adle
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English adle, from Old English ādl (“disease, infirmity, sickness, pain, languishing sickness, consumption”), from Proto-West Germanic *aidlu, from Proto-Germanic *aidlō, *aidlaz (“burning, fever, disease”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- (“to burn, shine”). Compare Middle Low German ādel (“ulcer, wound, sore”).
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Noun edit
adle
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Verb edit
adle
- inflection of adeln:
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From the oblique forms of Old English ādl, from Proto-West Germanic *aidlu, from Proto-Germanic *aidlō.
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Noun edit
adle
Descendants edit
- English: adle
References edit
- “ā̆dle, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-10.
Etymology 2 edit
Adjective edit
adle
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
adle (imperative adl or adle, present tense adler, passive adles, simple past and past participle adla or adlet, present participle adlende)
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Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
adle (present tense adlar, past tense adla, past participle adla, passive infinitive adlast, present participle adlande, imperative adle/adl)
- E-infinitive form of adla
Etymology 2 edit
From of alle with pre-occlusion; compare adde. From Old Norse allir m or late Old Norse alli n.
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Determiner edit
adle
- (dialectal) plural of all
- 1647, “LAnte oster Kraakelund”, in Den fyrste morgonblånen, Oslo: Novus, published 1990, page 42:
- Ere de no adle mætte
- Are you all full[?]
References edit
- “adle” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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Noun edit
adle
- Alternative form of addle
References edit
- “adle” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.