Ake in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Ake

You can make 7 words from 'ake' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 3 letters words from 'ake'
• 2 letters words from 'ake'

3 letters words from 'ake'

AKE 7	KAE 7
KEA 7

2 letters words from 'ake'

AE 2	EA 2
KA 6

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/

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/

Adverb

ake (not comparable)

1. (New Zealand) forever

Anagrams

• eka-, kea

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Bantik

Noun

ake

1. water

References

• ABVD

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Galela

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

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Gothic

Romanization

akē

1. Romanization of 𐌰𐌺𐌴

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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

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Japanese

Romanization

ake

1. Rōmaji transcription of あけ

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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”)

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Ratahan

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

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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

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Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈake]

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, page 28

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Tidore

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)