ew

See also: EW, Ew, and -ew

English

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic, ideophonic. Compare oh, ugh.

Alternative forms

• eww, euw, ieuw, ehw

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiː.uː/, /iːu̯/, /(j)ɪu̯/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -uː

Interjection

ew (with as many extra ‘e’s and/or ‘w’s as needed for emphasis)

1. Expression of disgust or nausea.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:yuck

   Ew! There’s a fly in my soup.

   Ew! This peanut butter tastes disgusting!

Derived terms

• ewphoria
• ewwie
• ewwy

Related terms

• pew

Translations

expression of disgust or nausea

• Arabic: يَع (yaʕ)

  Gulf Arabic: يع (yaʕ), ويع (wēʕ)

  Hijazi Arabic: يِع (yiʕ)

• Assamese: ছিঃ (sih)
• Breton: ec'h (br)
• Catalan: ecs (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 惡心 / 恶心 (zh) (ěxin), (strong, offensive) 呸 (zh) (pēi), 啐 (zh) (cuì), 哎呀 (zh) (āiyā), 哎 (zh) (āi), 唉 (zh) (ài)

• Czech: fuj (cs)
• Danish: uf, fy, øv
• Dutch: bah (nl)
• Esperanto: aĉ (eo)
• Finnish: hyi (fi), yök (fi), yäk (fi), yh (fi)
• French: beurk (fr)
• German: igitt (de), pfui (de)
• Greek: μπλιάχ (bliách)

  Ancient: ψό (psó)

• Hebrew: איכס (he) (ikhs), איכסה (he) (íkhsa), פוי (he) (fuy), פויה (he) (fuya)
• Hindi: छी (hi) (chī)
• Hungarian: fúj (hu)
• Icelandic: oj (is)
• Italian: bleah
• Japanese: げ (ja) (ge), ゲ (ja) (ge), げっ (ge'), ゲッ (ge')
• Lithuanian: fu, pfui
• Navajo: ih
• Norwegian: æsj (no), fysj
• Persian: ایش (fa) (išš), پیف (fa) (pif)
• Polish: fuj (pl), ble (pl)
• Portuguese: credo (pt), eca (pt), que nojo!
• Russian: фу (ru) (fu), тьфу (ru) (tʹfu), фе (ru) (fe), фи (ru) (fi) (aristocratic), бе (ru) (be), бр-р (ru) (br-r), буэ́ (ru) (bué)
• Serbo-Croatian: fuj (sh), bljak
• Spanish: guácala (es), puaj (es), puaf, iw, fo (es) huácala (es), fuchi (es), fúchila, aj (es)
• Swedish: usch (sv), fy (sv), uäk, blä (sv)
• Turkish: ıy (tr)
• Ukrainian: фу (fu)
• Urdu: چھی (chī)
• Vietnamese: êu (vi)
• Welsh: ych a fi

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

ew

1. Obsolete spelling of yew.

Further reading

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Ew”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume III (D–E), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 356, column 1.

Anagrams

• WE, w/e, we

Kamkata-viri

Kamviri cardinal numbers

<  0	1	2  >
Cardinal : ew

Kativiri cardinal numbers

<  0	1	2  >
Cardinal : ew

Etymology

From Proto-Nuristani *eka, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háykas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óykos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ew/

Numeral

ew

1. one

Middle English

Alternative forms

• u, iw, iv, eev, hw, ewe

Etymology

From Old English īw, ēow, from Proto-West Germanic *īhu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iu̯/, /jiu̯/

Noun

ew

1. yew (Taxus baccata)
2. yew wood

Descendants

• English: yew
• Scots: yew, ewe
• Yola: yew

References

• “eu, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-10.

Mokilese

Mokilese numbers ^(edit)

		10
		1	2  →	10  →
General: ew     Animate: emen     Long objects: apas     Pieces: ekij     Serial counting number: oahd     General ordinal: keiow     Animate ordinal: keiow     Long objects ordinal: keiow     Pieces ordinal: keiow

Etymology

e- (“one”) +‎ -w (general numeral classifier)

Numeral

ew

1. the numeral one

Usage notes

Ew is the general form of the numeral one, used for general counting and to describe the number of inanimate objects that are not considered long or pieces of other nouns.

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æw/

Pronoun

Central Kurdish	ئەو (ew)
Southern Kurdish	ئەۊ (eẅ)

ew (he) (she)

Central Kurdish	ئەوان (ewan)
Southern Kurdish	ئەوان (ewan)

ew (they)

ew (masculine oblique singular wî, feminine oblique singular wê, oblique plural wan)

1. he, she, it, they

See also

Kurmanji Kurdish personal pronouns

	singular	plural
1st person	ez (æz)	em (æm)
2nd person	tu (tu)	hûn (huːn)
3rd person	ew (æw)	ew (æw)

Waigali

Waigali cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : ew

Etymology

From Proto-Nuristani *eka, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háykas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óykos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈew/

Numeral

ew (Nisheigram)

1. one