eale
English edit
Noun edit
eale (countable and uncountable, plural eales)
- Obsolete form of ale.[1]
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
- Hamlet: As infinite as man may undergo--
Shall in the general censure take corruption
From that particular fault: the dram of eale
Doth all the noble substance of a doubt
To his own scandal.
- Alternative form of yale (mythical beast)
References edit
- ^ * “eale”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
Estonian edit
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eale
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Wanderwort. Believed to ultimately derive from Hebrew יעל.
Noun edit
eale f
- A mythical African beast, based perhaps on the rhinoceros; the yale.
- c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.73:
- Apud eōsdem et quae vocātur eale, magnitūdine equī fluviātīlis, caudā elephantī, colōre nigrā vel fulvā, māxillīs aprī, maiōra cubitālibus cornua habēns mobilia quae alterna in pugnā sē sistunt variēque īnfēsta aut oblīqua, utcumque ratiō mōnstrāvit.
- Among the same people there’s also the beast that is called yale, of the size of a hippopotamus, with the tail of an elephant, of black or yellow colour, with the jaws of a boar, having movable horns longer than a cubit which in fight are raised alternatively, either forwards or obliquely, as need be.
- Apud eōsdem et quae vocātur eale, magnitūdine equī fluviātīlis, caudā elephantī, colōre nigrā vel fulvā, māxillīs aprī, maiōra cubitālibus cornua habēns mobilia quae alterna in pugnā sē sistunt variēque īnfēsta aut oblīqua, utcumque ratiō mōnstrāvit.
- c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.73:
Declension edit
Not known; only attested in the nominative singular. Dictionaries give the following declension based on the analogy of other nouns ending in -e:
First-declension noun (Greek-type).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | ealē | ealae |
Genitive | ealēs | ealārum |
Dative | ealae | ealīs |
Accusative | ealēn | ealās |
Ablative | ealē | ealīs |
Vocative | ealē | ealae |
References edit
- “eale”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “eale” in volume V 2, column 2, line 17 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
Middle English edit
Noun edit
eale
- (Early Middle English) Alternative form of hele (“health”)
Northern Sami edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
eale
- inflection of eallit:
Yola edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English ele, from Old English ǣl, from Proto-West Germanic *āl.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
eale (plural eales)
References edit
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 37