eale

eale (countable and uncountable, plural eales)

1. Obsolete form of ale.[1]
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:

     Hamlet: As infinite as man may undergo--
     Shall in the general censure take corruption
     From that particular fault: the dram of eale
     Doth all the noble substance of a doubt
     To his own scandal.

2. Alternative form of yale (mythical beast)

• alee

eale

1. allative singular of iga

• eocle

Wanderwort. Believed to ultimately derive from Hebrew יעל.

eale f

1. A mythical African beast, based perhaps on the rhinoceros; the yale.
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.73:

     Apud eōsdem et quae vocātur eale, magnitūdine equī fluviātīlis, caudā elephantī, colōre nigrā vel fulvā, māxillīs aprī, maiōra cubitālibus cornua habēns mobilia quae alterna in pugnā sē sistunt variēque īnfēsta aut oblīqua, utcumque ratiō mōnstrāvit.

     Among the same people there’s also the beast that is called yale, of the size of a hippopotamus, with the tail of an elephant, of black or yellow colour, with the jaws of a boar, having movable horns longer than a cubit which in fight are raised alternatively, either forwards or obliquely, as need be.

Not known; only attested in the nominative singular. Dictionaries give the following declension based on the analogy of other nouns ending in -e:

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

• “eale”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “eale” in volume V 2, column 2, line 17 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present

eale

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of hele (“health”)

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈe̯ale/

eale

1. inflection of eallit:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative
   3. imperative connegative

From Middle English ele, from Old English ǣl, from Proto-West Germanic *āl.

• IPA^(key): /iːɫ/

eale (plural eales)

1. eel

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 37