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Initialism of Eurasian Economic Union.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: economics, government, politics, sciences
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name
Any of several rivers in Lincolnshire.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Alternative form of ea.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
Water.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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History
From Old English ēa (“running water, water, stream, river”), from Proto-Germanic *ahwō (“waters, river”), from Proto-Indo-European *h2ekweh2 (“water, flowing water”). Cognate with North Frisian ia (“river”), Saterland Frisian Äi (“river”), West Frisian ie (“water, stream”), Dutch aa (“water, stream”), German Ache (“water, stream, river, flood”), Swedish å (“stream, creek”), Icelandic á (“stream, river”), Latin aqua (“water”). Doublet of aqua and yeo. Related to, but not derived from, French eau ("water").
From Middle English ea, eo, from Old English ēa (“running water, water, stream, river”), from Proto-Germanic *ahwō (“waters, river”), from Proto-Indo-European *h2ekweh2 (“water, flowing water”). Compare English aqua. Compare ea, yeo. Related to, and spelling influenced by, but not derived from French eau (“water”).
From French eau, from Middle French eau, eaue, from Old French ewe, euwe, egua (“water”), from Latin aqua (“water”), from Proto-Indo-European *h2ekweh2 (“water, flowing water”). Doublet of aqua.
Across languages
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