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Clipping of English Aymara or Spanish aymara.

ay

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Aymara.

From Middle English ei, ej, ey, eye, ultimately imitative of the natural utterance, although probably also influenced by Anglo-Norman and Old French ahi, Old French haï, and Middle French aï, aïe, ay.[1]

ay

  1. Ah! alas! Expressing anger, alarm, frustration, pain, etc.
    Alternative forms: aie, aye
    • 1559, Lucius, Anneus, Seneca, translated by Iasper Heywood, “The Preface to the Tragedye”, in The Sixt Tragedie of the Most Graue and Prudent Author Lucius, Anneus, Seneca, Entituled Troas, […], London: […] Richard Tottyll, →OCLC, signature [A5], verso:
      And ſuch as yet, coulde neuer weapon wꝛeſt, / But on the lappe are woont to dandled be, / Ne yet foꝛgotten had the mothers bꝛeſt, / How greekes them ſlew, alas here ſhall ye ſe, / To make repoꝛte therof, ay woe is me, / My ſong is miſchiefe, murder miſerye.
  2. (now chiefly Northern England and Scotland) Expressing earnestness, surprise, wonder, etc.
    • 1863, Mrs. Toogood, Specimens of the Yorkshire Dialect; quoted in “Ay (_ē_ⁱ), _int._”, in James A[ugustus] H[enry] Murray [et al.], editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes I (A–B), London: Clarendon Press, 1884–1928, →OCLC, page 601, column 2:
      Ay my word! I am glad to see you.
    • 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 137:
      Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.
    • 1888 December 9, Æthelbert [Binns], “Thoughts in Verse. On Finding a Buttercup.”, in The Keighley News, Keighley, West Yorkshire, published 16 March 1889, →OCLC, page 7, column 7:
      Ay! bonny little buttercup, what are ta dewin’ heear, / Hoddin’ up thi tiny heead, this raw, cowd time o’ t’year?
    • 1917 December 29, “Mary Maxwell; or, The Shadow on the Manse”, in The People’s Journal, Dundee, →OCLC, page 6, column 3:
      “Ay, I’m glad he’s going to be mairrit,” he said a few minutes later as he sat in the manse kitchen.
    • 1930 January 4, Northern Weekly Gazette, Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, →OCLC, page 21, column 3:
      AY BY GUM. They’ve summat to put up wi’ hez t’ tram conductors, especially wheer t’ swells lives.
    • 2011, Cynthia B. Huntington, “Full Circle”, in Through Her Eyes: An Infidel’s Perspective […], [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 88:
      Ay, lass, you’ve ruined your chances now. When you left for New York to become a Pan Am stewardess we thought you’d got it made.
  3. Used in ay, ay.

See aye.

ay

  1. (Mid-Ulster, others) Alternative spelling of aye (“yes”).

ay (plural ays)

  1. Alternative spelling of aye (“yes”).
    counting the ays and the noes in a vote

From Middle English ai, from Old Norse ei, from Proto-Germanic *aiwaz (“eternity, age”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vitality”); cognate with Old English ā, Ancient Greek ἀεί (aeí, “always”), and Latin aevum (“an age”).

ay (not comparable)

  1. (archaic, poetic or Northern England or Scotland) Always; ever; continually; for an indefinite time.
    • 1670, John Barbour, The Acts and Life of the most victorious Conquerour Robert Bruce King of Scotland, as cited in 1860, Thomas Corser, Collectanea Anglo-poetica, page 160
      O he that hath ay lived free, [...]

ay (plural ays)

  1. Alternative form of a: the name of the Latin script letter A/a.
    • 2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170:
      It said, in a whispering, buzzing voice, "Gee-you-ess-ess-ay-dash-em-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-em-eye-en-gee-oh-dash-pee-eye-pee-dash-pee-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-pee-eye-en-gee-oh."
    • 2016 CCEB, Communications Instructions Radiotelephone Procedures: ACP125 (G), p. 3-5
      ETA [is spoken] as "ee-tee-ay" instead of "I SPELL Echo Tango Alfa".

ay

  1. New Zealand spelling of eh (question tag).
    • 2013 November 13, “Surprising changes in the way Aucklanders speak”, in Stuff‎[2]:
      For example, New Zealanders tended to say "ay" at the end of sentences, but in the Asian community people used different tags to check whether people were still listening.

Origin uncertain; possibly related to eh and hey; popularized by a catch phrase in a 1970s sitcom.

ay

  1. All right (inter); hooray (inter); cool (inter).

  2. ^ “ay, int.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

ay (Kana spelling アイ)

  1. arrow

ay

  1. he

ay

  1. (Mpakwithi) vegetable

Possibly borrowed from a descendant of Sanskrit अहम् (ahám).

ay (Sanu)[1]

  1. I

  2. ^ Strand, Richard F. (2016), “ʹâi”, in Nûristânî Etymological Lexicon‎[1]

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *āy (“moon, month”). Cognate with Chuvash уйӑх (ujăh) See Turkish ay for more cognates.

ay (definite accusative ayı, plural aylar)

  1. moon
  2. month
  3. date (day of the month)
    Bu gün ayın neçəsidir? ― What date is it today?

Possibly related to Egyptian djw (“five”) or Proto-Semitic *yad- (“hand”), since the loss of d before y is known gwedi (singular) vs gwey (plural).[1]

áy m (plural **áy)

  1. hand

From ay (“hand”).

Beja cardinal numbers

< 4 5 6 >
Cardinal : ay

ay m (feminine ayt)

  1. five
  1. ^ Blažek, V. (2020). "An excerpt from the Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of Beja: Anatomical Lexicon". Folia Orientalia 57, page 36 →DOI

ay

  1. Indicates the future tense.

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *āy (“moon, month”). Compare Turkish ay (“moon, month”).

ay

  1. month
  2. moon

ay

  1. obsolete spelling of aj

Dolu Ay

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish آیْ (ay), from Proto-Turkic *āy (“moon, month”).[1] Compare Turkish ay (“moon, month”), Azerbaijani ay.

ay (definite accusative ayı, plural aylar)

  1. moon
    ay tutulması
    lunar eclipse
    (literally, “the holding of the moon”)
  2. month
    ay bitkisi
    the end of the month
    aydan aya
    from month to month

Clipping of ayoz.

ay (definite accusative ayı, plural aylar)

  1. saint

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish هَایْ (hay). Compare Turkish ay. [2]

ay

  1. (informal) Used to express joy, surprise, pain, frustraiton, shock etc., wow! oh my God! oh!
    ay, ne gözäl!
    wow, how beautiful!
    ay! Acêêr!
    Ouch! It hurts!
    ay, ne titsi!
    Oh, how terrible!
  2. (informal, when repeated twice) Used to express reproach, oh, well, eh, oh my
  1. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “ay”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  2. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “hay”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

ay

  1. leaf

From Old Spanish ha i (“it has there”).

ay

  1. there is, there are

Borrowed from Old Norse ei, ey, from Proto-Germanic *aiwa, *aiwō (“ever, always”).

ay

  1. always, constantly, unceasingly; eternally, forever

ay

  1. alternative form of ey (“egg”)

ay

  1. first-person singular present indicative of avoir

ay

  1. leaf
  2. brim (of a hat)

From Proto-Turkic *āy (“moon, month”).

ay (3rd person possessive [please provide], plural [please provide])

  1. moon

Tenishev, Edhem (1976), “ay”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow: Nauka

Inherited from Middle English ey.

ay

  1. An exclamation of surprise or wonder.

ay

  1. yes; yea; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative answer to a question

ay

  1. alternative form of aye

ay ?

  1. dog

Onomatopoeic.

¡ay!

  1. ah!, alas!
  2. woe!
  3. expresses pain, sorrow, or surprise

ay

  1. obsolete spelling of hay

ay

  1. alternative spelling of ai

Compare Hanunoo ay, Cebuano kay, Remontado Agta ay, and Ibanag ay. Similar function to Kapampangan yang, Ilocano ket and Pangasinan et.

ay (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜌ᜔)

  1. Separates the subject and the predicate. Indicative of a sentence inversion, i.e. from predicate-first form to subject-first form.
    Ako ay Pilipino. (Pilipino ako.)
    I am Filipino.
    Ika'y isang sirena. (Sirena ka.)
    You're a mermaid.
  2. then; so
    Kung gayon ay sumunod sa akin
    If that is so then follow me
  3. (dialectal) Particle used in start or end of sentences to express warning or catch attention. See also: a, o, oy, and aya / ayaa.
    Parini ka ay/Ay, parini ka. ― Come here.

From Proto-Austronesian *ai and/or Spanish ay. Related to English ay. Compare Hokkien 哎 (ai).

ay (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜌ᜔)

  1. general exclamation: alas; no; oh; oops
    Ay! Nahulog.
    Oops! It fell.

Borrowed from English i, the English name of the letter I / i.

ay (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜌ᜔)

  1. the name of the Latin script letter I/i, in the Filipino alphabet
    Synonym: (in the Abecedario and Abakada alphabet) i

From Proto-Tai *ʔajᴬ (“to cough”). Cognate with Northern Thai ᩋᩱ, Lao ໄອ (ʼai), Lü ᦺᦀ (˙ʼay), Shan ဢႆ (ʼǎi), Tai Nüa ᥟᥭ (ʼay), Aiton ဢ︀ႝ (ʼay), Ahom 𑜒𑜩 (ʼay), Zhuang ae, Saek ไอ๋, Thai ไอ (ai).

ay

  1. to cough
    da ay ― cough medicine
    ay oóc lượt ― to cough up blood
    ay oóc ngạp ― to cough up sputum
    ay khảu bẳng ― to cough into a tube (in fear of it being too noisy)
    ay mí oóc ngạp ― to have a dry cough (literally, “to cough without sputum”)
    ay bấu oóc pác ― to cough without a sound
    tầư lồm đảng, me̱n ay
    They caught the cold wind so they coughed.

ay

  1. child

Ay. (sense 1)

Proto-Turkic *āy

Old Anatolian Turkish آیْ (ay)

Ottoman Turkish آی (ay)

Turkish ay

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آی (ay), from Old Anatolian Turkish آیْ (ay), from Proto-Turkic *āy.

ay (definite accusative ayı, plural aylar)

  1. (astronomy) moon
    Ay'a ilk ayak basan insan Neil Armstrong'tur.
    The first person to set foot on the Moon was Neil Armstrong.
  2. (time) month
    Bir yılda 12 ay var.
    There are 12 months in a year.

From Ottoman Turkish آی (ay!), akin to Karakhanid [script needed] (ay!, “oh!”), Old Uyghur 𐽰𐽶𐽶 (ay!, “hey!, oh!”).

ay

  1. exclamation of surprise, shock or fear: oh!
    _Ay kim gelmiş! ― Oh, (look) who is (apparently) here!
  2. exclamation of pain: ouch!
    _Ay, başım! ― Ouch, my head (hurts)!

ay

  1. some (plural indefinite article)

Precedes the noun.

ay

  1. I (first person pronoun)

ay

  1. iron