different between axle vs adle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æks?l/
• Rhymes: -æks?l
• Homophones: axel, axil

Etymology 1

From Middle English axel, axle, eaxle, from Old English eaxl (“shoulder, armpit”), from Proto-West Germanic *ahslu (“shoulder”), from Proto-Germanic *ahsl? (“shoulder”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?s-l-eh?, from *h?e?s- (“axis, axle”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian acsle (“shoulder”), Dutch oksel (“armpit”), German Achsel (“armpit”), Swedish axel (“shoulder”), Latin axilla (“armpit”), Latin axis (“axle”),Greek ?????? (áxonas, “axle”), Sanskrit ???? (ák?a, “axle”), Sanskrit ???? (kak?á, “room, armpit”), Russian ??? (os?, “axle”).

Noun

axle (plural axles)

1. (obsolete) Shoulder.

Etymology 2

From Middle English axil, in turn a combination of Old English eax and Old Norse ?xull.

Noun

axle (plural axles)

1. The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel.
2. A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree.
3. (geometry, astronomy, archaic) An axis.

   the Sun's axle

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• axle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Axle in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Alex, Axel, Lexa, axel

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English eaxl.

Noun

axle

1. Alternative form of axel

Etymology 2

A conflation of Old English eax and Old Norse ?xull.

Noun

axle

1. Alternative form of axil

English

Etymology

From Middle English adle, from Old English ?dl (“disease, infirmity, sickness, pain, languishing sickness, consumption”), from Proto-Germanic *aidl?, *aidlaz (“burning, fever, disease”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?eyd?- (“to burn, shine”). Cognate with Middle Low German ?del (“ulcer, wound, sore”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?d?l/

Noun

adle

1. (obsolete) Sickness; disease.

Anagrams

• ALDE, Adel, Dale, Deal, Dela, E.D. La., Leda, dale, deal, lade, lead

German

Pronunciation

Verb

adle

1. inflection of adeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Middle English

Alternative forms

• adl, alde, odle

Etymology

From Old English ?dl, from Proto-Germanic *aidl?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?d?l/, /?ad?l/, /???d?l/

Noun

adle

1. disease

Descendants

• English: adle

References

• “??dle, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-10.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From German adeln

Verb

adle (imperative adl or adle, present tense adler, passive adles, simple past and past participle adla or adlet, present participle adlende)

1. to knight (someone), raise (someone) to the peerage, ennoble

Related terms

• adel

References

• “adle” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “adle” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From German adeln.

Alternative forms

• adla (a-infinitive)

Verb

adle (present tense adlar, past tense adla, past participle adla, passive infinitive adlast, present participle adlande, imperative adl)

1. to knight (someone), raise (someone) to the peerage, ennoble

Related terms

• adel

Etymology 2

Determiner

adle

1. (dialectal) neuter of all

References

• “adle” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.