eheu

it is quite close to "eheu" which means alas in Latin.

Are You Shaw? Kerron Cross 2006

I remember a classmate being so chuffed when he figured out how to say "Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!" in Latin...he peppered his conversation with it for ages. "leones, tigresque, ursaeque, eheu!" was his phrase.

Confessions and Comparisons Penny 2009

However, they had concerns that nobody would tune in to such an episode if they started with it. eheu!

HBO's Rome S2 Ep 8 2007

Sed eheu inquis euge quid agemus? ubi pro Epithalamio Bellonae flagellum, pro musica harmonia terribilum lituorum et tubarum audias clangorem, pro taedis nuptialibus, villarum, pagorum, urbium videas incendia; ubi pro jubilo lamenta, pro risu fletus aerem complent.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Max Ehrmann in his poem eheu! spoke for all of us:

Archive 2006-11-01 Rus Bowden 2006

Max Ehrmann in his poem eheu! spoke for all of us:

Great Regulars: Oblivious to my environs Rus Bowden 2006

They're kinda dense in that area (and we have had that conversation ... eheu, the irony of it all).

qdiosa Diary Entry qdiosa 2001

It is now thirty-five years since (eheu! fugaces labuntur anni!) the writer of this induced his friend Sir Egerton Brydges to print the

Notes and Queries, Number 06, December 8, 1849 Various

If it does, revoke, O student, your shrill _eheu_ for the Greekless and untrousered savage of the canoe, suppress your feelings, and go steadily into rhabdomancy with several divining-rods, in search of the Pierian spring which must surely exist somewhere among the guttural districts of the Ojibbeway tongue.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

Of these diphthongs EU occurs, -- except in Greek words, -- only in _heus, heu, eheu_; in _seu, ceu, neu_.

The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it Frances Ellen Lord