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Definitions and meaning of ail

ail

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Aimele.

Symbol

ail

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Aimele.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Aimele terms

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /eɪl/
• Rhymes: -eɪl
• Homophone: ale

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English eilen, from Old English eġlan, eġlian (“to trouble, afflict”), from Proto-West Germanic *aglijan, from Proto-Germanic *aglijaną (“to trouble, vex”), cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌲𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (agljan, “to distress”).

Verb

ail (third-person singular simple present ails, present participle ailing, simple past and past participle ailed)

1. (transitive) To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions.)
2. (intransitive) To be ill; to suffer; to be troubled.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:ail.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

ail (plural ails)

1. (obsolete) An ailment; trouble; illness.

Translations

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle English eyle, eile, from Old English eġle (“hideous, loathsome, hateful, horrid, troublesome, grievous, painful”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌲𐌻𐌿𐍃 (aglus, “hard, difficult”).

Adjective

ail (comparative ailer or more ail, superlative ailest or most ail)

1. (obsolete) Painful; troublesome.

Etymology 3

Inherited from Middle English eile, eyle, eiȝle, from Old English eġl (“an ail; awn; beard of barley; mote”), from Proto-Germanic *agilō (“awn”), related to *ahaz (“ear (of grain)”). Cognate with German Achel, Egel, Ägel.

Alternative forms

• ile

Noun

ail (plural ails)

1. The awn of barley or other types of corn.

References

Anagrams

• -ial, Ali, IAL, LIA, Lai, ali-, lai

Bouyei

Noun

ail

1. cough

Further reading

• 吴启禄 (Qilu Wu), 王伟 (Wei Wang), 曹广衢 (Guangqu Cao), 吴定川 (Dingchuan Wu), editors (2002), 布依汉词典 [Bouyei–Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese), Beijing: Publishing House of Minority Nationalities, →ISBN, →OCLC

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• alj, agl, aill

Etymology

From Latin allium.

Noun

ail

1. (Vegliot) garlic

References

• Ive, A. (1886) “L'antico dialetto di Veglia [The old dialect of Veglia]”, in G. I. Ascoli, editor, Archivio glottologico italiano [Italian linguistic archive], volume 9, Rome: E. Loescher, pages 115–187

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French, from Latin allium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aj/
• Homophones: aïe, aille, ailles, aillent, ails

Noun

ail m (plural ails or aulx)

1. garlic

Derived terms

• ail des ours
• ail sauvage
• alliacé
• ailler

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: lay (from l'ail)
• Mauritian Creole: lay (from l'ail)
• Moore: lay (from l'ail)

Further reading

• “ail”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• lai, lia

Irish

Alternative forms

• oil

Etymology

From Old Irish ail (“boulder, rock”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸales-, from Proto-Indo-European *pelis-, *pels- (“stone”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alʲ/

Noun

ail f (genitive singular aileach, nominative plural aileacha or ailche)

1. stone, rock

Declension

• Archaic plural: ailche

Derived terms

• ail leachta, ail in úir (“headstone, monument”)

Related terms

• aill
• ailt

Mutation

References

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ail”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “ail”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 15; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

ail

1. alternative form of ale (“beer”)

Etymology 2

Noun

ail

1. alternative form of hayle (“hail”)

Norman

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin allium.

Noun

ail m (uncountable)

1. (Jersey) garlic

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alʲ/

Etymology 1

Possibly from Proto-Celtic *ɸalos, from Proto-Indo-European *pels-, *pelis- (“rock, cliff”), see also German Fels (“rock”).

The declension was not stable at the start of the Old Irish period, with a shift from an i-stem declension to a k-stem declension ongoing.

Noun

ail f (genitive ailech, nominative plural ailich)

1. rock
2. foundation

Inflection

Descendants

• Middle Irish: ail
  • Irish: ail

Mutation

Etymology 2

Verb

·ail

1. third-person singular present indicative conjunct of ailid

Mutation

References

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English eilen, from Old English eġlan, eġlian (“to trouble, afflict”), from Proto-West Germanic *aglijan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eːl/

Verb

ail (third-person singular simple present ails, present participle ailin, simple past ailt, past participle ailt)

1. to trouble, afflict (of body or mind)
2. to hinder, prevent
3. to be ill

References

• “ail, v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

Welsh

Alternative forms

• 2il (abbreviation)

Etymology

From Middle Welsh eil, from Proto-Brythonic *ėl, from Proto-Celtic *alyos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos (“other”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ai̯l/
• Homophone: ael (“eyebrow”) (South Wales)
• Rhymes: -ai̯l

Adjective

ail (feminine singular ail, plural ail, not comparable) (precedes the noun, triggers soft mutation of all nouns)

1. (ordinal number) second

   Synonym: eilfed

   yr ail lawr ― the second floor

Derived terms

• ail- (“re-”), eil- (“re-”)
• ail isradd (“square root”)
• eiliad (“a second”)
• eilrif (“even number”)
• heb ail (“second to none”)

Mutation

Source: wiktionary.org