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EEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle English and Old English upper case letter E and split of Æ, Ea, Eo, and Œ, from five 7th century replacements of Anglo-Saxon Futhorcs by Latin letters: * Old English letter E, from replacement by Latin letter E of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛖ (e). * Old English letter Æ from replacement by Latin ligature Æ of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚫ (æ). * Old English digraph Ea, from replacement by Latin digraph EA of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛠ (ea). * Old English digraph Eo from replacement by Latin digraph EO of Anglo-Saxon Futhorc ᛇ (eo). * Old English letter Œ from replacement by Latin ligature Œ of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛟ (œ).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗EEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
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Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗EEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鄂 (È).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗EEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 誒 /诶 (ê̄), from E ɛ⁵⁵.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗EEnglish (en) · Etymology 5Source text
eEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
The letter name is ultimately from Latin ē. Use of the Latin letter in (Old) English displaced, in whole or in part, five futhorc letters in the 7th century: ᛖ (e), ᚫ (æ), ᛠ (ea), ᛇ (eo), and ᛟ (œ).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗eEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
The letter name is ultimately from Latin ē. Use of the Latin letter in (Old) English displaced, in whole or in part, five futhorc letters in the 7th century: ᛖ (e), ᚫ (æ), ᛠ (ea), ᛇ (eo), and ᛟ (œ).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗eEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From a deliberate apheresis of both he and she.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗eEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
From the common method of counting semiquavers as "one-e-and-a, two-e-and-a" and so on.
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