aile

• aîle, aisle (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /ɛl/, /ɛːl/ (even with [ɛː]-distinction this word may be short)

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• Rhymes: -ɛl
• Homophones: ailes (general), elle, elles (short), L (short, optionally aspirated), hèle, hèlent, hèles (short, aspirated)

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

aile f (plural ailes)

1. 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)
2. fender, wing (of an automobile)
3. (of the nose) side, wing, ala
4. sail (of a windmill)
5. blade (of a propeller)
6. (figuratively) wings

Verb form of ailer.

aile

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

• “aile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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

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

aile f (genitive singular aile, nominative plural ailte)

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

aile

1. Alternative form of eile (“other, another”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aile”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

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

• IPA^(key): /ail/

aile m (genitive singular ailey)

1. fire

• oile, eile

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈalʲe/

aile

1. other, second
   • c. 1000, Anonymous, published in (1935) Rudolf Thurneysen, editor, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó (in Middle Irish), Dublin: Staionery Office, § 1, l. 15, page 2: “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.”

• Neuter nominative/accusative singular: aill

• Irish: eile
• Manx: elley
• Scottish Gaelic: eile

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 aile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Proto-Celtic *alyos (“other, second”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈalʲe/

aile

1. other, second, one (of two)

• ailide
• nach aile

• alaile, araile

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

aile m or f or n

1. another, the other, others
   • 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.

2. period of two days
3. something else, anything else

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 aile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Middle French aisle.

aile (plural ailes)

1. aisle

• “aile, n²” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

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

• IPA^(key): /ɑː.i.ˈle/
• Hyphenation: a‧i‧le

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aile (definite accusative aileyi, plural aileler)

1. family
2. (taxonomy) family

• familya

• aiye

From Old French aile, from Latin āla.

• IPA^(key): /ɛːl/

aile f

1. (anatomy) wing