letter of the Lithuanian alphabet, called ė and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) A a, Ą ą, B b, C c, Č č, D d, E e, Ę ę, Ė ė, F f, G g, H h, I i, Į į, Y y, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, R r, S s, Š š, T t, U u, Ų ų, Ū ū, V v, Y y, Z z, Ž ž

Lower Sorbian

Letter

ė (upper case Ė)

1. (obsolete) A letter formerly used to represent the sound /ɪ/, now replaced by the letter ě.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) pismik; A a, B b, C c, Č č, Ć ć, D d, E e, Ě ě, F f, G g, H h, Ch ch, I i, J j, K k, Ł ł, L l, M m, N n, Ń ń, O o (Ó ó), P p, R r, Ŕ ŕ, S s, Š š, Ś ś, T t, U u, W w, Y y, Z z, Ž ž, Ź ź
• (obsolete letters) B́ b́, Ė ė, Ḿ ḿ, Ṅ ṅ, Ṕ ṕ, Ṙ ṙ, ſ, ß, Ꞩ ẜ, Ẃ ẃ, Ẇ ẇ, Ż ż

Samogitian

Etymology 1

Letter

ė (upper case Ė)

1. The ninth letter of the Samogitian alphabet, called ė̄ and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) A a, Ā ā, B b, C c, Č č, D d, E e, Ē ē, Ė ė, Ė̄ ė̄, F f, G g, H h, I i, Ī ī, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, Ō ō, P p, R r, S s, Š š, T t, U u, Ū ū, V v, Z z, Ž ž

Etymology 2

Compare Lithuanian ir.

Alternative forms

• ėr

Conjunction

ė

1. and

   Petnīčė īr dėina nedielie terp ketverga ė sobatas.

   Friday is the day of the week between Thursday and Saturday.

Slovene

Etymology 1

Letter e with dot above (◌̇) to signify a lot more close vowel.

Pronunciation

• (sound, unofficial): IPA^(key): [ɪ͈]

Symbol

ė

1. (dialectal transcription) Phonetic transcription of tense sound between [e] and [i].

Usage notes

Although by the description, the corresponding IPA representation should be approximately [ɪ͈], no equivalent IPA representation is given in the source.

Etymology 2

Letter e with dot above (◌̇) to signify an extra short vowel.

Pronunciation

• (Natisone Valley dialect, phoneme): IPA^(key): /ĕ/

Letter

ė (lower case, usually not in upper case)

1. (Natisone Valley dialect) Additional letter, used in some words to denote the extra-short stress on e.

See also

• ë
• ē
• è
• é
• ê
• ȩ
• ɛ
• ḙ
• ė
• ẹ
• ə

References

• Kenda-Jež, Karmen (2017 February 27) Fonetična trankripcija [Phonetic transcription]‎^[1] (in Slovene), Znanstvenoraziskovalni center SAZU, Inštitut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša, archived from the original on January 22, 2022, pages 27–30
• Špehonja, Nino (2012) Nediška gramatika‎^[2] (in Italian), Poligrafice San Marco