E
5t letter o the Laitin alphabet From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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E (named e /ˈiː/, plural ees)[1] is a vowel an the fift letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet. It is the maist commonly uised letter in mony leids, includin: Czech,[2] Dens,[2] Dutch,[2] Inglis,[3] French,[4] German,[5] Hungarian,[2] Latin,[2] Norwegian,[2] Spaingie,[6] an Swadish.[2]
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History
Letter 'E' differs little frae its derivational soorce, the Greek letter epsilon, 'Ε'. In etymology, the Semitic hê haes been suggestit tae hae stairtit as a prayin or cryin human figure (hillul 'jubilation'), an wis probably based on a seemilar Egyptian hieroglyph that indicatit a different pronunciation. In Semitic, the letter representit /h/ (an /e/ in foreign wirds), in Greek hê acame epsilon wi the value /e/. Etruscans an Romans follaeed this uisage. Altho Middlin Inglis spellin uised 'e' tae represent lang an short /e/, the Great Vowel Shift chynged lang /eː/ (as in 'me' or 'bee') tae /iː/ while short /e/ (as in 'met' or 'bed') remains a mid vowel.
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Relatit letters an ither similar characters
- Ε ε : Greek letter Epsilon
- Ɛ ɛ : Latin letter Epsilon
- Е е : Cyrillic letter Ye
- Є є : Cyrillic letter Ukrainian Ye
- Э э : Cyrillic letter E
- ℮ : Estimatit sign (uised on prepackaged guids for sale within the European Union).
- € : Euro sign.
- ℯ : a mathematical constant.
- ㅌ : a Hangul letter.
- ∈ : in set theory, the seembol for set membership.
- ℇ : the Euler–Mascheroni constant.
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Computin codes
- 1 Also for encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.
Ither representations
NATO phonetic | Morse code |
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In Breetish Sign Leid (BSL), the letter 'e' is signed bi extendin the index finger o the richt haund touchin the tip o index on the left haund, wi aw fingers o left haund open.
References
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