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1. nvs., Different, strange, peculiar, unusual, heathen (Biblical), other; away off, elsewhere; beforehand, already, before, premature, in advance (sometimes translated ‘had’ and called by Andrews [Gram. 1.4] a sign of the pluperfect tense, although it is used after the imperative mood).

• Examples:
  • I kahi ʻē ka ua, waele ʻē ke pulu (saying), when the rain is elsewhere, open up beforehand the mulch [prepare for rain before it comes].
  • He ʻē! How strange! [It] is gone, past!
  • Holo ʻē lākou, they fled beforehand (away, elsewhere).
  • Hele ma kahi ʻē! Go away! Get out!
  • ʻIke ʻē lākou, they already knew.
• Related:
  • ʻĀina ʻē, foreign land.
  • Keiki hānau ʻē, prematurely born child.
• References:
  • Cf. ʻē aʻe, ʻano ʻē, mea ʻē.
  • PPN kese , PEP kee .

2. interjection, Yes (unemphatic, as in mild agreement and indicating that one has heard; cf. ʻae).

3. n., The letter “e”.

• Source:
  • English.

4. n., Key of A (music).

• Source:
  • English.

After a word ending in a, ʻe is a contraction for ae.