different between aye vs nye

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

Etymology

Probably from French nid (“nest, brood”), Latin nidus (“nest”). Doublet of nidus and nest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na?/
• Homophone: nigh

Noun

nye (plural nyes)

1. A brood or flock of pheasants.

Anagrams

• -yne, Ney, Yen, eny, ney, yen

Albanian

Noun

nye m (indefinite plural neje, definite singular neni, definite plural nejet)

1. (Gheg) Alternative form of nyjë

Danish

Adjective

nye

1. definite/plural of ny

Dumbea

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naje/

Noun

nye

1. needle

References

• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "?Du?bea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
• Shintani, T.L.A. & Païta, Y. (1990) Dictionnaire de la langue de Païta, Nouméa: Sociéte d'etudes historiques de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Cited in: "Drubea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Ewe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/

Pronoun

nye

1. I

Verb

nye

1. to swerve
2. to swing

Igbo

Verb

nyè

1. give

Northern Ndebele

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-mòì.

Adjective

-nye

1. one
2. another

Inflection

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

nye

1. definite singular of ny
2. plural of ny

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

nye

1. definite singular of ny
2. plural of ny

Phuthi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-mòì.

Adjective

-nye

1. one

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Southern Ndebele

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-mòì.

Adjective

-nye

1. one
2. another

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Swahili

Pronunciation

Prepositional phrase

nye

1. Alternative form of naye

Swazi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-mòì.

Adjective

-nyé

1. one

Inflection

Swedish

Adjective

nye

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of ny.

Xhosa

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-mòì.

Adjective

-nye

1. one
2. another

Inflection

Zulu

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-mòì.

Adjective

-nye

1. (with enumerative concord or copulative adjective concord) one

2. some

3. another

4. additional, more

Usage notes

• This word only means "one" when used with the enumerative concord, or with a copulative adjective concord.
• The meaning "one" is normally used only with singular nouns. It can be used with plurale tantum nouns, in the meaning "one kind of".

Inflection

Derived terms

• kanye
• ubunye

See also

• -dwa

References

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972) , “-nye”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, ?ISBN: “-nye”