-ey Definition

ē, i
affix

-y.

Clayey, gooey.
Webster's New World
suffix
Alternative form of -y.
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Alternative form of -ie.
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Old Norse suffix for placenames meaning "island", like in Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney or Surtsey (see ey).

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noun

(obsolete) An egg.

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An island.

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pronoun

(neologism) They (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.

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Other Word Forms of -ey

Noun

Singular:
-ey
Plural:
eys

Origin of -ey

  • From Middle English ey, from Old English ǣġ ("egg"; ǣġru in the plural), from Proto-Germanic *ajjÄ…, *ajjaz (“egg"), from Proto-Indo-European *ōuyo-, *h₂ōwyóm (“egg"). Cognate with West Frisian aai (“egg"), Dutch ei (“egg"), German Low German Ei (“egg"), German Ei (“egg"), Danish æg (“egg"), Swedish ägg (“egg"), Icelandic egg (“egg"), Scottish Gaelic ugh (“egg"), Latin ōvum (“egg"). Was replaced by egg in the 16th century.

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  • Coined by Christine M. Elverson by removing the "th" from they.

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  • Compare eyot.

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-ey Sentence Examples

  • The very names of the islands indicate their nature, for the terminal a or ay is the Norse ey, meaning "island," which is scarcely disguised even in the words Pomona and Hoy.

  • The direction of YX, being a thrust upwards, shows the direction in which we must go round the triangle YXE to find the direction of the two other forces; doing this we find that the force XE must act down towards the point YXE, and the force EY away from the same point.

  • The Orkneys were the Orcades of classical writers, and the word is probably derived from the Norse Orkn, seal, and ey, island.

  • The P4JrJy dispute began with a struggle over the succession in relations the principality of Karaman, where the two sultans favored rival candidates, and the Ottoman sultan ur ey.

  • If the origin of rectangular axes fixed in the lamina be shifted through a space whose projections on the original directions of the axes are X, u, and if the axes are simultaneously turned through an angle e, the coordinates of a point of the lamina, relative to the original axes, are changed from x, y to X+x cos ey sin e, u+x sin e+y cos e, or X + x ye, u + Xe + y, ultimately.

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