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4-letter words (3 found)

ALEW,WALE,WEAL,

3-letter words (7 found)

ALE,AWE,AWL,LAW,LEA,LEW,WAE,

2-letter words (8 found)

AE,AL,AW,EA,EL,EW,LA,WE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 19 words from wale according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of wale

wale

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈweɪl/, [ˈweɪɫ]
  • Rhymes: -eɪl
  • Homophones: wail; whale (wine–whine merger)

Etymology 1

The noun is from Middle English wāle (“planking, welt”), from Old English walu (“ridge, bank; rib, comb (of helmet); metal ridge on top of helmet; weal, mark of a blow”), from Proto-Germanic *waluz (“stick, root”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”). Akin to Low German wāle; Old Norse vala (“knuckle”). The verb is from late Middle English wālen, from the noun.

Noun

wale (plural wales)

  1. A ridge or low barrier.
  2. A raised rib in knitted goods or fabric, especially corduroy.
    Coordinate term: course
  3. The texture of a piece of fabric.
  4. (nautical) A horizontal ridge or ledge on the outside planking of a wooden ship. (See gunwale, chainwale)
  5. A horizontal timber used for supporting or retaining earth.
  6. A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
  7. A ridge on the outside of a horse collar.
  8. A ridge or streak produced on skin by a cane or whip.
Related terms
  • waling
Translations

Verb

wale (third-person singular simple present wales, present participle waling, simple past and past participle waled)

  1. To strike the skin in such a way as to produce a wale or welt.
  2. To beat a person, especially as punishment or out of anger.
  3. To give a surface a texture of wales or welts.
Translations

See also

  • wale on
  • whale
  • weal
  • wheal

Etymology 2

From Middle English wale, wal, from Old Norse val (“choice”), from Proto-Germanic *walą, *walō (“desire, choice”), from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose, want”). Akin to Old Norse velja (“to choose”), Old High German wala "choice" (German Wahl "choice"), Old English willan (“to want”). More at will.

Noun

wale (plural wales)

  1. (Scotland, Northern England) Something selected as being the best, preference; choice.

Verb

wale (third-person singular simple present wales, present participle waling, simple past and past participle waled)

  1. (Scotland, Northern England) To choose, select.
Alternative forms
  • wail (obsolete)

References

  • “wale”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “wale”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • alew, e-law, lawe, weal

Afar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /waˈle/ [wʌˈlɛ]
  • Hyphenation: wa‧le

Noun

walé f 

  1. possibility

References

  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 75

Fulniô

Noun

wale

  1. pig

References

  • 2009 (originally 1968), Douglas Meland, Doris Meland, Fulniô (Yahthe) Syntax Structure: Preliminary Version, Associação Internacional de Linguística - SIL Brasil, page 19.

Hawaiian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwa.le/, [ˈʋɐ.le]

Etymology 1

Compare with Maori ware “excretion, gum, wax, saliva”, Rarotongan vare “slime”, Tahitian vare “discharge esp. rheum or sleep of the eye” and varea “drowsy (i.e. to have sleep on one's eyes)”; Samoan vavale “snail slime”.

Noun

wale

  1. any bodily secretion or mucus including phlegm, saliva
  2. any plant exudation or sap

See also

  • kūkae

References

Etymology 2

  • (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Particle

wale

  1. Used to modify the preceding word only, just, alone; quite, very; simply, for free, without reason

References

  • Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “wale”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press

Middle Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwaːlə/

Adverb

wāle

  1. Alternative form of wel

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English wealh. For the phonological development, compare hale.

Alternative forms

  • wælh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwaːl(ə)/

Noun

wale

  1. (rare) An outsider; a guest; one from an unfamiliar land.
  2. (rare) A thrall; a hireling.
Related terms
  • Wales
  • Walsch
  • walmore
  • walnot
  • walwort
References
  • “wāle, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-10.

Etymology 2

From Old English walu, from Proto-West Germanic *walu, from Proto-Germanic *waluz.

Alternative forms

  • walle, wala

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwaːl(ə)/

Noun

wale (plural wales)

  1. A wooden board used for creating the exterior of a vessel; planking.
  2. (rare) A welt; an injury created by use of a whip or a similar weapon.
  3. (rare) A lesion; a boil.
Descendants
  • English: wale, weal
  • Scots: wale, wail
References
  • “wāle, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-10.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Old Norse *valu, earlier form of vǫl, variant of val, from Proto-Germanic *walą.

Alternative forms

  • wal, wall, wayle

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwaːl(ə)/

Noun

wale

  1. A selection or possibility; a decision.
  2. (rare) A preference; something chosen due to its quality.
Related terms
  • walen
Descendants
  • English: wale
  • Scots: wale, Scots: wail
References
  • “wāle, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-10.

Adjective

wale

  2. amazing, of great quality or talent.
  3. pleasing, nice, enjoyable, benevolent
  4. strong, firm, strengthy
  5. (negatively) impactful, grievous, melancholy
  6. (rare) decided, resolved, picked.
References
  • “wāle, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-10.

Etymology 4

Noun

wale

  1. Alternative form of vale

Etymology 5

Noun

wale

  1. Alternative form of wal

Etymology 6

Verb

wale

  1. Alternative form of walen

Etymology 7

Noun

wale

  1. Alternative form of whal

North Frisian

Alternative forms

  • wel (Föhr-Amrum, Sylt)

Etymology

From Old Frisian willa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvalə/

Verb

wale

  1. (Mooring) to want

Conjugation

Old English

Noun

wale

  1. inflection of walu:
    1. accusative/genitive/dative singular
    2. nominative/accusative plural

Polish

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -alɛ
  • Syllabification: wa‧le
  • Homophone: walę

Etymology 1

From wał +‎ -e.

Noun

wale nvir pl

  1. (Przemyśl, construction) straw rope dipped in clay used in the construction of chimneys

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

wale m inan or m animal

  1. locative/vocative singular of wał

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

wale m animal

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of wal

Further reading

  • Aleksander Saloni (1899) “wale”, in “Lud wiejski w okolicy Przeworska”, in M. Arct, E. Lubowski, editors, Wisła : miesięcznik gieograficzno-etnograficzny (in Polish), volume 13, Warsaw: Artur Gruszecki, page 246)

Pukapukan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *fale, from Proto-Central Pacific *vale, from Proto-Oceanic *pale, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay.

Noun

wale

  1. house
  2. home
  3. building

Derived terms

  • waleimu (“cookhouse, kitchen”)
  • walepule (“church”)
  • walemaki (“hospital”)
  • wale āuli (“jail, prison”)

Further reading

  • Te Pukamuna | Pukapuka Dictionary

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English wal, wale, from Old Norse val (“choice”), from Proto-Germanic *walą, *walō (“desire, choice”), from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose, wish”).

Akin to Old Norse velja (“to choose”), Old High German wala (“choice”) (German wählen (“to choose”)), Old English willan (“to want”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wel/

Noun

wale (plural wales)

  1. choice, selection

Verb

wale (third-person singular simple present wales, present participle walin, simple past waled, past participle waled)

  1. to choose

Swahili

Adjective

wale

  1. wa class(II) inflected form of -le

Verb

wale

  1. third-person plural subjunctive of -la

Ternate

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈwa.le]

Verb

wale

  1. (intransitive) to swing ones arms

Conjugation

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Source: wiktionary.org