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Etymology
Compound of 🇰🇲.

Literally, refers to how the inflected endings are located in the gojūon table. means the vowel e, which is written beneath the vowel i, the other inflection-related vowel. means only one vowel is involved, since each of the table contains one vowel. Thus, this can be understood as "one-voweled conjugation in e".

Noun

 * 1)  a verbal conjugation class in which the stem ends in -e:

Usage notes

 * The only archaic verb of this class,, was integrated into the class after around the mid-.