different between wale vs nale

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?we?l/, [?we??]
• Rhymes: -e?l
• Homophones: wail, whale (in accent with the whine–wine merger)

Etymology 1

The noun is from Middle English w?le (“planking, welt”), from Old English walu (“ridge, bank; rib, comb (of helmet); metal ridge on top of helmet; weal, mark of a blow”), from Proto-Germanic *waluz (“stick, root”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”). Akin to Low German w?le; Old Norse vala (“knuckle”). The verb is from late Middle English w?len, from the noun.

Noun

wale (plural wales)

1. A ridge or low barrier.
2. A raised rib in knit goods or fabric, especially corduroy. (As opposed to course).
3. The texture of a piece of fabric.
4. (nautical) A horizontal ridge or ledge on the outside planking of a wooden ship. (See gunwale, chainwale)
5. A horizontal timber used for supporting or retaining earth.
6. A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.

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7. A ridge on the outside of a horse collar.
8. A ridge or streak produced on skin by a cane or whip.

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Related terms

• waling

Translations

Verb

wale (third-person singular simple present wales, present participle waling, simple past and past participle waled)

1. To strike the skin in such a way as to produce a wale or welt.
   • 1832, Owen Felltham, Resolves, Divine, Moral, Political:

     Would suffer his lazy rider to bestride his patie: back, with his hands and whip to wale his flesh, and with his heels to dig into his hungry bowels?

   • 2002, Hal Rothman, Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century:

     When faced with an adulthood that offered few options, grinding poverty and marriage to a man who drank too much and came home to wale on his own family or...no beatings.

2. To give a surface a texture of wales or welts.

Translations

See also

• wale on
• whale
• weal
• wheal

Etymology 2

From Middle English wale, wal, from Old Norse val (“choice”), from Proto-Germanic *wal?, *wal? (“desire, choice”), from Proto-Indo-European *welh?- (“to choose, want”). Akin to Old Norse velja (“to choose”), Old High German wala "choice" (German Wahl "choice"), Old English willan (“to want”). More at will.

Noun

wale (plural wales)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) Something selected as being the best, preference; choice.

Verb

wale (third-person singular simple present wales, present participle waling, simple past and past participle waled)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) To choose, select.

Alternative forms

• wail (obsolete)

References

• wale at OneLook Dictionary Search
• wale in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• alew, e-law, lawe, weal

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w??le/

Noun

walé f 

1. possibility

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), page 75

Fulniô

Noun

wale

1. pig

References

• 2009 (originally 1968), Douglas Meland, Doris Meland, Fulniô (Yahthe) Syntax Structure: Preliminary Version, Associação Internacional de Linguística - SIL Brasil, page 19.

Hawaiian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?va.le/, [???le]

Noun

wale

1. phlegm
2. saliva

Particle

wale

1. Used to modify the preceding word only, just, alone; quite, very; simply, for free, without reason

References

• “wale” in the Hawaiian Dictionary, Revised and Enlarged Edition, University of Hawaii Press, 1986

Middle Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wa?l?/

Adverb

w?le

1. Alternative form of wel

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English wealh, from Proto-Germanic *walhaz.

Alternative forms

• wælh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wa?l/

Noun

wale

2. (rare) An outsider; a guest; one from an unfamiliar land.
3. (rare) A thrall; a hireling.

Related terms

• Wales
• Walsch
• walmore
• walnot
• walwort

References

• “w?le, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-10.

Etymology 2

From Old English walu, from Proto-Germanic *waluz.

Alternative forms

• walle, wala

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wa?l(?)/

Noun

wale (plural wales)

2. A wooden board used for creating the exterior of a vessel; planking.
3. (rare) A welt; an injury created by use of a whip or a similar weapon.
4. (rare) A lesion; a boil.

Descendants

• English: wale, weal
• Scots: wale, wail

References

• “w?le, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-10.

Etymology 3

From Old Norse val, from Proto-Germanic *wal?, *wal?.

Alternative forms

• wayle, wall, wal

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wa?l/

Noun

wale

2. A selection or possibility; a decision.
3. (rare) A preference; something chosen due to its quality.

Related terms

• walen

Descendants

• English: wale
• Scots: wale, Scots: wail

References

• “w?le, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-10.

Adjective

wale

2. amazing, of great quality or talent.
3. pleasing, nice, enjoyable, benevolent
4. strong, firm, strengthy
5. (negatively) impactful, grievous, melancholy
6. (rare) decided, resolved, picked.

References

• “w?le, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-10.

Etymology 4

Noun

wale

1. Alternative form of wal

Etymology 5

Verb

wale

1. Alternative form of walen

Etymology 6

Noun

wale

1. Alternative form of whale

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian willa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?val?/

Verb

wale

1. (Mooring Dialect) to want

Conjugation

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?va.l?/
• Homophone: wal?

Noun

wale m inan or m anim

1. locative/vocative singular of wa?

Noun

wale m anim

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of wal

Pukapukan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *fale, from Proto-Central Pacific *vale, from Proto-Oceanic *pale, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay.

Noun

wale

1. house

   N? m?tou te wale nei.

   This is our house.

2. home

   Ka wano au ki wale kaikai.

   I'll go home and eat.

3. building

Derived terms

• waleimu (“cookhouse, kitchen”)
• walepule (“church”)
• walemaki (“hospital”)
• wale ?uli (“jail, prison”)

Further reading

• Te Pukamuna | Pukapuka Dictionary

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English wal, wale, from Old Norse val (“choice”), from Proto-Germanic *wal?, *wal? (“desire, choice”), from Proto-Indo-European *welh?- (“to choose, wish”).

Akin to Old Norse velja (“to choose”), Old High German wala (“choice”) (German wählen (“to choose”)), Old English willan (“to want”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wel/

Noun

wale (plural wales)

1. choice, selection

Verb

wale (third-person singular present wales, present participle walin, past waled, past participle waled)

1. to choose

Swahili

Adjective

wale

1. Wa class inflected form of -le.

English

Etymology

A corrupt form arising from the older "at þen ale".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ne?l/
• Homophone: nail

Noun

nale

1. (obsolete) ale
2. (obsolete) An alehouse.

   • great feastes at the nale

Anagrams

• Alne, ELAN, Lane, Lean, Lena, Neal, elan, enal, lane, lean, neal, élan

Silesian

Etymology

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

Conjunction

nale

1. but