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3 letters words from 'ake'

AKE 7KAE 7
KEA 7 

2 letters words from 'ake'

AE 2EA 2
KA 6 

All 3 letters words made out of ake

ake kae aek eak kea eka

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Definitions and meaning of ake

ake

Etymology 1

From Middle English aken, from Old English acan (“to ache”), from Proto-Germanic *akaną (“to ache”). More at ache.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eɪk/
  • Rhymes: -eɪk
  • Homophone: ache

Verb

ake (third-person singular simple present akes, present participle aking, simple past aked or oke, past participle aked or aken)

  1. Archaic spelling of ache.
    • ... for let our finger ake, / And it endues our other heathfull members — Othello (Quarto 1), Shakespeare, 1622

Noun

ake (plural akes)

  1. Archaic spelling of ache.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Maori [Term?].

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑːˈkeɪ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪ

Adverb

ake (not comparable)

  1. (New Zealand) forever

Anagrams

  • eka-, kea

Bantik

Etymology

From Proto-Sangiric *ake. Often compared with Ternate ake.

Noun

ake

  1. water

References

  • ABVD

Galela

Etymology

From Proto-North Halmahera *aker (“water”).

Noun

ake

  1. water

References

  • Donald A. Burquest, Wyn D. Laidig, Descriptive studies in languages of Maluku, volume 2 (1995), page 6:
    Tabaru Galela
    [ˈakere] 'water' [ˈake] 'water'
  • Robinson Ipol, Yosafat Etha, Deidre Shelden, Galela conversations (1989): ake

Gothic

Romanization

akē

  1. Romanization of 𐌰𐌺𐌴

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qate, from Proto-Oceanic *qate, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Austronesian *qaCay.

Noun

ake

  1. (anatomy) liver (organ of the body)

Derived terms

  • akemāmā

Verb

ake

  1. to yearn for, desire

Japanese

Romanization

ake

  1. Rōmaji transcription of あけ

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English ac.

Conjunction

ake

  1. Alternative form of ac
    • approx. 1225, Hali Meidenhad (Holy Maidenhood)
      Not of low on earth, ake of the high in heaven.
    • approx. 1225, Homilies in Lambeth
      Those men.. have the name of Christians, ake though they are Christ's unwins (enemies).
    • approx. 1300, The Fox and the Wolf
      He was still, ne spake no-more, ake he worth athirst well sore.
    • circa 1350, Midland Prose Psalter
      Blessed be the man that.. ne set nowt in false judgement. Ake his will was in the will of our Lord.
    • circa 1390, Walter Hilton, On the Mixed Life
      This thought is good.. ake if a man may not lightly have salvation ne devotion in it, I hold it not speedful.
    • approx. 1450, South English Legendary: Temporale
      It ... rotted fast; ake that flesh and that blood rotteth never-more.

Etymology 2

From Old English eċe.

Noun

ake

  1. Alternative form of ache (“aching”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • aka

Etymology

From Old Norse aka, from Proto-Germanic *akaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti, from the root *h₂eǵ- (“to drive”). Doublet of åka.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²ɑː.kə/ (example of pronunciation)

Verb

ake (present tense akar or ek, past tense aka or ok, supine aka or eke, past participle aka or eken, present participle akande, imperative ak)

  1. to glide, slide slowly
  2. to glide on a sledge

References

  • “ake” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Ratahan

Etymology

From Proto-Sangiric *ake. Often compared with Ternate ake.

Noun

ake

  1. water

References

  • J. N. Sneddon, The Languages of Minahasa, North Celebes (1970)
  • J. N. Sneddon, Proto-Sangiric & the Sangiric Languages (1984), page 61

Swahili

Pronunciation

Adjective

-ake (declinable)

  1. his/her/its (third-person singular possessive adjective)
  2. their (third-person plural inanimate possessive adjective)

Inflection

See also

Ternate

Etymology

From Proto-North Halmahera *aker (“water”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈa.ke]

Noun

ake

  1. water

References

  • Yuiti Wada, Correspondance of Consonants in North Halmahera Languages (1980)
  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Tidore

Etymology

From Proto-North Halmahera *aker (“water”).

Noun

ake

  1. water

References

  • Possessive clauses in East Nusantara, the case of Tidore, in The Expression of Possession (2009, →ISBN
  • Donald A. Burquest, Wyn D. Laidig, Descriptive studies in languages of Maluku, volume 2 (1995), page 52

Source: wiktionary.org
  • to endure a dull lasting pain.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)