ès

See also: Appendix:Variations of "es"

Cornish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛz/

Preposition

ès

1. (Standard Cornish) Short for ages.

French

Etymology

From Old French es, contraction of en + les. The grave accent is both to indicate the pronunciation and to disambiguate with tu es (“you are”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛs/, (in laison also) /ɛz‿/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: ace, aces, esse, esses

Contraction

ès

1. (archaic) Contraction of en les (“in the”).

Usage notes

• Now used mainly in the names of academic degrees (like licence ès lettres or licence ès arts). Also preserved in various placenames.

Further reading

• “ès”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• SE, se

Javanese

Romanization

ès

1. Romanization of ꦲꦺꦱ꧀

Norman

Etymology

From Old French es

Preposition

ès

1. (Guernsey) to the, at the

Occitan

Verb

ès

1. second-person singular present indicative of èsser

   Synonym: siás

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛs/
• Rhymes: -ɛs

Noun

ès f (plural esau or esys)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter S/s.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	h-prothesis
ès	unchanged	unchanged	hès
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) llythyren; a, bi, ec, èch, di, èdd, e, èf, èff, èg, eng, aetsh, i / i dot, je, ce, el, èll, em, en, o, pi, ffi, ciw, er, rhi, ès, ti, èth, u / u bedol / u gwpan, fi, w, ecs, y, sèd