aile

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

French

Alternative forms

• aîle, aisle (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛl/, /ɛːl/ (even with [ɛː]-distinction this word may be short)

• Audio (Paris):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛl
• Homophones: ailes (general), elle, elles (short), L (short, optionally aspirated), hèle, hèlent, hèles (short, aspirated)

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

• à tire-d’aile
• ailaire
• ailé
• aileron
• ailette
• ailier
• avoir du plomb dans l’aile
• battre de l’aile
• donner des ailes
• en donner dans l’aile
• gagner de l’aile
• laisser une aile
• prendre sous son aile
• se sentir pousser des ailes
• traîner l’aile
• voler de ses propres ailes

Etymology 2

Verb form of ailer.

Verb

aile

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

Further reading

• “aile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish aile m (“fence, palisade”).

Pronunciation

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈelʲə/, /ˈɨlʲə/

Noun

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

Declension of aile (fourth declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative aile ailte vocative a aile a ailte genitive aile ailte dative aile ailte forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an aile na hailte genitive na haile na n-ailte dative leis an aile don aile leis na hailte

Etymology 2

Adjective

aile

1. Alternative form of eile (“other, another”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of aile

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aile	n-aile	haile	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aile”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Manx

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ail/

Noun

aile m (genitive singular ailey)

1. fire

Middle Irish

Alternative forms

• oile, eile

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈalʲə/

Adjective

aile

1. other, second
   • c. 1000, anonymous author, edited by Rudolf Thurneysen, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó, Dublin: Stationery Office, published 1935, § 1, page 2, line 15:

     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

• Neuter nominative/accusative singular: aill

Descendants

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

Mutation

Mutation of aile

radical	lenition	nasalization
aile (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-aile

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Middle Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 aile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old French

Etymology

From Latin āla.

Noun

aile oblique singular, f (oblique plural ailes, nominative singular aile, nominative plural ailes)

1. wing (anatomical structure of flying animals)

Descendants

• Middle French: aisle f, aesle, æsle
  • French: aile f
  • → Middle English: ele
    • English: aisle

Old Irish

FWOTD – 16 April 2022

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *alyos (“other, second”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈalʲe]

Adjective

aile

1. other, second, one (of two)
2. (pronominalized, with the definite article) another, the other, others
3. (pronominalized) something else, anything else
4. (nominalized) period of two days

Inflection

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

* when substantivized

Quotations

• 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.

Derived terms

• ailide
• in céin n-aili (“at another time”)
• nach aile

Related terms

• alaile, araile

Descendants

• Middle Irish: aile, oile, eile
  • Irish: eile
  • Manx: elley
  • Scottish Gaelic: eile

Mutation

Mutation of aile

radical	lenition	nasalization
aile (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-aile

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 aile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scots

Etymology

From Middle French aisle.

Noun

aile (plural ailes)

1. aisle

References

• “aile, n²”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

Turkish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑː.i.ˈle/, /aːjˈle/
• Hyphenation: a‧i‧le

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

aile (definite accusative aileyi, plural aileler)

1. family

   Synonym: ocak

2. (taxonomy) family

   Synonym: familya

Declension

Declension of aile

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

Derived terms

• aile adı
• aile bahçesi
• aile bütçesi
• aile doktoru
• aile dostu
• aile fotoğrafı
• aile gazinosu
• aile hayatı
• aile hekimi
• aile hukuku
• aile ismi
• aile mahkemesi
• aile matinesi
• aile meclisi
• aile planlaması
• aile reisi
• aile saadeti
• ailece
• ailecek
• ailevi

Walloon

Alternative forms

• aiye

Etymology

From Old French aile, from Latin āla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛːl/

Noun

aile f

1. (anatomy) wing