different between heath vs dale

English

Etymology

From Middle English heeth, heth, hethe, from Old English h?þ (“heath, untilled land, waste; heather”), from Proto-Germanic *haiþ? (“heath, waste, untilled land”), from Proto-Indo-European *kayt- (“forest, wasteland, pasture”). Cognate with Dutch heide (“heath, moorland”), German Heide (“heath, moor”), Norwegian hei (“heath”), Swedish hed (“heath, moorland”), Old Welsh coit (“forest”), Welsh coed (“forest”), Latin b?c?tum (“pastureland”, literally “cow-pasture”) -cetum (“place of, grove of”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hi??/
• Rhymes: -i??

Noun

heath (countable and uncountable, plural heaths)

1. A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
   • ~1602, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act I, scene I:

     1. Where the place?/2. Vpon the Heath/3. There to meet with Macbeth

2. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
   • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 258:

     There was nobody living in Jim's old house, and some of the windows was broken; but there was heath growing back and front.

   1. Many of the species in the genus Erica
   2. Many of the species in the genus Cassiope
   3. Both species in the genus Daboecia
   4. Any of the species in the genus Epacris, Australian heath
   5. Any of the species in the genus Leucopogon, beard heath
   6. Any of the species in the genus Phyllodoce, mountain heath
3. (countable) Certain butterflies and moths
   1. The palearctic species of Coenonympha, a genus of brush-footed butterfly
      1. Coenonympha pamphilus, native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and Northern Africa, the small heath
      2. Coenonympha tullia, native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and North America, the large heath
   2. Melitaea athalia, the heath fritillary
   3. Semiothisa clathrata, a moth known as the latticed heath

Usage notes

• The word heaths may describe multiple disconnected heathlands.

Synonyms

• (shrub): heather

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• hathe

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?l, IPA^(key): /de?l/
• Rhymes: -e?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English dale, from Old English dæl, from Proto-Germanic *dal?. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Doal, Dutch dal, German Low German Daal, German Tal, Swedish dal, Danish dal, Norwegian dal, Icelandic dalur.

Noun

dale (plural dales)

1. (chiefly Britain) A valley, often in an otherwise hilly area.

   Synonyms: dell, dells, vale
2. The sunken or grooved portion of the surface of a vinyl record.

   Antonym: hill

Derived terms

Related terms

• dollar

Translations

Etymology 2

Related to Low German daal or Dutch daal (“lowers, descends”) and French dalle (“trough; conduit”). Attested in English since the seventeenth century.

Noun

dale (plural dales)

1. (archaic) A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.

References

Anagrams

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

Albanian

Alternative forms

• daleni (Plural)

Etymology 1

From dal (“I exit, go out”); see dal for more.

Interjection

dale

1. come out, get out (as a request, plea or as an order)

Etymology 2

Short form of ndal (“I halt, stop, rest, hold up”) (from n- +? dal). See ndal and dal for more.

Interjection

dale

1. wait, stay, hold up

   Synonym: ndal

2. don't hurry, relax, chill

Related terms

Further reading

• [2] interjection dale (dále) (plural daleni (dáleni)) • Fjalor Shqip (Albanian Dictionary)

Danish

Etymology 1

See dal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da?l?/, [?d?æ?l?]

Noun

dale c

1. indefinite plural of dal

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German dalen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da?l?/, [?d?æ?l?]

Verb

dale (imperative dal, infinitive at dale, present tense daler, past tense dalede, perfect tense har dalet)

1. fall
2. descend
3. go down
4. sink
5. decrease
6. fall off
7. subside
8. decline

Antonyms

• stige

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

dale

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of dalen

Anagrams

• adel, lade

Gothic

Romanization

dale

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Middle English

Alternative forms

• (Early ME) dæle, deale

Etymology

From Old English dæl, from Proto-Germanic *dala-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da?l/, /d??l/, /dal/

Noun

dale (plural dales)

1. A dale or valley.
2. (rare) A hole or barrow.

Declension

Related terms

• dalke (probably)

Descendants

• English: dale
• Scots: dale, daal

References

• “d?le, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-12.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dale/, [?d?a.le]

Verb

dale

1. Compound of the informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of dar, da and the pronoun le.

Interjection

dale

1. (Argentina) OK, okey dokey, right

   Synonyms: (Mexico) sale, vale

Derived terms

• dale que dale

Venetian

Adjective

dale f

1. feminine plural of dalo