nale
See also: Appendix:Variations of "nale"
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editA corrupt form arising from the older "at þen ale".
Noun
editnale (countable and uncountable, plural nales)
Etymology 2
editNoun
editnale (plural nales)
- Obsolete form of nail.
- 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Jeremy [Jeremiah] x:[3–4], folio xxviii, verso:
- They hewe downe a tre in the wod with the hondes of the woꝛke man, and faſhion it with the axe: they couer it ouer with golde oꝛ ſyluer, they faſten it wt nales and hammers, that it moue not.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “nale”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
editMiddle English
editNoun
editnale (plural nales)
- alehouse
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Freres Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- great feastes at the nale
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Silesian
editEtymology
editUniverbation of no + ale.
Pronunciation
editConjunction
editnale
Further reading
edit- nale in silling.org
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