different between eagle vs eale

English

Etymology

From Middle English egle, from Anglo-Norman egle, from Old French aigle, from Latin aquila. Displaced native Middle English ern, earn, arn, from Old English earn (“eagle”). More at erne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i???l/
• Rhymes: -i???l

Noun

eagle (plural eagles)

1. Any of several large carnivorous and carrion-eating birds in the family Accipitridae, having a powerful hooked bill and keen vision.

   Synonyms: erne, broadwing

2. (US, numismatics, historical) A gold coin with a face value of ten dollars, formerly used in the United States.
3. (historical, numismatics) A 13th-century coin minted in Europe and circulated in England as a debased sterling silver penny, outlawed under Edward I of England.
4. (golf) A score of two under par for a hole.

Coordinate terms

(golf):

• buzzard
• bogey
• par
• birdie
• albatross
• condor
• ostrich

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• (13th-c. counterfeit coin):
  • pollard
  • rosary
  • mitre
  • leonine
  • scalding
  • crockard
  • steeping

Verb

eagle (third-person singular simple present eagles, present participle eagling, simple past and past participle eagled)

1. (golf) To score an eagle.

Translations

Further reading

• Eagle (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Aegle, aglee

Danish

Etymology

From English eagle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?i???l]

Noun

eagle c (singular definite eaglen, plural indefinite eagler)

1. (golf) eagle (two under par)

References

• “eagle” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English eagle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i?l/

Noun

eagle m (plural eagles)

1. (golf) eagle

Coordinate terms

• bogey
• birdie
• albatros

English

Noun

eale (countable and uncountable, plural eales)

1. Obsolete form of ale.
   • 1599-1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet (act 1 scene 4)

     Hamlet: As infinite as man may undergo--
     Shall in the general censure take corruption
     From that particular fault: the dram of eale
     Doth all the noble substance of a doubt
     To his own scandal.

2. Alternative form of yale (mythical beast)

Anagrams

• alee

Estonian

Noun

eale

1. allative singular of iga

Latin

Alternative forms

• eocle

Etymology

Wanderwort.

Noun

eale ? (indeclinable)

1. A mythical African beast, based perhaps on the rhinoceros; the yale.
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.73:

     Apud e?sdem et quae voc?tur eale, magnit?dine equ? fluvi?t?lis, caud? elephant?, col?re nigr? vel fulv?, m?xill?s apr?, mai?ra cubit?libus cornua hab?ns mobilia quae alterna in pugn? s? sistunt vari?que ?nf?sta aut obl?qua, utcumque rati? m?nstr?vit.

     Among the same people there’s also the beast that is called yale, of the size of a hippopotamus, with the tail of an elephant, of black or yellow colour, with the jaws of a boar, having movable horns longer than a cubit which in fight are raised alternatively, either forwards or obliquely, as need be.

References

• eale in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “eale” in volume V 2, column 2, line 17 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?e?ale/

Verb

eale

1. inflection of eallit:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative
   3. imperative connegative

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English ele, from Old English ?l, from Proto-West Germanic *?l.

Noun

eale (plural eales)

1. eel

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