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Yes. The word aye is a Scrabble US word. The word aye is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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3-letter words (3 found)

AYE,YAE,YEA,

2-letter words (5 found)

AE,AY,EA,YA,YE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 9 words from aye according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of aye

aye

Translingual

Symbol

aye

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

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Ayere terms

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English ay, ai, aȝȝ, from Old Norse ei, ey, from Proto-Germanic *aiwa, *aiwō (“ever, always”) (compare Old English āwo, āwa, ā, ō, Middle Dutch ie, German je), from *aiwaz (“age; law”) (compare Old English ǣ(w) (“law”), West Frisian ieu (“century”), Dutch eeuw (“century”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“long time”) (compare Irish aois (“age, period”), Breton oad (“age, period”), Latin ævum (“eternity”), Ancient Greek αἰών (aiṓn)). Doublet of aeviternity and aevum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eɪ/
    • Rhymes: -eɪ
  • (sometimes proscribed) IPA(key): /aɪ/
    • Rhymes: -aɪ
    • Homophones: ay, eye, I

Adverb

aye (not comparable)

  2. (archaic) ever, always
Quotations
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:aye.
Derived terms
References
Further reading
  • Joseph Wright, editor (1898), “AYE, adv.1.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume I (A–C), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 104.

Etymology 2

"Appears suddenly about 1575, and is exceedingly common about 1600." Probably from use of aye (“ever, always”) as expression of agreement or affirmation, or from Middle English a ye (“oh yes”), or synthesis of both. Compare Faroese ája (“certainly, ah yes”). More at oh, yea. Online Etymology Dictionary also with these posits a possible descent from I (as if clipped from e.g. "I assent").

Alternative forms

  • ay

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aɪ/
    • Rhymes: -aɪ
  • Homophones: ay, eye, I

Interjection

aye

  1. yes; yea; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative answer to a question.
  2. (nautical) a word used to acknowledge a command from a superior, usually preceded by a verbatim repeat-back.
Usage notes
  • It is much used in Scotland, the north and Midlands of England, Northern Ireland, and North Wales, as well as in New Zealand (where it may follow rather than precede a statement). Also notably seen in viva voce voting in legislative bodies, etc., or in nautical contexts.
Synonyms
  • yes
  • yea
Antonyms
  • nay
  • no
Derived terms
Translations
References
  • Frank Graham, editor (1987), “AYE”, in The New Geordie Dictionary, Rothbury, Northumberland: Butler Publishing, →ISBN.
  • Scott Dobson, Dick Irwin “aye”, in Newcastle 1970s: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎[2], archived from the original on 2024-09-05.
  • Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “aye”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN.
  • Joseph Wright, editor (1898), “AYE, adv.2.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume I (A–C), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, pages 104-105.

Verb

aye (third-person singular simple present ayes, present participle ayeing or (now nonstandard) aying, simple past and past participle ayed)

  1. To respond with an "aye".

Noun

aye (plural ayes)

  1. An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative.
Synonyms
  • yes
Translations

References

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aɪ/, /eɪ/
    • (New Zealand) IPA(key): [æe̯]

Interjection

aye

  1. (MLE, MTE, regional African-American Vernacular, Chicano) Misspelling of eh.
  2. (New Zealand) Alternative spelling of ay (question tag)

Anagrams

  • yae, yea

Baba Malay

Etymology

From Malay air (“water”).

Noun

aye

  1. water

References

Franco-Provençal

Noun

aye

  1. plural of aya

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Betawi ayè. Doublet of saya.

Pronoun

aye

  1. (Jakarta, colloquial) First-person singular pronoun: I, me, my

Synonyms

Other pronouns with the same meaning used in Jakarta:

  • gue, ogut

Other pronouns with the same meaning used elsewhere:

  • aku (informal)
  • ku
  • daku (poetic)
  • saya (formal)
  • gua, gw (Java)
  • hamba

Isoko

Noun

aye (plural eyae)

  1. dated spelling of ayị

Kerinci

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈje/

Noun

aye

  1. water

References

  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*wahiR”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Further reading

  • Usman, A. Hakim (1985) “aye”, in Kamus Umum Kerinci—Indonesia, Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa

Middle English

Noun

aye

  1. alternative form of ey (“egg”)

Scots

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aɪ/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ei, ey, cognate with Old English ā. See the etymology for the English word above.

Alternative forms

  • ay, ey

Adverb

aye (not comparable)

  1. always, still

Etymology 2

Interjection

aye

  1. yes; alternative form of ay

References

  • “ay, adv.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
  • “ay, interj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.
  • “aye, adv.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -aʝe
  • Syllabification: a‧ye

Noun

aye m (plural ayes)

  1. whine; whining; whinging

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English ay, from Old Norse ey.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eː/

Adverb

aye

  1. ever

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 116

Yoruba

Alternative forms

  • ايعِ
  • aiyé (archaic)

Etymology 1

Cognate with Edo aye

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ā.jé/

Noun

ayé

  1. world
  2. life
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /à.jè/

Noun

àyè

  1. chance, opportunity
Derived terms
  • ráyè (“to get the opportunity”)

Etymology 3

Alternative forms

  • aè, àè

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ā.jè/, /à.jè/

Noun

àyè

  1. (Ekiti) lies, falsehood
    Synonyms: irọ́, ụrọ́, èké
Derived terms
  • ṣàyè (“to lie”)
  • Ifáàláyè
  • Fáláè
  • Aóòláyè
  • Ọbànị̀fọ̀nṣaè

Source: wiktionary.org