E

E
ISO basic Laitin alphabet

Cursive script 'e' and capital 'E' in the U.S. D'Nealian script style

E (named e /ˈiː/, plural ees)^[1] is a vowel an the fift letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet. It is the maist commonly uised letter in mony leids, includin: Czech,^[2] Dens,^[2] Dutch,^[2] Inglis,^[3] French,^[4] German,^[5] Hungarian,^[2] Latin,^[2] Norwegian,^[2] Spaingie,^[6] an Swadish.^[2]

History

Egyptian hieroglyph
q’

Phoenician
He

Etruscan
E

Greek
Epsilon

Roman/
Cyrillic
E

Letter 'E' differs little frae its derivational soorce, the Greek letter epsilon, 'Ε'. In etymology, the Semitic hê haes been suggestit tae hae stairtit as a prayin or cryin human figure (hillul 'jubilation'), an wis probably based on a seemilar Egyptian hieroglyph that indicatit a different pronunciation. In Semitic, the letter representit /h/ (an /e/ in foreign wirds), in Greek hê acame epsilon wi the value /e/. Etruscans an Romans follaeed this uisage. Altho Middlin Inglis spellin uised 'e' tae represent lang an short /e/, the Great Vowel Shift chynged lang /eː/ (as in 'me' or 'bee') tae /iː/ while short /e/ (as in 'met' or 'bed') remains a mid vowel.

Relatit letters an ither similar characters

Ε ε : Greek letter Epsilon
Ɛ ɛ : Latin letter Epsilon
Е е : Cyrillic letter Ye
Є є : Cyrillic letter Ukrainian Ye
Э э : Cyrillic letter E
℮ : Estimatit sign (uised on prepackaged guids for sale within the European Union).
€ : Euro sign.
ℯ : a mathematical constant.
ㅌ : a Hangul letter.
∈ : in set theory, the seembol for set membership.
ℇ : the Euler–Mascheroni constant.

Computin codes

Character	E		e
Unicode name	LATIN CAIPITAL LETTER E		LATIN SMAA LETTER E
Encodins	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	69	U+0045	101	U+0065
UTF-8	69	45	101	65
Numeric chairacter reference	E	E	e	e
EBCDIC faimily	197	C5	133	85
ASCII ¹	69	45	101	65

¹ Also for encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.

Ither representations

NATO phonetic	Morse code
Echo	·

		[[File:Sign language {{{fingerspelling}}}.svg\|90px]]
Seegnal banner	Banner semaphore	American manual alphabet (ASL fingerspellin)	Braille dots-15

In Breetish Sign Leid (BSL), the letter 'e' is signed bi extendin the index finger o the richt haund touchin the tip o index on the left haund, wi aw fingers o left haund open.

References

↑ "E" a letter Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged (1993). Ees is the plural of the name of the letter; the plural of the letter itself is rendered E's, Es, e's, or es.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Kelk, Brian. "Letter frequencies".
↑ Lewand, Robert. "Relative Frequencies of Letters in General English Plain text". Cryptographical Mathematics. Central College. Archived frae the original on 8 Julie 2008. Retrieved 25 Juin 2008.
↑ "Frequency of Occurrence of Letters in French". Santa Cruz Public Libraries. Archived frae the original on 12 Mairch 2008. Retrieved 25 Juin 2008.
↑ "Frequency of Occurrence of Letters in German". Santa Cruz Public Libraries. Archived frae the original on 28 Juin 2012. Retrieved 25 Juin 2008.
↑ "Frequency of Occurrence of Letters in Spanish". Santa Cruz Public Libraries. Archived frae the original on 11 Mey 2008. Retrieved 25 Juin 2008.

Freemit airtins

Media relatit tae E at Wikimedia Commons
The dictionar defineetion o E at Wiktionary
The dictionar defineetion o e at Wiktionary

The ISO basic Laitin alphabet v t e
Aa	Bb	Cc	Dd	Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh	Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn	Oo	Pp	Qq	Rr	Ss	Tt	Uu	Vv	Ww	Xx	Yy	Zz
Letter E with diacritics
Éé	Èè	Ĕĕ	Êê	Ếế	Ềề	Ễễ	Ểể	Ěě	Ëë	Ẽẽ	Ėė	Ȩȩ	Ḝḝ	Ęę	Ēē	Ḗḗ	Ḕḕ	Ẻẻ	Ȅȅ	Ȇȇ	Ẹẹ	Ệệ	Ḙḙ	Ḛḛ	Ɇɇ
ᶒ	ⱸ
Related
Derivations Diacritics History ISO/IEC 646 Leet o letters Numerals Palaeography Punctuation Unicode

[1] "E" a letter Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged (1993). Ees is the plural of the name of the letter; the plural of the letter itself is rendered E's, Es, e's, or es.

[Brian_Kelk-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Kelk, Brian. "Letter frequencies".

[3] Lewand, Robert. "Relative Frequencies of Letters in General English Plain text". Cryptographical Mathematics. Central College. Archived frae the original on 8 Julie 2008. Retrieved 25 Juin 2008.

[4] "Frequency of Occurrence of Letters in French". Santa Cruz Public Libraries. Archived frae the original on 12 Mairch 2008. Retrieved 25 Juin 2008.

[5] "Frequency of Occurrence of Letters in German". Santa Cruz Public Libraries. Archived frae the original on 28 Juin 2012. Retrieved 25 Juin 2008.

[6] "Frequency of Occurrence of Letters in Spanish". Santa Cruz Public Libraries. Archived frae the original on 11 Mey 2008. Retrieved 25 Juin 2008.

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