eje

See also: -eje and ẹjẹ

Chamicuro

Adverb

eje

1. yes

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Danish eghæ, from Old Norse eiga (“to own”), from Proto-Germanic *aiganą. Cognate of English owe and related to Danish egen and English own.

Older Danish had present tense aa, past tense aatte and past participle aat, which are still used on rare occasions in higher poetry in the 19th century. These forms correspond to Old Norse á, átta, and átt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɑjə]

Verb

eje (imperative ej, infinitive at eje, present tense ejer, past tense ejede, perfect tense har ejet)

1. own
2. have
3. possess

Conjugation

Conjugation of eje

	Active	Passive
Infinitive	eje	ejes
Present tense	ejer	ejes
Past tense	ejede	ejedes
Imperative	ej	-
Participle
Present	ejende
Past	ejet
Gerund	ejen

Etymology 2

From Old Norse eiga, from Proto-Germanic *aigǭ (“property”). Derived from the verb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɑjə]

Noun

eje n (uninflected)

1. possession

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish exe, ex, ax, inherited from Latin axem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs- (“axis”). First attested in the 13th century. Cognate with English axis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈexe/ [ˈe.xe]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -exe
• Syllabification: e‧je

Noun

eje m (plural ejes)

1. (astronomy, geometry, mathematics) axis
2. axle
3. (mechanics) shaft, spindle
4. core, heart, center (main idea)
5. hub (center of activity)
6. focus, focal point (point of concentration or attention)

   El eje principal es el comercio de derechos de emisión.

   The main focus is on emissions trading.

Derived terms

• eje cafetero
• eje de abscisas
• eje de coordenadas
• eje de ordenadas
• eje de simetría
• eje del mal
• eje vertebrador

 

Related terms

• axial
• axil

 

Further reading

• “eje”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Turkmen

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *eke (“elder sister”). Cognate with Kazakh әже (äje, “grandmother”), Chagatai اچه (äçä, “mother, old woman”), Chuvash акка (akka), Kyrgyz эже (eje, “elder sister, aunt”), Southern Altai эје (eǰe, “elder sister”), Ottoman Turkish اجی (eji, “elder sister, grandmother”), Karachay-Balkar эгеч (egeç, “sister”). Compare also Hazaragi آجه (âja, “grandmother”), Mongolian ээж (eež, “mother”), Buryat эжы (ežy, “mother”), Kalmyk ээҗ (eej, “mother, paternal grandmother”).

Noun

eje

1. (Teke, Saryk, Yomut, Yemreli) mother

   Synonym: (Ersari) ene

2. (Teke, Saryk) aunt

   Synonyms: (Yemreli, Yomut) ejeke, (Ersari) eke

3. (Teke, Saryk, Yomut, Yemreli) elder sister

   Synonym: (Ersari) eke

4. (Yomut, Iran) paternal grandmother

References

• Rasekh, Muhammad Salih (2016) A Study of the Turkmen Dialects of Afghanistan‎^[1], pages 252, 254

Yoruba

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Cardinal: èje     Counting: eéje     Adjectival: méje     Ordinal: keje     Adverbial: ẹ̀ẹ̀meje     Distributive: méje méje     Collective: méjèèje     Fractional: ìdáméje

Etymology

Proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruboid *è-bye, compare with Igala èbye, ultimately from a locally innovated Yoruboid root

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /è.d͡ʒē/
• (Ekiti) IPA^(key): /ē.d͡ʒé/

Numeral

èje or ejé

1. (Ekiti) seven