adle

From Middle English adle, from Old English ādl (“disease, infirmity, sickness, pain, languishing sickness, consumption”), from Proto-West Germanic *aidlu, from Proto-Germanic *aidlō, *aidlaz (“burning, fever, disease”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- (“to burn, shine”). Compare Middle Low German ādel (“ulcer, wound, sore”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪdəl/

adle

1. (obsolete) Sickness; disease.

• ALDE, Adel, Dale, Deal, Dela, E.D. La., Lade, Leda, dale, deal, lade, lead

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adle

1. inflection of adeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

From the oblique forms of Old English ādl, from Proto-West Germanic *aidlu, from Proto-Germanic *aidlō.

• adl, alde, odle

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːdəl/, /ˈadəl/, /ˈɔːdəl/, /-lə/

adle

1. disease

• English: adle

• “ā̆dle, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-10.

adle

1. inflection of adel:
   1. weak singular
   2. strong/weak plural

From German adeln.

adle (imperative adl or adle, present tense adler, passive adles, simple past and past participle adla or adlet, present participle adlende)

1. to knight (someone), raise (someone) to the peerage, ennoble

• adel

• “adle” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “adle” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

adle (present tense adlar, past tense adla, past participle adla, passive infinitive adlast, present participle adlande, imperative adle/adl)

1. E-infinitive form of adla

From of alle with pre-occlusion; compare adde. From Old Norse allir m or late Old Norse alli n.

• IPA^(key): /²ad.lə/, [²ɐ̞d.lə], (Rogaland) [²a̝d.lə]

adle

1. (dialectal) plural of all
   • 1647, “LAnte oster Kraakelund”, in Den fyrste morgonblånen, Oslo: Novus, published 1990, page 42:

     Ere de no adle mætte

     Are you all full[?]

• “adle” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• adel

adle

1. Alternative form of addle

• “adle” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.