English

Proper noun

Esan

1. A people of southwestern Nigeria, whose homeland in Edo state is known as Esanland.
2. Their language, from the Edoid group of Niger-Congo languages.

Basque

Verb

esan

1. to say, tell

Conjugation

Usage notes

Esan's synthetic conjugation is entirely unrelated etymologically to the non-finite forms, instead it uses a stem -io- to conjugate synthetically. However, some of the synthetic forms are archaic, so more often you will see periphrastic forms being used instead.

• For example,

  Zer diozu? = Zer esaten duzu? = What do you say?

  Zer ziotsun? = Zer esan zizun? = What did he tell you?

Synonyms

• erran

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) asen
• (Surmiran, Vallader) asan

Etymology

From Latin asinus.

Noun

esan m (plural esans)

1. (Puter) (male) donkey, ass

Coordinate terms

• (sex): esna

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

e +‎ -san

Pronoun

esan

1. he
2. him

Usage notes

• This is the emphatic form.

Related terms

• e (non-emphatic)