ea
Meanings
noun
- A river or watercourse.
det
- Alternative form of ea.
noun
- Initialism of executive assistant.
- Initialism of estate agent.
- Initialism of enrolled agent.
- Initialism of educational assistant.
- Initialism of ethyl acetate.
- Initialism of environmental assessment.
- Initialism of enterprise architecture.
- Initialism of evolutionary algorithm.
- Initialism of effective altruism.
- Initialism of effective altruist.
name
- Initialism of Environment Agency.
- Initialism of Eid al-Adha.
- Initialism of East Africa.
- Initialism of Electronic Arts.
noun
- Abbreviation of elastane
name
- The name of Enki in Akkadian and Babylonian mythology.
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Etymology
From Middle English ee, ea, æ, from Old English ēa (“river”), from Proto-West Germanic *ahu (“waters, river”), from Proto-Germanic *ahwō (“waters, river”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂ (“water, flowing water”). Compare English aqua. Cognates Cognate with North Frisian ia (“river”), Saterland Frisian Äi (“river”), West Frisian ie (“water, stream”), Dutch a (“water, stream”), German Ache (“water, stream, river, flood”), Danish å (“stream, creek”), Swedish å (“stream, creek”), Icelandic á (“stream, river”), Latin aqua (“water”).
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