eje
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.
eje (imperative ej, infinitive at eje, present tense ejer, past tense ejede, perfect tense har ejet)
From Old Norse eiga, from Proto-Germanic *aigǭ (“property”). Derived from the verb.
eje n (uninflected)
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.
eje m (plural ejes)
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”).
eje
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| Cardinal: èje Counting: eéje Adjectival: méje Ordinal: keje Adverbial: ẹ̀ẹ̀meje Distributive: méje méje Collective: méjèèje Fractional: ìdáméje | ||
Proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruboid *è-bye, compare with Igala èbye, ultimately from a locally innovated Yoruboid root
èje or ejé