aile
French edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ɛl/, /ɛːl/ (even with [ɛː]-distinction this word may be short)
Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛl
- Homophones: ailes (general), elle, elles (short), L (short, optionally aspirated), hèle, hèlent, hèles (short, aspirated)
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Middle French aisle, from Old French aile, from Latin āla (“wing [of animals]”).
Noun edit
aile f (plural ailes)
- wing (of a bird or other flying animal; of poultry; of an aircraft; of a building; of an army; in football and rugby; in politics)
- fender, wing (of an automobile)
- (of the nose) side, wing, ala
- sail (of a windmill)
- blade (of a propeller)
- (figuratively) wings
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Verb form of ailer.
Verb edit
aile
- inflection of ailer:
Further reading edit
- “aile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Irish edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Irish aile m (“fence, palisade”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
aile f (genitive singular aile, nominative plural ailte)
- clamp (pile of agricultural produce such as root vegetables or silage stored under a layer of earth or an airtight sheet)
Declension edit
Declension of aile
Etymology 2 edit
Adjective edit
aile
- Alternative form of eile (“other, another”)
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
aile | n-aile | haile | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aile”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
References edit
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 36
Manx edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish aingel (“angel”), from Late Latin angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
aile m (genitive singular ailey)
Middle Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish aile, from Proto-Celtic *alyos (“other, second”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
aile
- other, second
- c. 1000, Anonymous, published in (1935) Rudolf Thurneysen, editor, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó (in Middle Irish), Dublin: Staionery Office, § 1, l. 15, page 2: “Mani·tucad immurgu ní din chéttadall ni·bered a n-aill. ― If, however, he did not take anything at (literally “from”) his first thrust, he did not bring the second.”
Inflection edit
- Neuter nominative/accusative singular: aill
Descendants edit
Mutation edit
Middle Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
aile | unchanged | n-aile |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 aile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Celtic *alyos (“other, second”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
aile
Inflection edit
io/iā-stem | |||
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Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | aile | aile | aill |
Vocative | aili | ||
Accusative | aile | aili | |
Genitive | aili | aile | aili |
Dative | ailiu | aili | ailiu |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
Nominative | aili | aili | |
Vocative | aili ailiu* | ||
Accusative | aili ailiu* | ||
Genitive | aile | ||
Dative | ailib | ||
Notes | * when substantivized |
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
Noun edit
aile m or f or n
- another, the other, others
- c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 110c
- Ba bés leusom do·bertis dá boc leu dochum tempuil, ⁊ no·léicthe indala n‑ái fon díthrub co pecad in popuil, ⁊ do·bertis maldachta foir, ⁊ n⟨o⟩·oircthe didiu and ó popul tar cenn a pecthae ind aile.
- It was a custom with them that two he-goats were brought by them to the temple, and one of the two of them was let go to the wilderness with the sin of the people, and curses were put upon him, and thereupon the other was slain there by the people for their sins.
- c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 110c
- period of two days
- something else, anything else
Inflection edit
io/iā-stem | |||
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Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | aile | aile | aile |
Vocative | aili | ||
Accusative | aile | aili | |
Genitive | aili | aile | aili |
Dative | ailiu | aili | ailiu |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
Nominative | aili | aili | |
Vocative | aili ailiu* | ||
Accusative | aili ailiu* | ||
Genitive | aile | ||
Dative | ailib | ||
Notes | * when substantivized |
Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
aile | unchanged | n-aile |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 aile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Scots edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French aisle.
Noun edit
aile (plural ailes)
References edit
- “aile, n2” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish عائله ('aile), from Arabic عائِلَة (ʕāʔila).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
aile (definite accusative aileyi, plural aileler)
Declension edit
Inflection | ||
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Nominative | aile | |
Definite accusative | aileyi | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | aile | aileler |
Definite accusative | aileyi | aileleri |
Dative | aileye | ailelere |
Locative | ailede | ailelerde |
Ablative | aileden | ailelerden |
Genitive | ailenin | ailelerin |
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Walloon edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old French aile, from Latin āla.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
aile f