A

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɔ/
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• rhymes with -ɔ
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• /eɪ/ stressed form
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• UK, stressed: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• unstressed: /ə/
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• rhymes with -eɪ
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• homophone: eh
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• homophone: her (non-rhotic, unstressed form)
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /eɪ̯/
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• Australian: /æɪ/
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• South-Asia: /eː/
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• phoneme: /æ/
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• phoneme: /ɑː/
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• phoneme: /eɪ/
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• phoneme: /ə/
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• /ˈʌ/
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• /ə/
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• UK, US: /ə/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ʌ/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɑ/
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• CMU ARPABET: AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: EY1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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* (highest rank, grade, music): From the initial position of the letter A in the English alphabet. * (blood type): From A antigen

From Northern Middle English aw, alteration of all.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h1óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-West Germanic *ain Old English ān Middle English an Middle English a English a From Middle English a, an, from Old English ān (“one; a; lone; sole”). More at one. The "n" was gradually lost before consonants in almost all dialects by the 15th century. Cognate with Alemannic German a (“a, an”), East Franconian a (“a, an”).

From Middle English and Old English upper case letter A and split of Middle English and Old English upper case letter Æ. * The Old English letters A and Æ replaced the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letters ᚪ (a, “āc”) and ᚫ (æ, “æsc”), derived from the Runic letter ᚫ (a, “Ansuz”), in the 7th century.

The letter name is from Middle English ā, from Old French, ultimately from Latin ā. Use of the Latin letter in (Old) English displaced the futhorc letter ᚪ (a) beginning in the 7th century, and partially also ᚫ (æ).

Contraction of and.

Contraction of gonna, itself a reduction of going to; see Etymology 8 above (“to”).

Borrowed from Russian а (a).

From the common method of counting semiquavers as "one-e-and-a, two-e-and-a" and so on.

* From Middle English a, o, from Old English a-, an, on. * Unstressed form of on.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h2epó Proto-Germanic *ab Proto-West Germanic *ab Old English æf Old English of Middle English of English a From Middle English of, with apocope of the final f and vowel reduction.

From Middle English a, a reduced form of he (“he”)/ha (“he”), heo (“she”)/ha (“she”), ha (“it”), and hie, hie (“they”).

From Middle English a, ha contraction of have, or haven.

118 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Mandarin: 横 (héng) — across (crossword clue notation; as in 23a)
• French: h — across (crossword clue notation; as in 23a)
• German: W — across (crossword clue notation; as in 23a)
• Japanese: ヨコ (yoko) — across (crossword clue notation; as in 23a)
• Japanese: ヨ (yo) — across (crossword clue notation; as in 23a)
• Korean: 가로 (garo) — across (crossword clue notation; as in 23a)
• Russian: г (g) — across (crossword clue notation; as in 23a)
• Spanish: H — across (crossword clue notation; as in 23a)
• Chinese Mandarin: 呃 (è) — sound of hesitation
• French: euh — sound of hesitation
• German: äh — sound of hesitation
• Japanese: ええと (ēto) — sound of hesitation
• Korean: 어 (eo) — sound of hesitation
• Russian: э-э (e-e) — sound of hesitation
• Spanish: eh — sound of hesitation
• Vietnamese: ờ — sound of hesitation
• Danish: E (es) — playing card
• Dutch: A (aas) — playing card
• Estonian: Ä (äss) — playing card
• French: A — playing card
• German: A — playing card
• Icelandic: A — playing card
• Italian: A — playing card
• Polish: A — playing card
• Portuguese: A (ás) — playing card
• Russian: Т (T) — playing card
• Swedish: E (ess) — playing card
• American Sign Language: 𝣷𝪜 — name of the letter A, a
• Arabic: إِي (ʔey) — name of the letter A, a
• Arabic: آ (ʔā) — name of the letter A, a
• Asturian: a — name of the letter A, a
• Bengali: এ (e) — name of the letter A, a
• Bulgarian: а (a) — name of the letter A, a
• Burmese: အေ (e) — name of the letter A, a
• Catalan: a — name of the letter A, a
• Chinese Mandarin: 诶 (ēi) — name of the letter A, a
• Danish: a — name of the letter A, a
• Esperanto: a — name of the letter A, a
• Finnish: aa — name of the letter A, a
• French: a — name of the letter A, a
• Galician: a — name of the letter A, a
• German: A — name of the letter A, a
• Greek: έι (éi) — name of the letter A, a
• Hawaiian: ʻā — name of the letter A, a
• Hebrew: איי (éy) — name of the letter A, a
• Hindi: ए (e) — name of the letter A, a
• Hungarian: a — name of the letter A, a
• Icelandic: a — name of the letter A, a
• Ido: a — name of the letter A, a
• Irish: á — name of the letter A, a
• Irish: ailm — name of the letter A, a
• Italian: a — name of the letter A, a
• Japanese: エー (ē) — name of the letter A, a
• Khmer: អេ (ee) — name of the letter A, a
• Korean: 에이 (ei) — name of the letter A, a
• Latin: ā — name of the letter A, a
• Latvian: a — name of the letter A, a
• Macedonian: а (a) — name of the letter A, a
• Malay: e — name of the letter A, a
• Marathi: ए (e) — name of the letter A, a
• Eastern Mari: а (a) — name of the letter A, a
• Occitan: a — name of the letter A, a
• Odia: ଏ (e) — name of the letter A, a
• Oromo: a — name of the letter A, a
• Persian: آ (â) — name of the letter A, a
• Persian: اِی (ey) — name of the letter A, a
• Polish: a — name of the letter A, a
• Portuguese: á — name of the letter A, a
• Romanian: â — name of the letter A, a
• Russian: эй (ej) — name of the letter A, a
• Russian: а (a) — name of the letter A, a
• Slovene: a — name of the letter A, a
• Spanish: a — name of the letter A, a
• Swedish: a — name of the letter A, a
• Tagalog: a — name of the letter A, a
• Tamil: ஏ (ē) — name of the letter A, a
• Thai: เอ (ee) — name of the letter A, a
• Turkish: a — name of the letter A, a
• Vietnamese: a — name of the letter A, a
• Yoruba: á — name of the letter A, a
• Bulgarian: а (a) — name of the Cyrillic letter А, а
• Chinese Mandarin: 阿 (ā) — name of the Cyrillic letter А, а
• French: a — name of the Cyrillic letter А, а
• German: A — name of the Cyrillic letter А, а
• Japanese: ア (a) — name of the Cyrillic letter А, а
• Korean: 아 (a) — name of the Cyrillic letter А, а
• Eastern Mari: а (a) — name of the Cyrillic letter А, а
• Russian: а (a) — name of the Cyrillic letter А, а
• Russian Sign Language: 𝣷𝪜 — name of the Cyrillic letter А, а
• Spanish: a — name of the Cyrillic letter А, а
• Vietnamese: a — name of the Cyrillic letter А, а
• Arabic: ا (ʔalif) — first ordering symbol
• Chinese Mandarin: 甲 (jiǎ) — first ordering symbol
• French: a — first ordering symbol
• German: a — first ordering symbol
• Japanese: あ (a) — first ordering symbol
• Japanese: ア (a) — first ordering symbol
• Japanese: イ (i) — first ordering symbol
• Japanese: 甲 (kō) — first ordering symbol
• Korean: 가 (ga) — first ordering symbol
• Korean: 갑 — first ordering symbol
• Russian: а (a) — first ordering symbol
• Spanish: a — first ordering symbol
• Vietnamese: a — first ordering symbol
• Arabic: فِي (fī) — per; each (time unit)
• Chinese Mandarin: 每 (měi) — per; each (time unit)
• French: par — per; each (time unit)
• German: pro — per; each (time unit)
• German: am — per; each (time unit)
• Japanese: に (ni) — per; each (time unit)
• Japanese: ごとに (goto ni) — per; each (time unit)
• Korean: 에 (e) — per; each (time unit)
• Korean: 마다 (mada) — per; each (time unit)
• Russian: в (v) — per; each (time unit)
• Russian: по (po) — per; each (time unit)
• Spanish: por — per; each (time unit)
• Spanish: al — per; each (time unit)
• Vietnamese: mỗi — per; each (time unit)