Abbreviation ofEnglish Ai mel e
ail
( international standards ) ISO 639-3 language code forAimele . Inherited fromMiddle English eilen Old English eġlan eġlian ( “ to trouble, afflict ” ) , fromProto-West Germanic *aglijan Proto-Germanic *aglijaną ( “ to trouble, vex ” ) , cognate withGothic 𐌰𐌲𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 ( agljan “ to distress ” ) .
ail (third-person singular simple present ails present participle ailing simple past and past participle ailed
( transitive ) suffer ; totrouble ,afflict . (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions.)Have some chicken soup. It's good for whatails you.
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( intransitive ) ill ; tosuffer ; to betroubled .ail (plural ails
( obsolete ) ailment ;trouble ; illness.An ailment; trouble; illness
Inherited fromMiddle English eyle eile Old English eġle ( “ hideous, loathsome, hateful, horrid, troublesome, grievous, painful ” ) . Cognate withGothic 𐌰𐌲𐌻𐌿𐍃 ( aglus “ hard, difficult ” ) .
ail (comparative ailer or moreail ,superlative ailest or mostail )
( obsolete ) Painful ;troublesome .Inherited fromMiddle English eile eyle eiȝle Old English eġl ( “ an ail; awn; beard of barley; mote ” ) , fromProto-Germanic *agilō ( “ awn ” ) , related to*ahaz ( “ ear (of grain) ” ) .[ 1] German Achel Egel Ägel
ail (plural ails
( West Country ) awn ofbarley or other types ofcorn .ail
cough 吴启禄 (Qilu Wu),王伟 (Wei Wang),曹广衢 (Guangqu Cao),吴定川 (Dingchuan Wu), editors (2002 ),布依汉词典 Bouyei–Chinese Dictionary →ISBN →OCLC FromLatin allium
ail
( Vegliot ) garlic Ive, A. (1886 ), “L'antico dialetto di Veglia [The old dialect of Veglia ]”, inG. I. Ascoli , editor,Archivio glottologico italiano [Italian linguistic archive 115–187 Inherited fromOld French Latin allium
ail m plural ails or aulx
garlic Haitian Creole:lay ( froml' ail ) Mauritian Creole:lay ( froml' ail ) Moore:lay ( froml' ail ) FromOld Irish ail ( “ boulder, rock ” ) ,[ 1] Proto-Celtic *ɸales- Proto-Indo-European *pelis- ,*pels- ( “ stone ” ) .[ 2]
ail f genitive singular aileach nominative plural aileacha or ailche
stone ,rock Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019 ), “1 ail ”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009 ), “*fales-”, inEtymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden:Brill ,→ISBN page120 ^ Finck, F. N. (1899 ),Die araner mundart The Aran Dialect Second volume: Dictionary ], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page22 Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977 ), “ail ”, inFoclóir Gaeilge–Béarla , Dublin: An Gúm,→ISBN Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927 ), “ail ”, inFoclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla page15 ; reprinted with additions1996 ,→ISBN ail
alternative form ofale ( “ beer ” ) ail
alternative form ofhayle ( “ hail ” ) FromOld French Latin allium
ail m uncountable
( Jersey ) garlic Possibly fromProto-Celtic *ɸalos Proto-Indo-European *pels- *pelis- ( “ rock, cliff ” ) , see alsoGerman Fels ( “ rock ” ) .[ 1]
The declension was not stable at the start of the Old Irish period, with a shift from an i-stem declension to a k-stem declension ongoing.
ail f genitive ailech nominative plural ailich
rock foundation Initial mutations of a following adjective:
H = triggers aspirationL = triggers lenitionN = triggers nasalizationInitial mutations of a following adjective:
H = triggers aspirationL = triggers lenitionN = triggers nasalizationMutation ofail radical lenition nasalization ail ( pronounced with/h/ inh -prothesis environments ) ail n-ail
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
·ail
third-person singular present indicative conjunct ofailid Mutation of·ail radical lenition nasalization ·ail ( pronounced with/h/ inh -prothesis environments ) ·ail ·n-ail
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
FromMiddle English eilen Old English eġlan eġlian ( “ to trouble, afflict ” ) , fromProto-West Germanic *aglijan
ail (third-person singular simple present ails present participle ailin simple past and past participle ailt
totrouble ,afflict (of body or mind) tohinder ,prevent to beill FromMiddle Welsh eil Proto-Brythonic *ėl Proto-Celtic *alyos Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos ( “ other ” ) .
ail (feminine singular ail plural ail notcomparable )( precedes the noun, triggers soft mutation of all nouns )
( ordinal number ) second Synonym: eilfed yrail l awr ―thesecond floor Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “ail ”, inGweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary , Gwerin R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “ail ”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies 
