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- aîle, aisle (obsolete)
- IPA(key): /ɛl/, /ɛːl/ (even with [ɛː]-distinction this word may be short)
- Rhymes: -ɛl
- Homophones: ailes (general), elle, elles (short), L (short, optionally aspirated), hèle, hèlent, hèles (short, aspirated)
Inherited from Middle French aisle, from Old French aile, from Latin āla (“wing [of animals]”).
aile f (plural ailes)
- 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)
- fender, wing (of an automobile)
- (of the nose) side, wing, ala
- sail (of a windmill)
- blade (of a propeller)
- (figuratively) wings
- 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
Verb form of ailer.
aile
- inflection of ailer:
- “aile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
From Old Irish aile m (“fence, palisade”).
aile f (genitive singular **aile, nominative plural ailte)
- clamp (pile of agricultural produce such as root vegetables or silage stored under a layer of earth or an airtight sheet)
aile
- Alternative form of eile (“other, another”)
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.
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aile”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 90, page 36
From Old Irish aingel (“angel”), from Late Latin angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger”).
aile m (genitive singular ailey)
From Old Irish aile, from Proto-Celtic *alyos (“other, second”).
aile
- 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 im_murgu_ 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.
- c. 1000, anonymous author, edited by Rudolf Thurneysen, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó, Dublin: Stationery Office, published 1935, § 1, page 2, line 15:
Mutation of aile
| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| aile | unchanged | n-aile |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Middle Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 aile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
aile oblique singular, f (oblique plural ailes, nominative singular **aile, nominative plural ailes)
- wing (anatomical structure of flying animals)
From Proto-Celtic *alyos (“other, second”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos.
aile
- other, second, one (of two)
- (pronominalized, with the definite article) another, the other, others
- (pronominalized) something else, anything else
- (nominalized) period of two days
- 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. - ailide
- in céin n-aili (“at another time”)
- nach aile
- alaile, araile
- Middle Irish: aile, oile, eile
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.
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 aile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
From Middle French aisle.
aile (plural ailes)
- “aile, n2”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
From Ottoman Turkish عائله ('aile), from Arabic عائِلَة (ʕāʔila).
aile (definite accusative aileyi, plural aileler)
From Old French aile, from Latin āla.
aile f