different between yelp vs ayelp

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?lp/
• Rhymes: -?lp

Etymology 1

From Middle English ?elp, yelp, from Old English ?ielp (“boasting, arrogance, pride”), from Proto-Germanic *gelp? (“boasting”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?el- (“to shout”).

Noun

yelp (plural yelps)

1. An abrupt, high-pitched noise or utterance.

   The puppy let out a yelp when I stepped on her tail.

2. A type of emergency vehicle siren sounding quicker and more intense than the wail.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English ?elpen, yelpen, from Old English ?ielpan (“to boast”), from Proto-Germanic *gelpan?. Compare Saterland Frisian jalpe (“to bleep; cheep”).

Verb

yelp (third-person singular simple present yelps, present participle yelping, simple past and past participle yelped)

1. To utter an abrupt, high-pitched noise.

   The children yelped with delight as they played in the cold water.

Translations

Anagrams

• Pyle

Middle English

Noun

yelp

1. Alternative form of ?elp

English

Etymology

From a- +? yelp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??j?lp/
• Rhymes: -?lp

Adverb

ayelp (comparative more ayelp, superlative most ayelp)

1. yelping.
   • 1910, Daniel Henry Holmes, Under a Fool's Cap: Songs (page 62)

     What with preachers all ayelp,
     Grinding chaff into barren grists,
     There's no spare time left for help
     With the Four Evangelists.

Anagrams

• Paley, Yaple, apely, playe, pylae