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ae

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

Variant form of æ.

ae

  1. Alternative form of æ.

ae

  1. mother

ae

  1. water
  • Darrell T. Tryon, New Hebrides languages: an internal classification (1976)
  • ABVD

ae (upper case Ae)

  1. A letter of the Barai alphabet, written in the Latin script.

From English eye.

ae

  1. (anatomy) eye

Probably derived from the interjection ah.

ae (past tense aede, past participle aet)

  1. to stroke, pat, caress

ae

  1. water
 
wai

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

ae

  1. water (clear liquid H₂O)
  • Bradley J. McDonnell, Possessive Structures in Ende: a Language of Eastern Indonesia

From Middle Irish áe (liver), from Old Irish óa, from Proto-Celtic *awV-. Compare Welsh afu.

ae m (genitive singular ae, nominative plural aenna)

  1. (anatomy) liver
  • Alternative plural: aebha, aobha
  • Alternative genitive plural: ae (in certain phrases)

ae m (genitive singular ae)

  1. Alternative form of aoi (metrical composition)
Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ae n-ae hae t-ae
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 64

ae

  1. tree
  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988) (ai)
  • Morris Johnson, Kela Organized Phonology Data (1994) (ae)
 
Ae.

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ʔaar. Cognates include Zou ah and Mizo ár.

ae

  1. chicken
  • K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin[1], Payap University, page 44

ae

  1. (intransitive) go up
 
ae

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

ae

  1. water (clear liquid H₂O)
  • P. Sawardo, Struktur bahasa Lio (1987)
  • Louise Baird, A Grammar of Kéo: An Austronesian Language of East Nusantara (2002) ('aé)

ae

  1. tree

ae

  1. current
  2. pool

ae

  1. collect
  2. gather, grouping

ae

  1. emphatic particle

ae … ae

  1. eitheror
    • Pwyll Pendeuic Dyuet:
      Sef kyfryw chware a wneynt, taraw a wnai pob un dyrnawt ar y got, ae a’e droet ae a throssawl;
      In this manner they played the game, each of them striking the bag, either with his foot or with a staff.

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *a(a)e.

ae

  1. used to draw attention; hey!
  2. expression of surprise; oh!
  • aege (used when talking to a capuchin monkey)

ae

  1. a wasp
  • 2010, Isaac Costa de Souza, A Phonological Description of “Pet Talk” in Arara (MA), SIL Brazil, page 42.

From .

ae

  1. (Internet slang, Brazil) oh yeah (expression of joy or approvement)

Inherited from Latin avem, accusative of avis.

ae f (plural aes)

  1. (Logudorese) bird (in general), especially eagles or other birds of prey
    Synonyms: achedda, puzone

According to Max Leopold Wagner, ae means 'bird' in a general, almost collective, sense, while a specific bird is usually called a puzone. The term also has a tendency to mean 'eagle' in central dialects, and by extension also 'vulture' and other birds of prey.

  • Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) “uccello”, in Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes
  • Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “áve”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg
Scots numbers (edit)
1
    Cardinal: ane
    Attributive: ae
    Ordinal: first

From Northern Middle English a, apocopic form of oon, from Old English ān (one), from Proto-West Germanic *ain. See also Scots ane.

ae

  1. one
    • 1875, William Alexander, Sketches of Life Among My Ain Folk, page 51:

Used before nouns.

ae

  1. one (of the two)
  2. one, someone (indefinite)

ae (not comparable)

  1. one, the same

ae (not comparable)

  1. only
  2. about, approximately
    Synonym: a
  3. (poetic) Emphasises a superlative.
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Concise Scots Dictionary, 1985, Aberdeen University Press editor-in-chief Mairi Robinson, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 ae, adj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 21 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.

Possibly from earlier *kel, from Proto-Oceanic *keli, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *keli, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kali, from Proto-Austronesian *kalih. But this etymology remains dubious.

ae

  1. to dig, hollow out

ae

  1. father; Short for finɔ ae.
  2. Short for atufe ae.
    1. stepfather; mother's new husband
    2. father's brother
    3. husband of one's mother's sister
    4. son of one's father's sister
    5. son-in-law of one's father's sister
    6. son of one's father's parallel cousin
    7. paternal grandson of one's paternal grandparent's sister
  3. grandfather (on both sides); Short for fizu ae.
  4. Short for fizu atufe ae.
    1. grandfather's brother
    2. maternal grandmother's brother
    3. son of one's grandfather's sister
    4. maternal grandson of one's grandfather's sister
    5. husband of one's father's sister
    6. male parallel cousin-in-law of one's father
  • All the relations above can be simply stated as ae unless the speaker wishes to avoid ambiguity, much as English speakers will say cousin without specifying second cousin, etc.
  • ina (mother, various other meanings)
  • Scheffler, H. W. (1972) “Baniata Kin Classification: The Case for Extensions”, in Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, volume 28, number 4, University of Chicago Press, pages 350—381

Possibly cognate with Ternate hohe (to laugh).

ae

  1. (intransitive) to laugh
Conjugation of ae (action verb)
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person taae maae aae
2nd person naae faae
3rd person inanimate iae daae
animate
imperative naae, ae faae, ae
  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[2], Pacific linguistics

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qaqay, from Proto-Austronesian *qaqay.

ae

  1. foot, leg
  • Anceaux, Johannes C. (1987) Wolio Dictionary (Wolio-English-Indonesian) / Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio-Inggeris-Indonesia), Dordrecht: Foris

ae (Sawndip forms or ⿰亻界 or 𠲖, 1957–1982 spelling əi)

  1. used for adult men

From Proto-Tai *ʔajᴬ (to cough). Cognate with Thai ไอ (ai), Northern Thai ᩋᩱ, Lao ໄອ (ʼai), ᦺᦀ (˙ʼay), Shan ဢႆ (ʼǎi), Tai Nüa ᥟᥭ (ʼay), Aiton ဢႝ (ʼay), Ahom 𑜒𑜩 (ʼay), Saek ไอ๋.

ae (Sawndip forms or 𧙜 or 𠲖 or , 1957–1982 spelling əi)

  1. to cough