different between dialect vs age

English

Etymology

From Middle French dialecte, from Latin dialectos, dialectus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diálektos, “conversation, the language of a country or a place or a nation, the local idiom which derives from a dominant language”), from ?????????? (dialégomai, “I participate in a dialogue”), from ??? (diá, “inter, through”) + ???? (lég?, “I speak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?da?.??l?kt/

Noun

dialect (plural dialects)

1. (linguistics) A variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular area, community, or social group, differing from other varieties of the same language in relatively minor ways as regards grammar, phonology, and lexicon.

   Hyponyms: sociolect, ethnolect, regiolect, geolect
2. (derogatory) Language that is perceived as substandard or wrong.
3. (colloquial) A language existing only in an oral or non-standardized form, especially a language spoken in a developing country or an isolated region.

   Synonym: vernacular

4. (colloquial) A lect (often a regional or minority language) as part of a group or family of languages, especially if they are viewed as a single language, or if contrasted with a standardized idiom that is considered the 'true' form of the language (for example, Cantonese as contrasted with Mandarin Chinese, or Bavarian as contrasted with Standard German).

   Synonyms: vernacular, (often derogatory) patois

5. (computing, programming) A variant of a non-standardized programming language.

6. (ornithology) A variant form of the vocalizations of a bird species restricted to a certain area or population.

Usage notes

• In some linguistic traditions, the term "dialect" is restricted to nonstandard lects. In scholarly English usage, it refers to both standardized and vernacular forms of language.
• The difference between a language and a dialect is not always clear, and often has more to do with political boundaries than with linguistic differences. It is generally considered that people who speak different dialects of the same language can understand each other, while people who speak different languages cannot, however, in some cases, people who speak different dialects of the same language are mutually unintelligible. Compare species in the biological sense.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Meronyms

• idiolect

See also

• dialogue

References

Further reading

• "dialect" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 105.
• Crystal, David (2008) , “dialect”, in A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 6 edition, Blackwell Publishing, ?ISBN
• Fodde Melis, Luisanna; (2002) Race, Ethnicity and Dialects: Language Policy and Ethnic Minorities in the United States, FrancoAngeli, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• citadel, dactile, deltaic, edictal, lactide

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle French dialecte, from Latin dialectos, dialectus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diálektos, “conversation, the language of a country or a place or a nation, the local idiom which derives from a dominant language”), from ?????????? (dialégomai, “I participate in a dialogue”), from ??? (diá, “inter, through”) + ???? (lég?, “I speak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dija??l?kt/
• Hyphenation: di?a?lect
• Rhymes: -?kt

Noun

dialect n (plural dialecten, diminutive dialectje n)

1. (linguistics) dialect (language variety)
2. non-standard dialect; vernacular

   Synonyms: streektaal, mondaard

Derived terms

• dialectgroep

Descendants

• Afrikaans: dialek
• ? Indonesian: dialek

Anagrams

• citadel

Romanian

Etymology

From French dialecte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.a?lekt/

Noun

dialect n (plural dialecte)

1. (linguistics) language socially subordinate to a regional or national standard language, often historically cognate to the standard, but not a variety of it or in any other sense derived from it
2. (colloquial) dialect

Declension

Derived terms

• subdialect

See also

• idiom, grai, limbaj, limb?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e?d??/
• Rhymes: -e?d?

Etymology

From Middle English age, borrowed from Anglo-Norman age, from Old French aage, eage (Modern French âge), from assumed unattested Vulgar Latin *aet?ticum, from Latin aet?tem, accusative form of aet?s, from aevum (“lifetime”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?eyu- (“vital force”). Displaced native Middle English elde (“age”) (modern eld; from Old English ieldu, eldo, ieldo (“age”)).

Noun

age (countable and uncountable, plural ages)

1. (countable) The whole duration of a being, whether animal, plant, or other kind, being alive.
2. (countable) The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive.
3. (countable) One of the stages of life.

4. (countable) The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.

5. (countable) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
6. (countable) A great period in the history of the Earth.

7. (countable) A period of one hundred years; a century.
8. (countable) The people who live during a particular period.
9. (countable) A generation.

10. (countable, hyperbolic) A long time.

12. (countable, geology) A unit of geologic time subdividing an epoch into smaller parts.
13. (countable, poker) The right of the player to the left of the dealer to pass the first round in betting, and then to come in last or stay out; also, the player holding this position; the eldest hand.
14. (uncountable) That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; specifically the size of that part.

15. (uncountable) Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.

16. (uncountable) An advanced period of life; the latter part of life; the state of being old; eld, seniority.

Synonyms

• (duration of a life): lifespan, lifetime
• (period (in years or otherwise) something has been alive): eld
• (particular period of time): epoch, time; see also Thesaurus:era
• (period of one hundred years): centennium, yearhundred
• (long time): eternity, yonks; see also Thesaurus:eon
• (latter part of life): dotage, old age, eld; see also Thesaurus:old age

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

age (third-person singular simple present ages, present participle ageing or (US) aging, simple past and past participle aged)

1. (transitive) To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.

3. (transitive, accounting) To categorize by age.

4. (intransitive) To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.

Synonyms

• (cause to grow old): mature; see also Thesaurus:make older
• (grow aged): elden; see also Thesaurus:to age

Derived terms

• age up

Translations

See also

• age on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
• Appendix:Age by decade

Further reading

• age in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• age in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• EGA, Ega, G. E. A.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse aka (“to drive”), from Proto-Germanic *akan?, cognate with Swedish åka. The verb goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h?é?eti, which is also the source of Latin ag?, Ancient Greek ??? (ág?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a???/, [?æ?j?], [?æ?æ]
• Homophone: ae

Verb

age (past tense agede, past participle aget)

1. (intransitive, dated) to drive (in a vehicle)
2. (transitive, obsolete) to drive (a vehicle), transport

Inflection

Further reading

• “age” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From a dialectal variant of haie, ultimately from Latin haga, borrowed from Frankish *haggju. More at English hedge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

age m (plural ages)

1. beam (central bar of a plough)
2. shaft

Further reading

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

Irish

Alternative forms

• aige

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /????/

Preposition

age

1. Munster form of ag (used before a possessive determiner)
   • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, printed in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry, Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études 270. Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, p. 193:

Japanese

Romanization

age

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Kott

Etymology

From Proto-Yeniseian *?aqV (“to make sour, to rot”). Compare Assan bar-ak (“rotten”) and Arin bar-oje (“rotten”).

Adjective

age

1. rotten

Related terms

• b-?ge-ja?
• d??geja?

Latin

Etymology

Imperative form of ag?

Interjection

age

1. well now, well then, come now (transition)
2. very well, good, right (sign of affirmation)

Verb

age

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

Mapudungun

Noun

age (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. (anatomy) face

References

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old Norse agi.

Noun

age

1. Alternative form of awe

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French aage, eage, from Vulgar Latin *aet?ticum, from Latin aet?s.

Alternative forms

• aage, ayge (both rare)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?d?(?)/

Noun

age (plural ages)

1. The age of someone (or rarely, something); the amount of time which someone has existed for.
2. The correct or traditional age for doing something (especially the age of maturity)
3. The state of being old, elderly, or aged; senescence or old age.
4. The life of something or someone; the length of time where a person or thing exists.
5. A period or portion of time; an age, epoch, or era.
6. Time (as an abstract concept); the passing of time.
7. (rare, in every age) A person or individual who is of a given or certain age.

Related terms

• agen

Descendants

• English: age
• Scots: age

References

• “??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-01-19.

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• ?g

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *aug?, from Proto-Germanic *augô, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ek?- (“eye, to see”). Cognates include Old English ?age, Old Saxon ?ga and Old Dutch ?ga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a??e/

Noun

?ge n

1. (anatomy) eye

Inflection

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Most dialects: uug

  Goesharde: uug, uuch

  Halligen: uuch

  Heligoland: Oog

  Sylt: Oog

• Saterland Frisian: Ooge
• West Frisian: each

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN

Portuguese

Verb

age

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of agir
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of agir

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English age

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ed?/

Noun

age (plural ages)

1. age

Verb

age (third-person singular present ages, present participle agin, past aged, past participle aged)

1. to age

References

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.