aile

See also: Aile, Áile, ailé, àile, aîle, and ailə

Alternative forms

aîle, aisle (obsolete)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɛl/, /ɛːl/ (even with [ɛː]-distinction this word may be short)
Audio (Paris): (file)
Rhymes: -ɛl
Homophones: ailes (general), elle, elles (short), L (short, optionally aspirated), hèle, hèlent, hèles (short, aspirated)

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French aisle, from Old French aile, from Latin āla (“wing [of animals]”).

Noun

aile f (plural ailes)

wing (of a bird or other flying animal; of poultry; of an aircraft; of a building; of an army; in football and rugby; in politics)
fender, wing (of an automobile)
(of the nose) side, wing, ala
sail (of a windmill)
blade (of a propeller)
(figuratively) wings

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb form of ailer.

Verb

aile

inflection of ailer:
1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
2. second-person singular imperative

Etymology 1

From Old Irish aile m (“fence, palisade”).

Pronunciation

(Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈɛlʲə/, /ˈɨ̞lʲə/^[1]

Noun

aile f (genitive singular aile, nominative plural ailte)

clamp (pile of agricultural produce such as root vegetables or silage stored under a layer of earth or an airtight sheet)

Declension

More information bare forms, case ...

Declension of aile (fourth declension)

bare forms
case	singular	plural
nominative	aile	ailte
vocative	a aile	a ailte
genitive	aile	ailte
dative	aile	ailte

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an aile	na hailte
genitive	na haile	na n-ailte
dative	leis an aile don aile	leis na hailte

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Etymology 2

Adjective

aile

Alternative form of eile (“other, another”)

Mutation

More information radical, eclipsis ...

Mutated forms of *aile*
radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aile	n-aile	haile	not applicable

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References

[1]
Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 36

Etymology

From Old Irish aingel (“angel”), from Late Latin angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ail/

Noun

aile m (genitive singular ailey)

fire

Alternative forms

oile, eile

Etymology

From Old Irish aile, from Proto-Celtic *alyos (“other, second”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈalʲə/

Adjective

aile

other, second
- c. 1000, anonymous author, edited by Rudolf Thurneysen, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó, Dublin: Stationery Office, published 1935, § 1, page 2, line 15:
  Mani·tucad immurgu ní din chéttadall ni·bered a n-aill.
  If, however, he did not take anything at (literally “from”) his first thrust, he did not bring the second.

Inflection

Neuter nominative/accusative singular: aill

Descendants

Irish: eile
Manx: elley
Scottish Gaelic: eile

Mutation

More information radical, lenition ...

Mutation of *aile*
radical	lenition	nasalization
aile	unchanged	n-aile

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Etymology

From Latin āla.

Noun

aile oblique singular, f (oblique plural ailes, nominative singular aile, nominative plural ailes)

wing (anatomical structure of flying animals)

Descendants

Middle French: aisle f, aesle, æsle
- French: aile f
- → Middle English: ele
  - English: aisle

FWOTD – 16 April 2022

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *alyos (“other, second”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈalʲe]

Adjective

aile

other, second, one (of two)
(pronominalized, with the definite article) another, the other, others
(pronominalized) something else, anything else
(nominalized) period of two days

Inflection

More information io/iā-stem, Singular ...

io/iā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	aile	aile	aill
Vocative	aili	aile
Accusative	aile	aili
Genitive	aili	aile	aili
Dative	ailiu	aili	ailiu
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	aili	aili
Vocative	aili ailiu*
Accusative	aili ailiu*
Genitive	aile
Dative	ailib
Notes	* when substantivized

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Quotations

c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 110c
Ba bés leusom do·bertis dá boc leu dochum tempuil, ⁊ no·léicthe indala n‑ái fon díthrub co pecad in popuil, ⁊ do·bertis maldachta foir, ⁊ n⟨o⟩·oircthe didiu and ó popul tar cenn a pecthae ind aile.
It was a custom with them that two he-goats were brought by them to the temple, and one of the two of them was let go to the wilderness with the sin of the people, and curses were put upon him, and thereupon the other was slain there by the people for their sins.

Derived terms

ailide
in céin n-aili (“at another time”)
nach aile

Related terms

alaile, araile

Descendants

Middle Irish: aile, oile, eile
- Irish: eile
- Manx: elley
- Scottish Gaelic: eile

Mutation

More information radical, lenition ...

Mutation of *aile*
radical	lenition	nasalization
aile (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-aile

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Etymology

From Middle French aisle.

Noun

aile (plural ailes)

aisle

References

“aile, n²”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish عائله ('aile), from Arabic عائِلَة (ʕāʔila).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɑː.i.ˈle/, /aːjˈle/
Hyphenation: a‧i‧le
Audio: (file)

Noun

aile (definite accusative aileyi, plural aileler)

family
Synonym: ocak
(taxonomy) family
Synonym: familya

Declension

More information Inflection, Nominative ...

Inflection

Nominative

aile

Definite accusative

aileyi

Singular

Plural

Nominative

Definite accusative

Dative

Locative

Ablative

Genitive

Possessive forms
Nominative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	ailem	ailelerim
2nd singular	ailen	ailelerin
3rd singular	ailesi	aileleri
1st plural	ailemiz	ailelerimiz
2nd plural	aileniz	aileleriniz
3rd plural	aileleri	aileleri
Definite accusative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	ailemi	ailelerimi
2nd singular	aileni	ailelerini
3rd singular	ailesini	ailelerini
1st plural	ailemizi	ailelerimizi
2nd plural	ailenizi	ailelerinizi
3rd plural	ailelerini	ailelerini
Dative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	aileme	ailelerime
2nd singular	ailene	ailelerine
3rd singular	ailesine	ailelerine
1st plural	ailemize	ailelerimize
2nd plural	ailenize	ailelerinize
3rd plural	ailelerine	ailelerine
Locative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	ailemde	ailelerimde
2nd singular	ailende	ailelerinde
3rd singular	ailesinde	ailelerinde
1st plural	ailemizde	ailelerimizde
2nd plural	ailenizde	ailelerinizde
3rd plural	ailelerinde	ailelerinde
Ablative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	ailemden	ailelerimden
2nd singular	ailenden	ailelerinden
3rd singular	ailesinden	ailelerinden
1st plural	ailemizden	ailelerimizden
2nd plural	ailenizden	ailelerinizden
3rd plural	ailelerinden	ailelerinden
Genitive
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	ailemin	ailelerimin
2nd singular	ailenin	ailelerinin
3rd singular	ailesinin	ailelerinin
1st plural	ailemizin	ailelerimizin
2nd plural	ailenizin	ailelerinizin
3rd plural	ailelerinin	ailelerinin

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Derived terms

aile adı
aile bahçesi
aile bütçesi
aile doktoru
aile dostu
aile fotoğrafı
aile gazinosu
aile hayatı
aile hekimi
aile hukuku
aile ismi
aile mahkemesi
aile matinesi
aile meclisi
aile planlaması
aile reisi
aile saadeti
ailece
ailecek
ailevi

Alternative forms

aiye

Etymology

From Old French aile, from Latin āla.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɛːl/

Noun

aile f

(anatomy) wing

[1] [1]
Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 36

[1]

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