ay
TranslingualEdit
SymbolEdit
ay
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
PronunciationEdit
InterjectionEdit
ay
- Ah! alas!
- Alternative spelling of aye ("yes")
- 1883, Howard Pyle, chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC:
- "Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow," quoth Robin, "thou seemest happy this merry morn."
- "Ay, that am I," quoth the jolly Butcher, "and why should I not be so? Am I not hale in wind and limb? Have I not the bonniest lass in all Nottinghamshire? And lastly, am I not to be married to her on Thursday next in sweet Locksley Town?"
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- "I swear also that I will honour and will cherish thee, Kallikrates, who hast been swept by the wave of time back into my arms, ay, till the very end, come it soon or late."
Derived termsEdit
NounEdit
ay (plural ays)
- Alternative spelling of aye ("yes")
- counting the ays and the noes in a vote
Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English ai, from Old Norse ei, from Proto-Germanic *aiwaz (“eternity, age”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vitality”); cognate with Old English ā, Ancient Greek ἀεί (aeí, “always”), and Latin aevum (“an age”).
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
ay (not comparable)
- (archaic, poetic or Northern England) Always; ever; continually; for an indefinite time.
- 1670, John Barbour, The Acts and Life of the most victorious Conquerour Robert Bruce King of Scotland, as cited in 1860, Thomas Corser, Collectanea Anglo-poetica, page 160
- O he that hath ay lived free, [...]
- 1670, John Barbour, The Acts and Life of the most victorious Conquerour Robert Bruce King of Scotland, as cited in 1860, Thomas Corser, Collectanea Anglo-poetica, page 160
SynonymsEdit
Etymology 3Edit
NounEdit
ay (plural ays)
- The name of the Latin-script letter A.
- 2004 Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, p. 170
- It said, in a whispering, buzzing voice, "Gee-you-ess-ess-ay-dash-em-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-em-eye-en-gee-oh-dash-pee-eye-pee-dash-pee-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-pee-eye-en-gee-oh."
- 2016 CCEB, Communications Instructions Radiotelephone Procedures: ACP125 (G), p. 3-5
- ETA [is spoken] as "ee-tee-ay" instead of "I SPELL Echo Tango Alfa".
- 2004 Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, p. 170
Alternative formsEdit
Etymology 4Edit
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): /eɪ/, (New Zealand) IPA(key): [æɪ]
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪ
- Homophones: A, eh
InterjectionEdit
ay
- New Zealand spelling of eh (question tag)
- 2013 November 13, “Surprising changes in the way Aucklanders speak”, in Stuff[1]:
- For example, New Zealanders tended to say "ay" at the end of sentences, but in the Asian community people used different tags to check whether people were still listening.
Etymology 5Edit
Origin uncertain; possibly related to eh and hey; popularized by a catch phrase in a 1970s sitcom.
PronunciationEdit
InterjectionEdit
ay
Further readingEdit
AnagramsEdit
AnguthimriEdit
NounEdit
ay
- (Mpakwithi) vegetable
ReferencesEdit
- Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 184
AzerbaijaniEdit
| Cyrillic | ај | |
|---|---|---|
| Perso-Arabic | آی | |
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Turkic *āń(k). Cognate with Chuvash уйӑх (ujăh) See Turkish ay for more cognates.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ay (definite accusative ayı, plural aylar)
- moon
- month
- date (day of the month)
- Bu gün ayın neçəsidir? ― What date is it today?
DeclensionEdit
| Declension of ay | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |||||||
| nominative | ay |
aylar | ||||||
| definite accusative | ayı |
ayları | ||||||
| dative | aya |
aylara | ||||||
| locative | ayda |
aylarda | ||||||
| ablative | aydan |
aylardan | ||||||
| definite genitive | ayın |
ayların | ||||||
ChavacanoEdit
AdverbEdit
ay
- Indicates the future tense.
Crimean TatarEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Turkic *āń(k) (“moon, month”). Compare Turkish ay (“moon, month”).
NounEdit
ay
DeclensionEdit
| nominative | ay |
|---|---|
| genitive | aynıñ |
| dative | ayğa |
| accusative | aynı |
| locative | ayda |
| ablative | aydan |
ReferencesEdit
CzechEdit
InterjectionEdit
ay
- obsolete typography of aj
GagauzEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-Turkic *āń(k) (“moon, month”). Compare Turkish ay (“moon, month”).
NounEdit
ay (definite accusative ayı, plural aylar)
DeclensionEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἅγιος (hágios).
NounEdit
ay (definite accusative ayı, plural aylar)
DeclensionEdit
Highland PopolucaEdit
NounEdit
ay
ReferencesEdit
- Elson, Benjamin F.; Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)[3] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 10
LadinoEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Spanish ha i (“it has there”).
VerbEdit
ay (Latin spelling)
Middle EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from Old Norse ei, ey, from Proto-Germanic *aiwa, *aiwō (“ever, always”).
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
ay
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “ai, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
ay
- Alternative form of ey (“egg”)
Middle FrenchEdit
VerbEdit
ay
Rayón ZoqueEdit
NounEdit
ay
ReferencesEdit
- Harrison, Roy; B. de Harrison, Margaret; López Juárez, Francisco; Ordoñes, Cosme (1984) Vocabulario zoque de Rayón (Serie de diccionarios y vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 28)[4] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 4
SalarEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Turkic *āń(k).
NounEdit
ay (3rd person possessive [[{{{1}}}#Salar|{{{1}}}]], plural [[{{{2}}}#Salar|{{{2}}}]])
ReferencesEdit
Tenishev, Edhem (1976), “ay”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow
ScotsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Probably from a use of aye to express agreement.
AdverbEdit
ay (not comparable)
SomaliEdit
NounEdit
ay ?
SpanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
InterjectionEdit
¡ay!
- Ah!, Alas!
- Woe!
- expresses pain, sorrow, or surprise
- 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:
- ¡Ay de ti si no te rebelas!
- Woe is you if you do not rebel!
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
ay
- Obsolete spelling of hay
Further readingEdit
- “ay”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Sranan TongoEdit
NounEdit
ay
- Alternative spelling of ai.
TagalogEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Compare Hanunoo ay, Cebuano kay, Remontado Agta ay, and Ibanag ay. Similar function to Ilocano ket and Pangasinan et.
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
ParticleEdit
ay
- Separates the subject and the predicate. Indicative of a sentence inversion, i.e. from predicate-first form to subject-first form.
- Ako ay Pilipino. (Pilipino ako.)
- I am Filipino.
- Ika'y isang sirena.
- You're a mermaid. (You're gay.)
- then; so
- Kung gayon ay sumunod sa akin
- If that is so then follow me
- (regional) Particle used in start or end of sentences to express warning or catch attention. See also: a, o, oy, and aya.
- Parini ka ay/Ay, parini ka. ― Come here.
Usage notesEdit
- (inversion marker): This word is often confused (by speakers of English or similar languages) to mean to be due to its similarity in location on sentences in subject-first form.
- This is usually elided to 'y following a word ending in a vowel in speech and casual and poetic writing.
Etymology 2Edit
From Proto-Austronesian *ai and/or Spanish ay. Related to English ay. Compare Hokkien 哎 (ai).
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
InterjectionEdit
ay
TàyEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Tai *ʔajᴬ (“to cough”). Cognate with Northern Thai ᩋᩱ, Lao ໄອ (ʼai), Lü ᦺᦀ (˙ʼay), Shan ဢႆ (ʼǎi), Tai Nüa ᥟᥭ (ʼay), Aiton ဢႝ (ʼay), Ahom 𑜒𑜩 (ʼay), Zhuang ae, Saek ไอ๋, Thai ไอ (ai).
PronunciationEdit
- (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA(key): [ʔaj˧˧]
- (Trùng Khánh) IPA(key): [ʔaj˦˥]
VerbEdit
ay
- to cough
- ay bấu oóc pác ― to cough without a sound
- ay khảu bẳng ― to cough into a tube (in fear of it being too noisy)
- da ay ― cough medicine
- tầư lồm đảng, me̱n ay
- They caught the cold wind so they coughed.
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- Hoàng Văn Ma; Lục Văn Pảo; Hoàng Chí (2006) Từ điển Tày-Nùng-Việt [Tay-Nung-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Từ điển Bách khoa Hà Nội
- Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary][5][6] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
- Lục Văn Pảo; Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003), Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày][7] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội
TurkishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Ottoman Turkish آی (ay, “moon, month, crescent, a beautiful face”), from Proto-Turkic *āń(k) (“moon, month”).[1]
Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰖 (y¹ /ay/, “moon, month”), Karakhanid ااىْ (āy, “moon, month”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (ay, “moon, month”), Azerbaijani ay (“moon”), Bashkir ай (ay, “moon”), Chuvash уйӑх (ujăh, “moon”), Kazakh ай (ai, “moon”), Khakas ай (ay, “moon”), Kyrgyz ай (ay, “moon”), Southern Altai ай (ay, “moon”), Tatar ай (ay, “moon”), Turkmen āý (“moon”), Tuvan ай (ay, “moon”), Uyghur ئاي (ay, “moon”), Uzbek oy (“moon”), Yakut ый (ıy, “moon”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ay (definite accusative ayı, plural aylar)
DeclensionEdit
| Inflection | ||
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ay | |
| Definite accusative | ayı | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | ay | aylar |
| Definite accusative | ayı | ayları |
| Dative | aya | aylara |
| Locative | ayda | aylarda |
| Ablative | aydan | aylardan |
| Genitive | ayın | ayların |
Related termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From Ottoman Turkish آی (ay!), akin to Karakhanid [script needed] (ay!, “oh!”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (ay!, “oh!”).
InterjectionEdit
ay
- exclamation of surprise, shock or fear: oh!
- Ay kim gelmiş! ― Oh (look) who is (apparently) here!
- exclamation of pain: ouch!
- Ay, başım! ― Ouch, my head (hurt)!
Related termsEdit
See alsoEdit
Further readingEdit
- ay in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*āń(k)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
WolofEdit
ArticleEdit
ay
- some (plural indefinite article)
Usage notesEdit
Precedes the noun.
ZaghawaEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
ay
- I (first person pronoun)
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
ay
ReferencesEdit
- Beria-English English-Beria Dictionary [provisional] ADESK, Iriba, Kobe Department, Chad