dale
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English dale, from Old English dæl, from Proto-West Germanic *dal, from Proto-Germanic *dalą.
Noun edit
dale (plural dales)
- (slightly dated, chiefly Britain) A valley, often in an otherwise hilly area.
- c. 1587, Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love:
- And we will all the pleasures prove / That hills and valleys, dales and fields, / Woods, or steepy mountain yields
- 1797, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Kubla Khan: Or A Vision in a Dream”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published 1816, →OCLC, page 57:
- Five miles meandering with a mazy motion, / Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, / Then reached the caverns measureless to man, / And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: [...]
- 1869 May, Anthony Trollope, “The Clock House at Nuncombe Putney”, in He Knew He Was Right, volume I, London: Strahan and Company, […], →OCLC, page 113:
- The country about Nuncombe Putney is perhaps as pretty as any in England. It is beyond the river Teign, between that and Dartmoor, and is so lovely in all its variations of rivers, rivulets, broken ground, hills and dales, old broken, battered, time-worn timber, green knolls, rich pastures, and heathy common, that the wonder is that English lovers of scenery know so little of it.
- 1908, Edmund Louis Gruber, The Caissons Go Rolling Along:
- Over hill, over dale / As we hit the dusty trail, / And those caissons go rolling along.
- The sunken or grooved portion of the surface of a vinyl record.
- Antonym: hill
Derived terms edit
- acre-dale
- Airedale
- Annandale
- Borrowdale
- Calderdale
- Castle Dale
- Chapel-le-Dale
- Clarksdale
- Clydesdale
- Coverdale
- Cozaddale
- daleside
- Darley Dale
- Denby Dale
- Derbyshire Dales
- Eskdale
- Helendale
- Honesdale
- Limedale
- Lucedale
- Miller's Dale
- Monsal Dale
- Newton Dale
- Nidderdale
- Nithsdale
- Peak Dale
- Ribblesdale
- Riverdale
- Rochdale
- Sunningdale
- Swaledale
- Teesdale
- Teviotdale
- Thornton-le-Dale, Thornton Dale
- Tindall
- Tweeddale
- up hill and down dale
- Weardale
- Wensleydale
- Wharfedale
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Translations edit
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Etymology 2 edit
Related to Low German daal or Dutch daal (“lowers, descends”) and French dalle (“trough; conduit”). Attested in English since the seventeenth century.[1]
Noun edit
dale (plural dales)
- (archaic) A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.
- 1853, John Fincham, An Outline of Ship Building in Four Parts[1], page 40:
- The pump-dale scupper is that to which the dale leads, that conveys the water from the pumps to the side on the lower deck of large ships.
References edit
- ^ “dale, n.3”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dale”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams edit
Albanian edit
Alternative forms edit
- daleni (Plural)
Etymology 1 edit
From dal (“I exit, go out”); see dal for more.
Interjection edit
dale
Etymology 2 edit
Short form of ndal (“I halt, stop, rest, hold up”). See ndal and dal for more.
Interjection edit
dale
Related terms edit
- dal (active)
- dalë (participle)
- dalë, dalë (i, e)
- dalë n, dalët n
- dalë f, dala f
- dalje f, dalja f
- ngadalë
- ngadalësi f, ngadalësia f
- ngadalësim m, ngadalësimi m
- ngadalësoj (active)
- ngadalësohet (passive)
- ngadalësuar (participle)
- ngadalshëm m, ngadalshme f
- dalëngadalë
- ndal (active)
- ndalem (passive)
- ndalur (participle)
- ndaloj (active)
- ndalohem (passive)
- ndaluar (participle)
Further reading edit
- [2] interjection dale (dále) (plural daleni (dáleni)) • Fjalor Shqip (Albanian Dictionary)
Danish edit
Etymology 1 edit
See dal.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dale c
- indefinite plural of dal
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle Low German dalen.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
dale (imperative dal, infinitive at dale, present tense daler, past tense dalede, perfect tense har dalet)
Antonyms edit
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Verb edit
dale
Anagrams edit
Gothic edit
Romanization edit
dale
- Romanization of 𐌳𐌰𐌻𐌴
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old English dæl, from Proto-West Germanic *dal.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dale (plural dales)
Declension edit
Singular | Plural | |
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nominative, accusative | dale | dales |
genitive | dale | dales |
dative | dale | dalen |
Related terms edit
- dalke (probably)
Descendants edit
References edit
- “dāle, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-12.
Mogum edit
Noun edit
dale
References edit
- Association pour la Promotion de la Langue Mogum, 2012, Usunoŋten nasarawe 1. Transition de mogoum en français.
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Interjection edit
dale
Derived terms edit
Verb edit
dale
- inflection of dar:
- second-person singular imperative combined with le
- second-person singular voseo imperative combined with le
Further reading edit
- “dale”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dale (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜎᜒ)
- unprovoked attack (verbal or physical)
- (colloquial) speaking out of turn
Derived terms edit
Interjection edit
dale (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜎᜒ)
Venetian edit
Adjective edit
dale f