ès
See also: Appendix:Variations of "es"
Cornish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛz/
Preposition
ès
- (Standard Cornish) Short for ages.
French
Etymology
From Old French es, contraction of en + les. The grave accent is both to indicate the pronunciation and to disambiguate with es.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛs/
Audio (file) - Homophones: ace, aces, esse, esses
Preposition
ès
- (archaic) in (the)
Usage notes
Now used mainly in the names of academic degrees (like licence ès lettres or licence ès arts), and preserved in placenames.
Further reading
- “ès”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- SE, se
Javanese
Romanization
ès
- Romanization of ꦲꦺꦱ꧀
Norman
Etymology
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Preposition
ès
- (Guernsey) to the, at the
Occitan
Verb
ès
- second-person singular present indicative of èsser
- Synonym: siás
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛs/
- Rhymes: -ɛs
Noun
ès f (plural esau or esys)
- The name of the Latin-script letter S.
Mutation
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | h-prothesis |
| ès | unchanged | unchanged | hès |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
See also
- (Latin-script letter names) llythyren; a, bi, ec, èch, di, èdd, e, èf, èff, èg, eng, aetsh, i / i dot, je, ce, el, èll, em, en, o, pi, ffi, ciw, er, rhi, ès, ti, èth, u / u bedol, fi, w, ecs, y, sèd