Yale
Appearance
See also: yale
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (university): Yale University (more properly)
Etymology
[edit]Ultimately borrowed from Welsh Iâl, from iâl (“clearing, cultivated upland”). The surname is habitational. The university is named for Elihu Yale, a notable early benefactor.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /jeɪl/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -eɪl
Proper noun
[edit]Yale
- A university in the eastern United States.
- 2019 May 8, Zachary B. Wolf, “How to know when it’s a constitutional crisis”, in CNN[1]:
- But all this still does not rise to the level of a constitutional crisis, according to Jack Balkin, a Yale law professor who has written in depth about the term along with University of Texas professor Sanford Levinson. Democrats in Congress can go to the courts to have their subpoenas enforced, although Balkin said that is not an ideal path.
- A romanisation scheme originating from Yale University.
- A romanisation scheme designed for Mandarin.
- Coordinate terms: Gwoyeu Romatzyh, Pinyin, Wade-Giles, Zhuyin fuhao
- A romanisation scheme designed for Cantonese.
- Coordinate term: Jyutping
- A romanisation scheme designed for Japanese.
- Hypernym: romaji
- A romanisation scheme designed for Korean.
- A romanisation scheme designed for Mandarin.
- (historical) Iâl, a commote of medieval Wales.
- A surname transferred from the place name.
Derived terms
[edit]- (university): Yalie
Translations
[edit]university
romanisation scheme
Further reading
[edit]Yale Romanization on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
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