Translingual

Symbol

Eu

1. (chemistry) Symbol for europium.

Aromanian

Pronoun

eu

1. Alternative form of io

Chuukese

Numeral

eu

1. (cardinal) one

Related terms

• eche
• aewin (ordinal)
• efoch
• efou
• emon
• et

French

Etymology

From Old French eu, from Vulgar Latin *habutus (Classical Latin habitus). Compare Aromanian avut, Catalan hagut, Dalmatian avoit, Friulian vût, Italian avuto, Occitan agut, Old Spanish avudo, Portuguese havido, Romanian avut, Sicilian avutu, Spanish habido, Venetian avudo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y/
• Homophones: eue, eues, eus, eut, eût, hue, hues, huent, u, us

Verb

eu m ‎(feminine singular eue, masculine plural eus, feminine plural eues)

1. past participle of avoir

Usage notes

• Eu is pronounced /y/, despite the fact that the digraph -eu- is regularly pronounced /ø/ or /œ/.

Anagrams

• UE

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese eu, from Vulgar Latin *eo, attested from the 6th century in Romance, from Latin ego.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

eu nominative (oblique min, dative me, accusative me)

1. I (singular first-person personal pronoun)

See also

• Appendix:Galician pronouns
• comigo
• me
• meu
• min

Japanese

Romanization

eu

1. rōmaji reading of えう

Latvian

Interjection

eu

1. Use to draw somebody's attention

Manx

Pronoun

eu ‎(emphatic form euish)

1. 2nd person plural/formal of ec

   at you/ye

Old French

Verb

eu

1. past participle of avoir

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eo, attested from the 6th century in Romance, from Latin ego, from Proto-Italic *egō, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂. Compare Old Leonese you, yo Spanish yo, and Mozarabic yo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛw/

Pronoun

eu

1. I
   • 13th century, Cancioneiro da Ajuda, João Garcia de Guilhade, A 229: Amigos, non poss'eu negar (facsimile)

     [O]s ollos uerdes que eu ui / me façen ora andar aſſi.

     The green eyes which I have seen / have made me now be like this.

Descendants

• Eonavian: eu
• Fala: ei
• Galician: eu
• Portuguese: eu
  • Barranquian: ê
  • Malaccan Creole Portuguese: yo

Old Provençal

Alternative forms

• ie (before enclitic)
• ieu

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eo, attested from the 6th century in Romance, from Latin ego.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛw/

Pronoun

eu

1. I (first-person singular subject pronoun)

Descendants

• Catalan: jo
• Occitan: jo, ieu

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• giu
• iu

Etymology

See iu.

Pronoun

eu

1. you (accusative)

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese eu, from Vulgar Latin *eo, attested from the 6th century in Romance, from Latin ego, from Proto-Italic *egō, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈew/
• Hyphenation: eu

Pronoun

eu m f

1. I (first-person singular personal pronoun)
   • 2005, Lya Wyler (translator), J. K. Rowling (English author), Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), Rocco, page 184:

     Eu estava na esperança de encontrá-lo antes do jantar!

     I was hoping to meet you before dinner!

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:eu.

See also

Noun

eu m (plural eus)

1. (chiefly philosophy) ego; self (individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness)

Synonyms

• ego

Derived terms

• eu lírico

Related terms

• ego

Interjection

eu!

1. Used to draw attention to oneself after having their name called.

   — Dr. Hélio?

   — Eu!

Romanian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eo, attested from the 6th century in Romance, from Latin ego, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [jew], [jo]

Pronoun

eu

1. (nominative form) I

Declension

See also

Noun

eu n ‎(plural euri)

1. ego

Declension

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun) jau
• (Sursilvan) jeu
• (Sutsilvan) jou
• (Surmiran) ia
• (Puter) eau

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eo, attested from the 6th century in Romance, from Latin ego; akin to Greek εγώ ‎(egó), Sanskrit aham, all from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

Pronoun

eu

1. (Vallader) I

Welsh

Alternative forms

• ’u (after vowels)

Pronunciation

• (ordinary speech) IPA^(key): /i/
• (careful speech) IPA^(key): /əi/
• Homophone: ei

Determiner

eu ‎(triggers h-prothesis of a following vowel)

1. their

   Cwynent am eu blinder a’u hafiechyd.‎

   They complained of their weariness and their illness.

2. them (as the direct object of a verbal noun)

   Fe fu amser pan fyddai drysau trên yn eu hagor i chi.‎

   There was a time when train doors would be opened for you.

Usage notes

Nhw is often added after the noun.