ean

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ean"

English

Etymology

From Middle English enen, from Old English ēanian (“to yean, bring forth young, bring forth lambs”), from Proto-West Germanic *aunōn, from Proto-Germanic *aunōną (“to bring forth lambs”).

An alternate etymology derives the Old English word from a corruption of Old English ēacnian (“to add, increase, be enlarged, be augmented, become pregnant, conceive, bring forth, produce”), from ēacen (“increased, augmented”), from ēaca (“an addition, increase, eeking”), from Proto-Germanic *aukô (“increase”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg- (“to increase”). More at eke.

Verb

ean (third-person singular simple present eans, present participle eaning, simple past and past participle eaned)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To bring forth young; to yean.
   • c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry Gosson, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

     That I was shipp'd at sea, I well remember,
     Even on my eaning time; but whether there
     Deliver'd, by the holy gods,
     I cannot rightly say.

Related terms

• yean

Anagrams

• ANE, -ane, NAE, NEA, ENA

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈea̯n/

Verb

ean

1. first-person dual present of ii

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æ͜ɑːn/

Noun

ēan (Late West Saxon)

1. nominative/accusative plural of ēa

Teop

Pronoun

ean

1. you (second-person pronoun, nominative case, singular)

Further reading

• https://corpus1.mpi.nl/media-archive/dobes_data/Teop/Info/Teop_Sketch_Grammar_May07.pdf
• https://web.archive.org/web/20170516185153/http://www.ioling.org/booklets/iol-2012-indiv-sol.en.pdf