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ef

See also: ef-, -ef, and EF

English

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ef (plural efs)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter F/f.
    • 2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170:
      I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time.

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ef

  1. (nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of if, representing dialectal English.
    • 1882, James Jackson, Tom Terror, the Outlaw‎[1]:
      Captain Tom would have hired him to hunt down his own child, ef Rosebud hadn’t interfered.

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Czech

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ef n (indeclinable)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter F/f.

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  • “ef”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “ef”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse ef, from Proto-Germanic *jabai.

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ef

  1. if

Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Dutch ef.

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èf

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter F/f.

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Latin

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ef f (indeclinable)

  1. The name of the letter F.

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  • Multiple Latin names for the letter F, f have been suggested. The most common is ef or a syllabic f, although there is some evidence which also supports, as names for the letter, fē, əf, fə, and even (in the fourth- or fifth-century first Antinoë papyrus, which gives Greek transliterations of the Latin names of the Roman alphabet’s letters) ιφφε (iphphe).

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References

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  • Arthur E. Gordon, The Letter Names of the Latin Alphabet (University of California Press, 1973; volume 9 of University of California Publications: Classical Studies), especially pages 30–31, 42–44, and 63

Latvian

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  • IPA(key): [ɛf]
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ef m (invariable)

  1. The Latvian name of the Latin script letter F/f.

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Lower Sorbian

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ef m inan

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter f/F.

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Malay

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Etymology

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From English ef.

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éf (plural ef-ef)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter F/f.

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Old French

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Inherited from Latin apis.

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ef oblique singular, m or f (oblique plural es, nominative singular es, nominative plural ef)

  1. bee

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  • Picard: é

References

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  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (ef)

Old Norse

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Germanic *jabai, originally the dative of *jabą (“doubt”), whence ef (“doubt”).

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ef

  1. if
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  • Icelandic: ef
  • Old Swedish: ef, em, um
    • Swedish: om
    • Norwegian:
      • Norwegian Nynorsk: um (influenced by um < umb)
  • Old Danish: æf, æm, um
    • Danish: om
      • Norwegian Bokmål: om
        • → Norwegian Nynorsk: om

Etymology 2

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From Proto-Germanic *jabą.

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Noun

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ef

  1. (obsolete) doubt
    mér er til efs
    I doubt
    (literally, “for me is at doubt”)
Declension
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  Declension of ef (strong a-stem)
neuter singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ef efit ef efin
accusative ef efit ef efin
dative efi efinu efum efunum
genitive efs efsins efa efanna
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  • iflaust (“doubtless, undoubted”)
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Old Saxon

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ef

  1. if, when

Tagalog

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English ef, the English name of the letter F/f.

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ef (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜉ᜔)

  1. the name of the Latin-script letter F/f, in the Filipino alphabet
    Synonym: (in the Abecedario) efe

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Further reading

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  • “ef”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Welsh

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *es or *ēs, from Proto-Indo-European *éy.

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ef

  1. (literary) he; him

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  • e, o (colloquial)
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