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
Theawn ofbarley or other types ofcorn . 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 ” ) , fromProto-Celtic *ɸales- Proto-Indo-European *pelis- ,*pels- ( “ stone ” ) .[ 1]
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.
Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977 ) “ail ”, inFoclóir Gaeilge–Béarla , Dublin: An Gúm,→ISBN Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019 ), “1 ail ”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927 ) “ail ”, inFoclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla Finck, F. N. (1899 )Die araner mundart The Aran Dialect 22 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 ) unchanged n-ail
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
·ail
third-person singular present indicative conjunct ofailid Mutation ofail radical lenition nasalization ·ail ( pronounced with/h/ inh -prothesis environments ) unchanged ·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 ailt 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.
