ael

See also: áel, äl, and æl

English

Alternative forms

• ayle
• æl
• aieul
• ail

Etymology

From Middle English aiel.

Noun

ael (plural aels)

1. (law, common law, historical) grandfather; forefather, ancestor
   • 1864, “Reports of Cases in Trinity Term, 32 Edw. I.”, in Alfred J. Horwood, editor, Year Books of the Reign of King Edward the First. Years XXXII–XXXIII, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, page 256:

     Richard de C. brought a writ of Ael against the Prior of Plumtone, and demanded so much &c. ; and counted that William his grandfather was seised &c. ; that from William it descended to William ; and from William to Richard the present demandant.

Anagrams

• Ale, E-la, EAL, ELA, Ela, LAE, LEA, Lea, ale, lea

Crimean Gothic

Etymology

Either from Turkic or from Proto-Germanic *halluz.

Noun

ael

1. stone
   • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Legationis Turcicae Epistolae Quatuor:

     Ael. Lapis.

     Stone. Stone.

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese ele.

Pronoun

ael

1. he, she, third person singular.

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *āl, from Proto-West Germanic *āl.

Noun

âel m

1. eel

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: aal
• Limburgish: aol

Further reading

• “ael”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “ael (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

Middle Irish

Noun

ael m

1. Alternative spelling of áel

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
ael	unchanged	n-ael
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Welsh

Picture dictionary

ael

penglog

talcen

ymennydd

ael

llygad

gwefus

trwyn

ceg

gên

boch

clust

arlais

gwddf

or

llwnc

gwddf

gwar

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corff

corff

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /aːɨ̯l/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ai̯l/
• Homophone: ail (“second”) (South Wales)
• Rhymes: -aːɨ̯l

Etymology 1

From Old Welsh ail (“eyebrow”), related to Old Breton guorail (“eyebrow”) (probably from guor (“over”) + ail).

Noun

ael f (plural aeliau)

1. eyebrow

   Roedd ganddo lygaid llawn, brown tywyll, gydag aeliau duon mawr.

   He had full dark brown eyes with big black eyebrows.

2. edge, brow (of a hill)

   Trowch i’r chwith ar ael y bryn.

   Turn left on the brow of the hill.

Derived terms

• aelguchiog (“frowning”)
• aeliog (“big-browed”)
• (Given name): Aelwen
• (Given name): Aelwyn
• crychu'r aeliau (“to knit one's brow”)
• dan aeliau rhywun (“surreptitiously, furtively”, literally “under someone's eyebrows”)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *aglos. Cognate with Irish ál.

Noun

ael f (plural aeloedd)

1. litter
2. brood
3. offspring

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	h-prothesis
ael	unchanged	unchanged	hael
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “ael”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies