Ei

Ei

1. The exponential integral, a special function, defined as:

   ${\displaystyle \operatorname {Ei} (x)=\int _{-\infty }^{x}{\frac {e^{t}}{t}}dt}$

Ei

1. The tenth letter of the Angami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) Ü ü, Üi üi, A a, Ai ai, I i, Ie ie, U u, Uo uo, E e, Ei ei, O o, Ou ou, K k, Kh kh, G g, Ng ng, C c, Ch ch, J j, Jh jh, Ny ny, T t, Th th, D d, N n, Ts ts, Tsh tsh, Dz dz, P p, Ph ph, B b, M m, Pf pf, Bv bv, Y y, Yh yh, R r, Rh rh, L l, Lh lh, F f, V v, W w, Wh wh, S s, Sh sh, Z z, Zh zh, H h

Inherited from Middle High German ei and Old High German ei, from Proto-West Germanic *aij, from Proto-Germanic *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm.

Cognate with Yiddish איי (ey), Dutch ei, West Frisian aai, English ey and egg, Danish æg.

• IPA^(key): /aɪ̯/

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• Rhymes: -aɪ̯

Ei n (strong, genitive Eies or Eis, plural Eier, diminutive Eichen n or Eierchen n or Eilein n)

1. egg (all biological senses)

   Willst du dein Ei hart oder weich?

   Do you want your egg hard-boiled or soft-boiled?

   Das befruchtete Ei nistet sich in der Gebärmutter ein.

   The fertilised egg nidates in the uterus.

2. something egg-shaped
3. (informal, usually in the plural) testicle; ball (also figuratively)

   Mal sehen, ob ihr Eier habt!

   Let’s see if you guys have balls!

4. (colloquial, in the plural) bucks (money)

   Kost’ dreißig Eier, der Spaß.

   This thing costs thirty bucks.

5. (colloquial, usually vocative, mildly derogatory) clown; foolish bloke

   Da steht „ziehen“, du Ei.

   [The sign] says “pull”, you clown.

• “Ei” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Ei” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Ei” in Duden online
• Ei on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Ei”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

From Middle Low German ei, from Old Saxon ei, from Proto-Germanic *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm. Compare Dutch ei, obsolete English ey, West Frisian aai, Danish æg, German Ei.

Ei n (plural Eia)

1. egg

• Eiajälet
• Eiaküak
• Eirunt
• Eiaschol
• Eiastock
• Eiawittet