ey

Meaning

Noun

• An egg.
• An island.

Related

Similar words

• see Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns

Origin

• From Middle English ei, ey, from Old English ǣġ, from Proto-West Germanic *aij, from Proto-Germanic *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm. egg and ovum.
• This native - form was displaced by the - derived egg in the 16th century, most likely due to its clashing with the word eye, wherewith it had come to be a homonym.
• From Middle English ei, from Old English ieġ, from Proto-West Germanic *auwju from Proto-Germanic *awjō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂. oe.
• Coined in the year 1975 by one Christine M. Elverson by removing the "th" from they.