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English

Etymology

From Middle English erli , Old English ǽrlīce , from ǽr ( before ) + the adverbial suffix -līce .

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɜː(r)li

Adverb

early (comparative: earlier, superlative: earliest)

1. ( time ) : arriving before expected; sooner than on-time.

Antonyms

• late

Derived terms

• early bird

Translations

• Basque: goizik
• Breton: abred
• Bulgarian: ранен m
• Chinese: 早 (zǎo)
• Czech: brzký
• Dutch: vroeg
• Esperanto: frue
• Finnish: aikaisin, varhain
• French: tôt
• German: früh
• Greek: noris
• Hittite: karú
• Hungarian: korán
• Icelandic: snemma
• Ido: frue
• Italian: presto
• Japanese: 早い (はやい、hayai)
• Polish: wcześnie
• Portuguese: cedo
• Russian: рано /ráno/
• Serbian: rano ( comparative ranije, superlative najranije)
• Slovak: skorý
• Slovene: zgodaj
• Spanish: temprano
• Swedish: tidigt
• Turkish: erken
• Welsh: cynnar

Other Translations for "early"

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Sign Language Spelling
Morse Code		. .- .-. .-.. -.--
Binary		1100101 1100001 1110010 1101100 1111001
Hex		6561726C79
Pig Latin		earlyway

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