Abbreviation of English Aimele.

ail

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Aimele.

Inherited from Middle English eilen, from Old English eġlan, eġlian (“to trouble, afflict”), from Proto-West Germanic *aglijan, from Proto-Germanic *aglijaną (“to trouble, vex”), cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌲𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (agljan, “to distress”).

ail (third-person singular simple present ails, present participle ailing, simple past and past participle ailed)

  1. (transitive) To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions.)

    Have some chicken soup. It's good for what ails you.

    • 2011, “Connubial bliss in America”, in The Economist:

      Not content with having in 1996 put a Defence of Marriage Act (DOMA) on the statue book, Congress has now begun to hold hearings on a Respect for Marriage Act. Defended, respected: what could possibly ail marriage in America?

  2. (intransitive) To be ill; to suffer; to be troubled.

ail (plural ails)

  1. (obsolete) An ailment; trouble; illness.

An ailment; trouble; illness

Inherited from Middle English eyle, eile, from Old English eġle (“hideous, loathsome, hateful, horrid, troublesome, grievous, painful”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌲𐌻𐌿𐍃 (aglus, “hard, difficult”).

ail (comparative ailer or more ail, superlative ailest or most ail)

  1. (obsolete) Painful; troublesome.

Inherited from Middle English eile, eyle, eiȝle, from Old English eġl (“an ail; awn; beard of barley; mote”), from Proto-Germanic *agilō (“awn”), related to *ahaz (“ear (of grain)”).[1] Cognate with German Achel, Egel, Ägel.

ail (plural ails)

  1. (West Country) The awn of barley or other types of corn.

Antigua and Barbuda Creole English

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ail

  1. isle
  2. oil

ail

  1. cough
  • 吴启禄 (Qilu Wu), 王伟 (Wei Wang), 曹广衢 (Guangqu Cao), 吴定川 (Dingchuan Wu), editors (2002), 布依汉词典 [Bouyei–Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese), Beijing: Publishing House of Minority Nationalities, →ISBN, →OCLC

From Latin allium.

ail

  1. (Vegliot) garlic
  • Ive, A. (1886), “L'antico dialetto di Veglia [The old dialect of Veglia]”, in G. I. Ascoli, editor, Archivio glottologico italiano [Italian linguistic archive], volume 9, Rome: E. Loescher, pages 115–187

Inherited from Old French, from Latin allium.

ail m (plural ails or aulx)

  1. garlic
  • Haitian Creole: lay (from l'ail)
  • Mauritian Creole: lay (from l'ail)
  • Moore: lay (from l'ail)

From Old Irish ail (“boulder, rock”),[1] from Proto-Celtic *ɸales-, from Proto-Indo-European *pelis-, *pels- (“stone”).[2]

ail f (genitive singular aileach, nominative plural aileacha or ailche)

  1. stone, rock

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*fales-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 120
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 22
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “ail”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “ail”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla [Irish and English Dictionary], 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 15; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN

ail

  1. alternative form of ale (“beer”)

ail

  1. alternative form of hayle (“hail”)

From Old French, from Latin allium.

ail m (uncountable)

  1. (Jersey) garlic

Possibly from Proto-Celtic *ɸalos, from Proto-Indo-European *pels-, *pelis- (“rock, cliff”), see also German 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)

  1. rock
  2. foundation

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization
Mutation of ail
radical lenition nasalization
ail
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)		 ail n-ail

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

·ail

  1. third-person singular present indicative conjunct of ailid
Mutation of ·ail
radical lenition nasalization
·ail
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)		 ·ail ·n-ail

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

From Middle English eilen, from Old English eġlan, eġlian (“to trouble, afflict”), from Proto-West Germanic *aglijan.

ail (third-person singular simple present ails, present participle ailin, simple past and past participle ailt)

  1. to trouble, afflict (of body or mind)
  2. to hinder, prevent
  3. to be ill

From Middle Welsh eil, from Proto-Brythonic *ėl, from Proto-Celtic *alyos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos (“other”).

ail (feminine singular ail, plural ail, not comparable) (precedes the noun, triggers soft mutation of all nouns)

  1. (ordinal number) second
    Synonym: eilfed
    yr ail lawr ― the second floor

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

  • D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “ail”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “ail”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies