different between aye vs ale

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English aye, ai, a??, from Old Norse ei, ey, from Proto-Germanic *aiwa, *aiw? (“ever, always”) (compare Old English ?wo, ?wa, ?, ?, Middle Dutch ie, German je), from *aiwaz (“age; law”) (compare Old English ?(w) (“law”), West Frisian ieu (“century”), Dutch eeuw (“century”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h?eyu- (“long time”) (compare Irish aois (“age, period”), Breton oad (“age, period”), Latin ævum (“eternity”), Ancient Greek ???? (ai?n)). Doublet of aevum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e?/
  • Rhymes: -e?
• (sometimes proscribed) IPA^(key): /a?/
  • Rhymes: -a?
  • Homophones: ay, eye, I

Adverb

aye (not comparable)

2. (archaic) ever, always
   • 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner":

     The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, / And southward aye we fled.

   • 1863, Translation by Catherine Winkworth:

     Let the Amen sound from His people again; Gladly for aye we adore Him. (Praise to the Lord, the Almighty)

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:aye.

References

Etymology 2

"Appears suddenly about 1575, and is exceedingly common about 1600." Probably from use of aye (“ever, always”) as expression of agreement or affirmation, or from Middle English a ye (“oh yes”), or synthesis of both. More at oh, yea.

Alternative forms

• ay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?/
  • Rhymes: -a?
• Homophones: ay, eye, I

Interjection

aye

1. yes; yea; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative answer to a question.

Usage notes

• It is much used in Scotland, the north and Midlands of England, the northern counties of Ireland, North Wales, as well as in Australia and New Zealand (where it may follow rather than precede a statement). Also notably seen in viva voce voting in legislative bodies, etc., or in nautical contexts.

Synonyms

• yes
• yea

Antonyms

• nay
• no

Translations

References

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN

Noun

aye (plural ayes)

1. An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative.

   "To call for the ayes and nays;" "The ayes have it."

Synonyms

• yes

Translations

References

Etymology 3

Probably of multiple motivations, the sounds having been chosen for functional reasons.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a??/, /æ??/

Interjection

aye

1. (MLE, regional African-American Vernacular) an attention grabber

   Synonyms: hey, oi, I say

Anagrams

• yae, yea

Indonesian

Etymology

From Betawi aye. Doublet of saya.

Pronoun

aye

1. (Jakarta, slang) First-person singular pronoun: I, me, my

Synonyms

Other pronouns with the same meaning used in Jakarta:

• gue, ogut

Other pronouns with the same meaning used elsewhere:

• aku (informal)
• ku
• daku (poetic)
• saya (formal)
• gua, gw (Java)
• hamba

Middle English

Noun

aye (plural ayer or ayren)

1. Alternative form of ei

Scots

Etymology

From Old Norse ei, ey, cognate with Old English ?. See the etymology for the English word above.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?/

Adverb

aye (not comparable)

1. always, still

Interjection

aye

1. yes; yea; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative answer to a question

Spanish

Noun

aye m (plural ayes)

1. whine; whining; whinging

Yoruba

Noun

ayé

1. world
2. life

Noun

àyè

1. chance, opportunity

English

Alternative forms

• eale (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English ale, from Old English ealu, ealo, from Proto-West Germanic *alu, from Proto-Germanic *alu (compare Dutch aal, Swedish öl), from Proto-Indo-European *h?elut- (“beer”), or *h?elu- (“bitter”). Compare Russian ?? (ol), Lithuanian alùs, Armenian ??? (??i); compare also Latin alum (“comfrey”), al?ta (“tawed leather”), Ancient Greek ????????? (alúdoimos, “bitter”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /e?l/
• Rhymes: -e?l

Noun

ale (countable and uncountable, plural ales)

1. (dated) A beer made without hops.
2. A beer produced by so-called warm fermentation and not pressurized.
3. A festival in English country places, so called from the liquor drunk.

Synonyms

• (liquor): beer (loosely), yill

Derived terms

• alewife
• brown ale
• cakes and ale
• ginger ale
• India pale ale
• pale ale
• real ale

Related terms

• alehouse
• bridal
• gruit

Translations

Descendants

• ? Dutch: ale
• ? Finnish: ale
• ? French: ale

Anagrams

• E-la, EAL, ELA, Ela, LAE, LEA, Lea, ael, lea

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??le/

Interjection

alé

1. signifies surprise; wow!

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Bambara

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [àle]

Pronoun

ale

1. him

Basque

Noun

ale

1. grain

Declension

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al?/
• Rhymes: -al?

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *a le, from Proto-Indo-European *ályos.

Conjunction

ale

1. but

   Synonym: avšak

See also

• jenže

Further reading

• ale in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• ale in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English ale.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e?l/
• Hyphenation: ale
• Rhymes: -e?l

Noun

ale m or n (uncountable)

1. ale

Estonian

Etymology

Cognate to Finnish halme and Livvi halmeh. From either Proto-Germanic *halmaz or a Baltic language, compare Lithuanian salms and Latvian želmuo.

Noun

ale (genitive ale, partitive alet)

1. slash-and-burn (the technique)
2. the forest cut down to create new land in slash-and-burn
3. the land created through slash-and-burn

Declension

Finnish

Etymology 1

< alennusmyynti (“sale”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??le/, [??le?]
• Rhymes: -?le
• Syllabification: a?le

Noun

ale

1. (colloquial) sale (selling of goods at bargain prices)

Declension

Compounds

• alehalli
• alehinta

Etymology 2

From English ale.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ei?l/, [?e?i?l]
• Syllabification: ale

Noun

ale

1. ale (type of beer)

Declension

In speech, type 5 (risti) is normally used, giving for instance nominative singular eil, genitive eilin, partitive eiliä, nominative plural eilit and genitive plural eilien.

Anagrams

• Lea

French

Etymology

From English ale.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l/

Noun

ale f (plural ales)

1. ale
   • 1884, Joris-Karl Huysmans, À rebours, XI:

     il mangea un rosbif aux pommes et s'enfourna deux pintes d’ale, excité par ce petit goût de vacherie musquée que dégage cette fine et pâle bière.

     He ate roast beef with apples and put away two pints of ale, excited by the little taste of musky trickery given off by this fine, pale beer.

Further reading

• “ale” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin ?la.

Noun

ale f (plural alis)

1. wing

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French aller (“go”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.le/

Verb

ale

1. go

   Synonym: al

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.le/
• Hyphenation: à?le

Noun

ale f

1. (poetic) plural of ala; wings.

See also

• ali

Latin

Verb

ale

1. second-person singular present active imperative of al?

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?al?/, [?al?]

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *a le, from Proto-Indo-European *ályos.

Conjunction

ale

1. but

Further reading

• ale in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• ale in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Lule Sami

Verb

ale

1. second-person singular imperative of ij

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French aller.

Verb

ale (medial form al)

1. To go

Middle Dutch

Etymology

from Old Dutch *alo, from Proto-West Germanic *alu.

Noun

?le n

1. ale

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: aal
• Limburgish: aal

Further reading

• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “ale”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ail

Etymology

From Old English ealu, from Proto-West Germanic *alu, from Proto-Germanic *alu, from Proto-Indo-European *h?elut-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?l(?)/

Noun

ale (plural ales)

1. ale (beverage)

Related terms

• bridale

Descendants

• English: ale
• Scots: yill, ale, aill, ayll

References

• “?le, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?ale/

Verb

ale

1. second-person singular imperative of ii

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

ale (present tense el or aler, past tense ol or alte, supine ale or alt, past participle alen or alt, present participle alande, imperative al)

1. Alternative form of ala

Anagrams

• ela, lea

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *a le, from Proto-Indo-European *ályos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.l?/
• Homophones: Ale, Al?

Conjunction

ale

1. but

Particle

ale

1. (colloquial) used at the beginning of sentence for emphasis

2. used at the beginning of sentence similar to English "hey, not so fast", especially when used multiple times

Further reading

• ale in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• ale in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Verb

ale

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of alar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of alar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of alar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of alar

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.le/

Article

ale

1. of (feminine/neuter plural possessive article)

See also

• al (masculine/neuter singular)
• a (feminine singular)
• ai (masculine plural)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *a li, *a le.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /âle/
• Hyphenation: a?le

Conjunction

?le (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (Kajkavian) but
2. (Kajkavian) however

Synonyms

• ali

Spanish

Etymology

From English ale.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?eil/, [?ei?l]

Noun

ale f (plural ales)

1. ale (intoxicating liquor)

Tagalog

Noun

ale

1. stepmother
2. aunt

References

• The Tagalog Pinoy Dictionary

Tarantino

Noun

ale

1. wing (of a bird etc)

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *a le, from Proto-Indo-European *ályos.

Conjunction

ale

1. but