a' (notcomparable)

1. Alternative spelling ofa(“all”)[First attested from 1350 to 1470.]

a' (notcomparable)

1. Alternative spelling ofa(“all”)[First attested from 1350 to 1470.]

a'

1. (archaic)Alternative form ofa(“in”).
   • 1661, Samuel Tuke, "The Adventures of Five Hours", in1876, Robert Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt,A Select Collection of Old English Plays, page 217:

     SIL. What,a' God's name, could come into the heads

     Of this people to make them rebel?

     ERN. Why, religion; that came into their heads

     A' God's name.

     GER. But what a devil made the noblemen

     Rebel? they never mind religion.

a'

1. you

• IPA^(key): /ə/

a’

1. (nonstandard)contraction ofan, used to form direct and indirect questions
   • 1894 March, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, inIrisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages185–88:

     Chonnaic sé cailín ag nigheachán i sruthán le cois an bhealaigh mhóir ⁊ chuir sé an tiománach síos ag fiafraighe dia’ bpósfadh sí é.[…] Chuaidh an rí é féin síos annsin ⁊ d’fhiafraigh dhia’ bpósfadh sí é.

     He saw a girl washing in a stream by the roadside, and he sent his driver down to ask her if she would marry him. […] The king himself then went down, and asked her would she marry him.

• IPA^(key): /a/^°
• Rhymes:-a
• Hyphenation:a'

a'

1. (Tuscan or literary)truncation ofai(“to them pl”,contraction ofai)

• a,ah,a-

• IPA^(key): /a/^*
• Rhymes:-a
• Hyphenation:a'

a'

1. (regional, informal)uttered before a noun to call whoever it is referred to

   A' Gigi, viè qua!

   Gigi, come here!

   E che me lassate qua?A' 'nfami!

   Are you leaving me here?You bastards!

• ahó

a'

1. Rōmaji transcription ofあっ

• a,aw
• aa,aal(Shetland)

FromMiddle Englishall, fromOld Englisheall(“all, every, entire, whole, universal”), fromProto-West Germanic*all, fromProto-Germanic*allaz(“all, whole, every”), perhaps fromProto-Indo-European*h₂el-(“all”).

• IPA^(key): /ɑː/,/ɔː/
• (Northern Scots, Insular Scots)IPA^(key): /aː(l)/

a'

1. all

a'

1. all
   • 1852–1859, Lady John Scott, “Annie Laurie”, inScottish Songs‎^[1]:

     / Like dew on the gowan lying / Is the fa' o' her fairy feet; / And like winds in summer sighing, / Her voice is low and sweet— / Her voice is low and sweet, / And she'sa' the world to me, / And for bonnie Annie Laurie / I'd lay me doon and dee.

     (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)

a' (uncountable)

1. all
   • 1825, “Who’s at My Window”, inAllan Cunningham, compiler,The Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern; […] In Four Volumes, volume III, London: Printed forJohn Taylor, […],→OCLC,page334:

     There’s mirth in the barn and theha’, the ha’, / There’s mirth in the barn and the ha’: / There's quaffing and laughing, / And dancing and daffing; / And our young bride’s daftest ofa’, ofa’, / And our young bride’s daftest ofa’.

     (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)

• an a'

• “a',adj.,adv.”, inThe Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh:Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present,→OCLC.
• Eagle, Andy, editor (2025), “a'”, inThe Online Scots Dictionary‎^[2]

• IPA^(key): /ə/

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

a'

1. inflection ofan(“the”):
   1. dative orgenitivesingularmasculine precedingg-,c-,b-,m- orp-
   2. nominative ordativesingularfeminine precedingg-,c-,b-,m-,p-

   Seall aira' corra-lod! ―Look atthe mess!

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

a'

1. (before consonants)apocopic form ofag

   Tha Seoca' fuireach ann an Glaschu. - Jock lives in Glasgow.

   Dè tha thua' leughadh? - What are you reading?

• In theLewis dialect,ri is used instead.
• Scottish Gaelic has nosimple presenttense of regular verbs, so constructions witha',ag, orri are used for both simple andprogressive present tenses in English.

Blend ofa +‎'a.

a'

1. atthe

a'

1. (Hua dialect)woman

• John Haiman,Hua, a Papuan Language of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea

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