eale (countable anduncountable,pluraleales)
- Obsolete form ofale.[1]
c.1599–1602 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act I, scene iv]:Hamlet: As infinite as man may undergo--
Shall in the general censure take corruption
From that particular fault: the dram ofeale
Doth all the noble substance of a doubt
To his own scandal.
- Alternative form ofyale (mythical beast)
eale
- allativesingular ofiga
Wanderwort. Believed to ultimately derive from Hebrewיעל.
eale f
- Amythical Africanbeast, based perhaps on therhinoceros; theyale.
- c. 77CE – 79CE,Pliny the Elder,Naturalis Historia8.73:
- Apud eōsdem et quae vocātureale, magnitūdine equī fluviātīlis, caudā elephantī, colōre nigrā vel fulvā, māxillīs aprī, maiōra cubitālibus cornua habēns mobilia quae alterna in pugnā sē sistunt variēque īnfēsta aut oblīqua, utcumque ratiō mōnstrāvit.
- Among the same people there’s also the beast that is calledyale, of the size of a hippopotamus, with the tail of an elephant, of black or yellow colour, with the jaws of a boar, having movable horns longer than a cubit which in fight are raised alternatively, either forwards or obliquely, as need be.
Not known; only attested in the nominative singular. Dictionaries give the following declension based on the analogy of other nouns ending in-e:
First-declension noun (Greek-type).
eale
- (Early Middle English)alternative form ofhele(“health”)
- (Kautokeino)IPA(key): /ˈe̯ale/
eale
- inflection ofeallit:
- presentindicativeconnegative
- second-personsingularimperative
- imperativeconnegative
eale
- inflection ofeal:
- accusative/genitive/dativesingular
- nominative/accusativeplural
FromMiddle Englishel, fromOld Englishǣl, fromProto-West Germanic*āl.
eale (pluraleales)
- eel
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page37
