эге

Russian

Interjection

эге • (ege)

  1. used to express surprise at something unexpected
    • 1862, Иван Тургенев, “Глава 5”, in Отцы и дети; English translation from Richard Hare, transl., Fathers and Sons, 1947:
      На другое утро Базаров раньше всех проснулся и вышел из дома. «Эге! — подумал он, посмотрев кругом, — местечко-то неказисто».
      Na drugoje utro Bazarov ranʹše vsex prosnulsja i vyšel iz doma. «Ege! — podumal on, posmotrev krugom, — mestečko-to nekazisto».
      The next morning Bazarov woke up earlier than anyone else and went out of the house. "Ugh!" he thought, "this isn't much of a place!"

Shor

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ẹ̄ke- (“file”). Cognate with Kazakh егеу (egeu), Uzbek egov, Kyrgyz өгөө (ögöö),Tuvan эгээ (egee),Southern Altai эгӱ (egü),Tatar игәү (igäw),Karachay-Balkar егеу (yegeu),Bashkir игәү (igəw),Kumyk эгев (egew),Uyghur ekek,Nogai эгев (égev),Turkish eğe (“file”)

Noun

эге • (ege)

  1. file

Tuvan

Noun

эге • (ege) (definite accusative эгени, plural эгелер)

  1. start, beginning
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