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3-letter words (3 found)

AKE,KAE,KEA,

2-letter words (3 found)

AE,EA,KA,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 7 words from ake according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

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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.
Derived terms

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.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈa.ke/, [ˈɐ.ke]

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

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

Noun

ake

  1. Alternative form of ache (“aching”)

Etymology 3

Verb

ake

  1. Alternative form of aken

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²ɑː.kə/

Verb

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

  1. e-infinitive form of aka

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

Scots

Noun

ake (plural akes)

  1. Alternative form of aik

References

  • “ake, n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

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
    ake besa ― rainwater

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”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈa.ke/

Noun

ake

  1. water

References

  • Joost Pikkert, Cheryl Pikkert, Husain Mahifa (1994) Kamus Bahasa Tidore, Indonesia, Inggris

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