aile

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See also: Aile, Áile, ailé, àile, and aîle

French[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ɛl/, /ɛːl/ (even with [ɛː]-distinction this word may be short)
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛl
  • Homophones: ailes (general), elle, elles (short), L (short, optionally aspirated), hèle, hèlent, hèles (short, aspirated)

Etymology 1[edit]

Inherited from Middle French aisle, from Old French aile, from Latin āla (wing [of animals]).

Noun[edit]

aile f (plural ailes)

  1. wing (of a bird or other flying animal; of poultry; of an aircraft; of a building; of an army; in football and rugby; in politics)
  2. fender, wing (of an automobile)
  3. (of the nose) side, wing, ala
  4. sail (of a windmill)
  5. blade (of a propeller)
  6. (figuratively) wings
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Verb form of ailer.

Verb[edit]

aile

  1. inflection of ailer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading[edit]

Irish[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Irish aile m (fence, palisade).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

aile f (genitive singular aile, nominative plural ailte)

  1. clamp (pile of agricultural produce such as root vegetables or silage stored under a layer of earth or an airtight sheet)
Declension[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Adjective[edit]

aile

  1. Alternative form of eile (other, another)

Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
aile n-aile haile not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 36

Manx[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Irish aingel (angel), from Late Latin angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, messenger).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

aile m (genitive singular ailey)

  1. fire

Middle Irish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Irish aile, from Proto-Celtic *alyos (other, second).

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

aile

  1. other, second
    • c. 1000, Anonymous; published in (1935), Rudolf Thurneysen, editor, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó, Dublin: Staionery Office, § 1, l. 15, page 2: “Mani·tucad immurgu ní din chéttadall ni·bered a n-aill. [If, however, he did not take anything at (literally from) his first thrust, he did not bring the second.]”

Inflection[edit]

  • Neuter nominative/accusative singular: aill

Descendants[edit]

  • Irish: eile
  • Manx: elley
  • Scottish Gaelic: eile

Mutation[edit]

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

Further reading[edit]

Old Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Celtic *alyos (other, second).

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

aile

  1. other, second, one (of two)

Inflection[edit]

io/iā-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative aile aile aill
Vocative aili
Accusative aile aili
Genitive aili aile aili
Dative ailiu aili ailiu
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative aili aili
Vocative aili
ailiu*
Accusative aili
ailiu*
Genitive aile
Dative ailib
Notes * when substantivized

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

Noun[edit]

aile m or f or n

  1. another, the other, others
    • c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 110c
      Ba bés leusom do·bertis dá boc leu dochum tempuil, ⁊ no·léicthe indala n‑ái fon díthrub co pecad in popuil, ⁊ do·bertis maldachta foir, ⁊ n⟨o⟩·oircthe didiu and ó popul tar cenn a pecthae ind aile.
      It was a custom with them that two he-goats were brought by them to the temple, and one of the two of them was let go to the wilderness with the sin of the people, and curses were put upon him, and thereupon the other was slain there by the people for their sins.
  2. period of two days
  3. something else, anything else

Inflection[edit]

io/iā-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative aile aile aile
Vocative aili
Accusative aile aili
Genitive aili aile aili
Dative ailiu aili ailiu
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative aili aili
Vocative aili
ailiu*
Accusative aili
ailiu*
Genitive aile
Dative ailib
Notes * when substantivized

Mutation[edit]

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

Further reading[edit]

Scots[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle French aisle.

Noun[edit]

aile (plural ailes)

  1. aisle

References[edit]

Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Ottoman Turkish عائله ('aile), from Arabic عائِلَة (ʕāʔila).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ɑː.i.ˈle/
  • Hyphenation: a‧i‧le
  • (file)

Noun[edit]

aile (definite accusative aileyi, plural aileler)

  1. family
  2. (taxonomy) family

Declension[edit]

Inflection
Nominative aile
Definite accusative aileyi
Singular Plural
Nominative aile aileler
Definite accusative aileyi aileleri
Dative aileye ailelere
Locative ailede ailelerde
Ablative aileden ailelerden
Genitive ailenin ailelerin
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular ailem ailelerim
2nd singular ailen ailelerin
3rd singular ailesi aileleri
1st plural ailemiz ailelerimiz
2nd plural aileniz aileleriniz
3rd plural aileleri aileleri
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular ailemi ailelerimi
2nd singular aileni ailelerini
3rd singular ailesini ailelerini
1st plural ailemizi ailelerimizi
2nd plural ailenizi ailelerinizi
3rd plural ailelerini ailelerini
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular aileme ailelerime
2nd singular ailene ailelerine
3rd singular ailesine ailelerine
1st plural ailemize ailelerimize
2nd plural ailenize ailelerinize
3rd plural ailelerine ailelerine
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular ailemde ailelerimde
2nd singular ailende ailelerinde
3rd singular ailesinde ailelerinde
1st plural ailemizde ailelerimizde
2nd plural ailenizde ailelerinizde
3rd plural ailelerinde ailelerinde
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular ailemden ailelerimden
2nd singular ailenden ailelerinden
3rd singular ailesinden ailelerinden
1st plural ailemizden ailelerimizden
2nd plural ailenizden ailelerinizden
3rd plural ailelerinden ailelerinden
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular ailemin ailelerimin
2nd singular ailenin ailelerinin
3rd singular ailesinin ailelerinin
1st plural ailemizin ailelerimizin
2nd plural ailenizin ailelerinizin
3rd plural ailelerinin ailelerinin

Synonyms[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Walloon[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old French aile, from Latin āla.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

aile f

  1. (anatomy) wing