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See also: -eje and ẹjẹ

Chamicuro

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Adverb

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eje

  1. yes

Danish

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Etymology 1

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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.

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Verb

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

  1. own
  2. have
  3. possess
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Etymology 2

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

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Noun

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eje n (uninflected)

  1. possession

Spanish

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Etymology

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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

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  • IPA(key): /ˈexe/ [ˈe.xe]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -exe
  • Syllabification: e‧je

Noun

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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.

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Turkmen

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Etymology

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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

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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

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

Yoruba

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Yoruba numbers (edit)
70
 ←  6 7 8  → 
    Cardinal: èje
    Counting: eéje
    Adjectival: méje
    Ordinal: keje
    Adverbial: ẹ̀ẹ̀meje
    Distributive: méje méje
    Collective: méjèèje
    Fractional: ìdáméje

Etymology

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

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Numeral

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èje or ejé

  1. (Ekiti) seven