Etymology

Ebeye

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Today it means: The most populous island of Kwajalein atoll, Marshall Islands. Full definition →

German Ebeje ← Marshallese Ebeje
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The story

  1. Marshallese · derived fromEbeje
  2. German · borrowed fromEbeje
  3. English todayEbeye

Originally a phonetic respelling of German Ebeje, with j mispronounced as if a German word, from Marshallese Ebeje, the older orthographic spelling of Epjā. Later on, re-pronounced as if an English word, leading to modern Marshallese Ibae.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.