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aught
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: ôt, IPA(key): /??t/
- Rhymes: -??t
- (US) enPR: ôt, IPA(key): /?t/
- (cot–caught merger) enPR: ät, IPA(key): /?t/
Etymology 1
From Middle English aught, ought, from Old English ?ht, from ? (“always", "ever”) + wiht (“thing", "creature”). More at aye, wight.
Alternative forms
- owt
Pronoun
aught
- anything whatsoever, any part.
- 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, Scene ii[1]:
- [...] wouldst thou aught with me?
- But go, my son, and see if aught be wanting.
- 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London, Oxford University Press, 1973. § 29.
- […] to other objects, which for aught we know, may be only in appearance similar.
- 1886-88, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night:
- But as soon as her son espied her, bowl in hand, he thought that haply something untoward had befallen her, but he would not ask of aught until such time as she had set down the bowl, when she acquainted him with that which had occurred […]
- 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, chapter 5
- His life among these fierce apes had been happy; for his recollection held no other life, nor did he know that there existed within the universe aught else than his little forest and the wild jungle animals with which he was familiar.
- 1977: J. R. R. Tolkien, Silmarillion, Ainulindalë
- There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made.
- 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, Scene ii[1]:
Adverb
aught (not comparable)
- (archaic) At all, in any degree, in any respect.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, act 5 scene 1
- [...] and if your love
- Can labour aught in sad invention,
- Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb,
- And sing it to her bones [...]
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, act 5 scene 1
References
- aught in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Etymology 2
Meaning of "zero" by confusion with naught. Used amongst those who were once called "non-U" speakers of English.
Noun
aught (plural aughts)
- whit, the smallest part, iota.
- (archaic) zero
- The digit zero as the decade in years. For example, aught-nine for 1909 or 2009.
Usage notes
The use of aught and ought to mean "zero" is very much proscribed as the word aught originally meant the opposite of naught: "anything". This may be due to misanalysis, or may simply be the result of speakers confusing the meanings of aught and naught due to similar-sounding phonemes.
Translations
See also
- naught
- owt
Etymology 3
From Middle English aught (“estimation, regard, reputation”), from Old English æht (“estimation, consideration”), from Proto-West Germanic *ahtu. Cognate with Dutch acht (“attention, regard, heed”), German Acht (“attention, regard”). Also see ettle.
Noun
aught (uncountable)
- (regional) Estimation.
- (regional) Of importance or consequence (in the phrase "of aught").
- (regional, rare, obsolete) Esteem, respect.
Usage notes
In the first sense, generally found in the phrase "in one's aught" as in? "In my aught, this play ain't worth the candle". In the second sense, generally found in the phrase "of aught" as in? "nothing of aught has happened since you've been away, Sir". In the third sense, generally found in the phrase "a man of aught", or rarely in the more archaic phrase "to show somebody or something (some) aught" as in? "show your mother some aught, son".
References
- www.duden.de - Acht
- The Middle English Dictionary
- The Dictionary of the Scots Language
- The Dictionary of the Scots Language
Etymology 4
From Middle English aught, ought, from Old English ?ht, from Proto-Germanic *aihtiz (“possessions, property”).
Alternative forms
- ought
Noun
aught (plural aughts)
- Property; possession
- Duty; place; office
Verb
aught (third-person singular simple present aughts, present participle aughting, simple past and past participle aughted)
- to own, possess
- to owe, be obliged or obligated to
Adjective
aught (comparative more aught, superlative most aught)
- possessed of
Etymology 5
From Middle English ahte, from Old English eahta (“eight”). More at eight.
Numeral
aught
- Obsolete or dialectal form of eight.
Anagrams
- ghaut
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English ought.
Pronoun
aught
- any, anything
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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all
English
Alternative forms
- al (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English all, from Old English eall (“all, every, entire, whole, universal”), from Proto-West Germanic *all, from Proto-Germanic *allaz (“all, whole, every”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?el- (“beyond, other”). Cognate with West Frisian al (“all”), Dutch al (“all”), Scots a' (“all”), German all (“all”), Swedish all (“all”), Norwegian all (“all”), Icelandic allur (“all”), Welsh holl (“all”), Irish uile (“all”), Lithuanian aliái (“all, each, every”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??l/
- (US)
- (General American) IPA(key): /?l/
- IPA(key): [??]
- (cot–caught merger, Inland Northern American) IPA(key): /?l/
- Rhymes: -??l
- Homophones: awl, I'll
Determiner
all
- Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or uncountable).
- In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. In this way all respectable burgesses, down to fifty years ago, spent their evenings.
- Throughout the whole of (a stated period of time; generally used with units of a day or longer).
- (= through the whole of the day and the whole of the night.)
- (= from the beginning of the year until now.)
- Only; alone; nothing but.
- (obsolete) Any.
Derived terms
- given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow
Translations
Pronoun
all
- Everything.
- Everyone.
- The only thing(s).
- All that was left was a small pile of ash.
- (chiefly Southern US, Midland US, Scotland, Northern Ireland) Used after who, what, where, how and similar words, either without changing their meaning, or indicating that one expects that they cover more than one element, e.g. that "who all attended" is more than one person. (Some dialects only allow this to follow some words and not others.)
- 1904 October 10, Shea v. Nilima, [US] Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in 1905, Reports Containing the Cases Determined in All the Circuits from the Organization of the Courts, page 266:
- Q. Now, then, when you started to go to stake the claims, who all went along?
- A. I and Johan Peter Johansen, Otto Greiner, and Thorulf Kjelsberg.
- 1998, Football's Best Short Stories (ed. Paul D. Staudohar), 107:
- "I mean, you could have called us—collect, o'course—jes' to let us know how-all it's a-goin'."
- 2002, Richard Haddock, Arkalalah, iUniverse (?ISBN), page 73:
- "Where all did he go? What exactly was his job?" Gary shrugged and produced a weak laugh. "I reckon the Middle East. Ain't that where all the oil is?"
- 2011, Moni Mohsin, Tender Hooks, Random House India (?ISBN):
- "Do you ever ask me what I want to see? Or ask me about where all I've gone, who all I've met, what all I've done? Never. Not for one second. And why? Because you don't give two hoops about me."
- 1904 October 10, Shea v. Nilima, [US] Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in 1905, Reports Containing the Cases Determined in All the Circuits from the Organization of the Courts, page 266:
- (colloquial, US) Clipping of y’all. Used only as a vocative.
Translations
Adverb
all (not comparable)
- (degree) Intensifier.
- It suddenly went all quiet.
- She was all, “Whatever.”
- (poetic) Entirely; completely; totally.
- Apiece; each.
- The score was 30 all when the rain delay started.
- (degree) so much.
- Don't want to go? All the better since I lost the tickets.
- (obsolete, poetic) Even; just.
Synonyms
- completely
Translations
Noun
all (countable and uncountable, plural alls)
- (with a possessive pronoun) Everything that one is capable of.
- She gave her all, and collapsed at the finish line.
- (countable) The totality of one's possessions.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, pp. 37-8:
- she therefore ordered Jenny to pack up her alls and begone, for that she was determined she should not sleep that night within her walls. […] I packed up my little all as well as I could, and went off.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, pp. 37-8:
Translations
Conjunction
all
- (obsolete) Although.
Derived terms
Adjective
all
- (Pennsylvania, dialect) All gone; dead.
- The butter is all.
Derived terms
- allhood
- allness
Related terms
See also
Anagrams
- LAL, Lal, Lal.
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h?elut- (“bitter”). Compare Old English ealu (“ale”), Latin alum (“comfrey”), al?ta (“tawed leather”), Polish zje?cza?y (Eastern) je?ki, i?ki (“rancid”), Ancient Greek ????????? (alúdoimos, “bitter”).
Adjective
all m (feminine alle)
- of reddish colour
Breton
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?al?/
Adjective
all
- other
Derived terms
- gwezhall
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Occitan (compare Occitan alh), from Latin allium (compare French ail, Spanish ajo).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?a?/
- Rhymes: -a?
Noun
all m (plural alls)
- garlic
Derived terms
- all de bruixa
Further reading
- “all” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Estonian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *alla.
Postposition
all
- under, below (Governs the genitive)
Derived terms
- all-
- alla
- alt
German
Etymology
From Middle High German al, from Old High German al, from Proto-Germanic *allaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /al/
- Rhymes: -al
Determiner
all
- all
- 1843, Karl Ludwig Kannegießer (translation from Italian into German), Die göttliche Komödie des Dante Alighieri, 4th edition, 1st part, Leipzig, p. 84:
- ... / Nachdem, von Wuth und Grausamkeit entbronnen, / Der Weiberschwarm die Männer all erschlug.
- 1843, Karl Ludwig Kannegießer (translation from Italian into German), Die göttliche Komödie des Dante Alighieri, 4th edition, 1st part, Leipzig, p. 84:
- every (in time intervals, with plural noun)
Usage notes
- The bare form all is used with articles and pronouns, which it precedes (as in English). For instance: all die Sachen (“all the things”); all dies[es] Gerede (“all this chitchat”); all[e] meine Freunde (“all my friends”) (more common with the e). Colloquial German often uses the adjective ganz instead: die ganzen Sachen; dies[es] ganze Gerede; meine ganzen Freunde.
Declension
Derived terms
- all zu
- alle, alles (indefinite pronouns)
- alle (adverb)
- aller Enden
- allerhand
- allerorten
- allerorts
- allerseit
- allerseits
- allerwege
- allerwegen
- allerwegs
- allerweil
- Allmacht
- allseits
Further reading
- “all” in Duden online
Gothic
Romanization
all
- Romanization of ????????????
Ingrian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *alla. Cognates include Finnish alla and Estonian all.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?al?/
Postposition
all (+ genitive)
- (of location) under, underneath
Alternative forms
- al
See also
References
- Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)?[2], page 93
Luxembourgish
Etymology
From Middle High German and Old High German al
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /al/, [?l]
- Rhymes: -?l
Pronoun
all
- (with uncountable or plural nouns) all
- (with countable singular nouns) every; each
- Et muss een net mat all Virschlag eens sinn.
- One needn’t agree to every proposition.
- Et muss een net mat all Virschlag eens sinn.
Usage notes
- The word is usually uninflected, except for the dative plural, which becomes allen.
Synonyms
- (every, each): jidder, jiddwer
Derived terms
- alles
Middle English
Alternative forms
- al
Etymology
From Old English eall, from Proto-West Germanic *all, from Proto-Germanic *allaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /al/
Adverb
all
- all (entirely, completely)
Determiner
all
- all, every
Derived terms
- alles
Descendants
- English: all
- Northumbrian: aal
- Scots: a', aw
- Yola: aul
References
- “al, adv. & conj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse allr.
Determiner
all (neuter singular alt, plural alle)
- all
Derived terms
- allehelgensdag
- allmektig
- allvitende
References
- “all” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse allr. Akin to English all.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l?/ (example of pronunciation)
Determiner
all m or f (neuter alt, plural alle)
- all
Derived terms
- allehelgensdag
- allmektig
- allvitande
References
- “all” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ll/, [??]
Adjective
all (Anglian)
- Alternative form of eall
Declension
Adverb
all (Anglian)
- Alternative form of eall
Pennsylvania German
Etymology
From Middle High German and Old High German al. Compare German all, Dutch al, English all.
Adjective
all
- all
Related terms
- alliebber
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish alder, from Old Norse allr, from Proto-Germanic *allaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?el-.
Pronunciation
Determiner
all (neuter allt, masculine alle, plural alla)
- all
Usage notes
All (with inflections) is used with mass nouns. The corresponding for nouns with ordinary plural is alla.
A masculine-looking form (alle) is virtually only retained in the fixed expressions alle man and allesamman (“everyone”).
See also
- varje
- allihop
Welsh
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /a?/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /a(?)?/
Verb
all
- Soft mutation of gall.
Mutation
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