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Why "え" is used here? What does it mean?
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1I think it means the same as 手をふった. Not sure if it is dialectal or colloquial.– Yang MuyeCommented Jul 10, 2015 at 17:11
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1FYI, it looks to me like the え is a small ぇ. I find that the use of small vowels is a common way of "transcribing" the speech of people who drag out their vowels.– senshinCommented Jul 10, 2015 at 17:29
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@senshin, oh, now I see it too. But in this case no particles are used at all...– aushCommented Jul 10, 2015 at 17:45
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<in this case no particles are used at all> Exactly.– eltonjohnCommented Jul 11, 2015 at 1:50
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The small ぇ in 手ぇふった is a way of indicating in writing the compensatory lengthening of the vowel in a single-mora word that sometimes occurs when the following case particle を is omitted in familiar speech. This is described in The Phonology of Japanese (Labrune 2012) in section 2.7.5, 'Prosodic Lengthening'.
So as Yang Muye says, it means 手をふった.
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So it's not dialectal? Because I read somewhere that it was. But in my opinion it seems fairly common. Commented Jul 11, 2015 at 4:16
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4@YangMuye I don't think it's dialect. We pronounce it as [てぇふった]{LLHHL} in Kansai area, and I think it's pronounced like [てぇふった]{HHLLH} in Kanto area.– chocolate ♦Commented Jul 11, 2015 at 5:28