ay
Translingual
[edit]Symbol
[edit]ay
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key):/aɪ/
Audio(Southern England): (file) - Rhymes:-aɪ
- Homophones:aye,eye,I
Interjection
[edit]ay
- Ah!alas!
- (Mid-Ulster,others)Alternative spelling ofaye( "yes" )
- c.1602,William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”,inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[…](First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard,andEd[ward]Blount,published1623,→OCLC,[Act I, scene i]:
- Tro.Have I not tarried?
Pan.Ay,the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting.
Tro.Have I not tarried?
Pan.Ay,the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening.
Tro.Still have I tarried.
Pan.Ay,to the leavening; but[…]
- 1883,Howard Pyle, chapter V, inThe Merry Adventures of Robin Hood[…],New York, N.Y.:[…]Charles Scribner’s Sons[…],→OCLC:
- "Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow," quoth Robin, "thou seemest happy this merry morn."
Ay,that am I, "quoth the jolly Butcher," and why should I not be so?[…]"
- 1886October –1887January,H[enry] Rider Haggard,She: A History of Adventure,London:Longmans, Green, and Co.,published1887,→OCLC:
- "I swear also that I will honour and will cherish thee, Kallikrates, who hast been swept by the wave of time back into my arms,ay,till the very end, come it soon or late. "
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]ay(pluralays)
- Alternative spelling ofaye( "yes" )
- counting theaysand the noes in a vote
Etymology 2
[edit]FromMiddle Englishai,fromOld Norseei,fromProto-Germanic*aiwaz(“eternity, age”),fromProto-Indo-European*h₂eyu-(“vitality”);cognate withOld Englishā,Ancient Greekἀεί(aeí,“always”),andLatinaevum(“an age”).
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key):/ˈeɪ/
Audio(Southern England): (file) - Rhymes:-eɪ
- Homophones:A,eh
Adverb
[edit]ay(notcomparable)
- (archaic,poeticorNorthern England)Always;ever;continually;for anindefinitetime.
- 1670,John Barbour,The Acts and Life of the most victorious Conquerour Robert Bruce King of Scotland,as cited in 1860, Thomas Corser,Collectanea Anglo-poetica,page160
- O he that hathaylived free, [...]
- 1670,John Barbour,The Acts and Life of the most victorious Conquerour Robert Bruce King of Scotland,as cited in 1860, Thomas Corser,Collectanea Anglo-poetica,page160
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]Noun
[edit]ay(pluralays)
- The name of theLatin-scriptletterA/a.
- 2004,Will Rogers,The Stonking Steps,page170:
- It said, in a whispering, buzzing voice, "Gee-you-ess-ess-ay-dash-em-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-em-eye-en-gee-oh-dash-pee-eye-pee-dash-pee-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-pee-eye-en-gee-oh. "
- 2016CCEB,Communications Instructions Radiotelephone Procedures: ACP125 (G),p. 3-5
- ETA [is spoken] as "ee-tee-ay"instead of" I SPELL Echo Tango Alfa ".
Alternative forms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Etymology 4
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key):/eɪ/,(New Zealand)IPA(key):[æe̯]
Audio(Southern England): (file) - Rhymes:-eɪ
- Homophones:A,eh
Interjection
[edit]ay
- New Zealandspelling ofeh(question tag)
- 2013November 13, “Surprising changes in the way Aucklanders speak”, inStuff[1]:
- For example, New Zealanders tended to say "ay"at the end of sentences, but in the Asian community people used different tags to check whether people were still listening.
Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology 5
[edit]Origin uncertain; possibly related toehandhey;popularizedby a catch phrase in a 1970s sitcom.
Pronunciation
[edit]Interjection
[edit]ay
Further reading
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Ainu
[edit]Noun
[edit]ay(Kana spellingアイ)
References
[edit]- Batchelor, John (1926)An Ainu-English-Japanese Dictionary,third edition, Tokyo: Kyobunkan
- “ay (アイ)”,inAinu-English Dictionary[2],TranslationDirectory.com, 2023 May 1 (last accessed)
Albanian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]ay
Anguthimri
[edit]Noun
[edit]ay
- (Mpakwithi)vegetable
References
[edit]- Terry Crowley,The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri(1981), page 184
Azerbaijani
[edit]Cyrillic | ај | |
---|---|---|
Abjad | آی |
Etymology
[edit]InheritedfromProto-Turkic*āy(“moon, month”).Cognate withChuvashуйӑх(ujăh)SeeTurkishayfor more cognates.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ay(definite accusativeayı,pluralaylar)
- moon
- month
- date(day of the month)
- Bu günayınneçəsidir?―Whatdateis it today?
Declension
[edit]Declension ofay | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
singular | plural | |||||||
nominative | ay |
aylar | ||||||
definite accusative | ayı |
ayları | ||||||
dative | aya |
aylara | ||||||
locative | ayda |
aylarda | ||||||
ablative | aydan |
aylardan | ||||||
definite genitive | ayın |
ayların |
Chavacano
[edit]Adverb
[edit]ay
- Indicates thefuture tense.
Crimean Tatar
[edit]Etymology
[edit]InheritedfromProto-Turkic*āy(“moon, month”).CompareTurkishay(“moon, month”).
Noun
[edit]ay
Declension
[edit]References
[edit]- Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002)Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk[Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary][3],Simferopol: Dolya,→ISBN
- “ay”,inLuğatçıq(in Russian)
Czech
[edit]Interjection
[edit]ay
- obsolete typography ofaj
Gagauz
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]FromProto-Turkic*āy(“moon, month”).CompareTurkishay(“moon, month”).
Noun
[edit]ay(definite accusativeayı,pluralaylar)
Declension
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed fromAncient Greekἅγιος(hágios).
Noun
[edit]ay(definite accusativeayı,pluralaylar)
Declension
[edit]Highland Popoluca
[edit]Noun
[edit]ay
References
[edit]- Elson, Benjamin F., Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999)Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz(Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”;41)[4](in Spanish),Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C.,→ISBN,page10
Ladino
[edit]Etymology
[edit]FromOld Spanishha i(“it has there”).
Verb
[edit]ay(Latin spelling)
Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]BorrowedfromOld Norseei,ey,fromProto-Germanic*aiwa,*aiwō(“ever, always”).
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]ay
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “ai,adv.”,inMED Online,Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007.
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]ay
- Alternative form ofey(“egg”)
Middle French
[edit]Verb
[edit]ay
Rayón Zoque
[edit]Noun
[edit]ay
References
[edit]- Harrison, Roy, B. de Harrison, Margaret, López Juárez, Francisco, Ordoñes, Cosme (1984)Vocabulario zoque de Rayón(Serie de diccionarios y vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves;28)[5](in Spanish), México, D.F.:Instituto Lingüístico de Verano,page 4
Salar
[edit]Etymology
[edit]FromProto-Turkic*āy(“moon, month”).
Noun
[edit]ay(3rd person possessive[please provide],plural[please provide])
References
[edit]Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “ay”,inStroj salárskovo jazyká[Grammar of Salar], Moscow
Scots
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]InheritedfromMiddle Englishey.
Alternative forms
[edit]Interjection
[edit]ay
- An exclamation of surprise or wonder.
Etymology 2
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Interjection
[edit]ay
- yes;yea;a word expressingassent,or anaffirmativeanswer to a question
Etymology 3
[edit]Adverb
[edit]ay
- Alternative form ofaye
References
[edit]- “ay,adv.”,inThe Dictionary of the Scots Language,Edinburgh:Scottish Language Dictionaries,2004–present,→OCLC,retrieved24 May 2024,reproduced fromWilliam A[lexander]Craigie,A[dam]J[ack]Aitken[et al.],editors,A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue:[…],Oxford, Oxfordshire:Oxford University Press,1931–2002,→OCLC.
- “ay,interj.”,inThe Dictionary of the Scots Language,Edinburgh:Scottish Language Dictionaries,2004–present,→OCLC,retrieved24 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.
- “ay,interj.”,inThe Dictionary of the Scots Language,Edinburgh:Scottish Language Dictionaries,2004–present,→OCLC,retrieved24 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.
- “aye,adv.”,inThe Dictionary of the Scots Language,Edinburgh:Scottish Language Dictionaries,2004–present,→OCLC,retrieved24 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.
Somali
[edit]Noun
[edit]ay?
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Onomatopoeic.
Interjection
[edit]¡ay!
- ah!,alas!
- woe!
- expressespain,sorrow,orsurprise
- 1877,Benito Pérez Galdós,Gloria:
- ¡Ayde ti si no te rebelas!
- Woeis you if you do not rebel!
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]ay
Further reading
[edit]- “ay”,inDiccionario de la lengua española,Vigésima tercera edición,Real Academia Española,2014
Sranan Tongo
[edit]Noun
[edit]ay
- Alternative spelling ofai.
Tagalog
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]CompareHanunooay,Cebuanokay,Remontado Agtaay,andIbanagay.Similar function toIlocanoketandPangasinanet.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog)IPA(key):/ʔaj/[ʔaɪ̯],(colloquial)/ʔe/[ʔɛ]
- Rhymes:-aj
- Syllabification:ay
Particle
[edit]ay(Baybayin spellingᜀᜌ᜔)
- Separates the subject and the predicate. Indicative of a sentence inversion, i.e. from predicate-first form to subject-first form.
- AkoayPilipino. (Pilipino ako.)
- I am Filipino.
- Ika'yisang sirena. (Sirena ka.)
- You're a mermaid.
- then;so
- Kung gayonaysumunod sa akin
- If that is sothenfollow me
- (dialectal)Particle used in start or end of sentences to express warning or catch attention. See also:a,o,oy,andaya/ayaa.
- Parini kaay/Ay,parini ka.―Come here.
Usage notes
[edit]- (inversion marker):This word is often confused (by speakers of English or similar languages) to meantobedue to its similarity in location on sentences in subject-first form.
- This is usually elided to'yfollowing a word ending in a vowel in speeches, casual, or poetic writing.
Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]FromProto-Austronesian*aiand/orSpanishay.Related toEnglishay.CompareHokkienAi(ai).
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog)IPA(key):/ˈʔaj/[ˈʔaɪ̯]
- Rhymes:-aj
- Syllabification:ay
Interjection
[edit]ay(Baybayin spellingᜀᜌ᜔)
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]BorrowedfromEnglishi,the English name of the letterI/i.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog)IPA(key):/ʔaj/[ʔaɪ̯]
- Rhymes:-aj
- Syllabification:ay
Noun
[edit]ay(Baybayin spellingᜀᜌ᜔)
- the name of theLatin-scriptletterI/i,in theFilipino alphabet
- Synonym:(in the Abecedario and Abakada alphabet)i
See also
[edit]- (Latin-script letter names)titik;ey,bi,si,di,i,ef,dyi,eyts,ay,dyey,key,el,em,en,enye,en dyi,o,pi,kyu,ar,es,ti,yu,vi,dobolyu,eks,way,zi
Further reading
[edit]- “ay”,inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph,Manila,2018
Anagrams
[edit]Tày
[edit]Etymology
[edit]FromProto-Tai*ʔajᴬ(“tocough”).Cognate withNorthern Thaiᩋᩱ,Laoໄອ(ʼai),Lüᦺᦀ(˙ʼay),Shanဢႆ(ʼǎi),Tai Nüaᥟᥭ(ʼay),Aitonဢႝ(ʼay),Ahom𑜒𑜩(ʼay),Zhuangae,Saekไอ๋,Thaiไอ(ai).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Thạch An–Tràng Định)IPA(key):[ʔaj˧˧]
- (Trùng Khánh)IPA(key):[ʔaj˦˥]
Verb
[edit]ay
- tocough
- daay―coughmedicine
- ayoóc lượt―tocough upblood
- ayoóc ngạp―tocough upsputum
- aykhảu bẳng―tocoughinto a tube (in fear of it being too noisy)
- aymí oóc ngạp―to have a drycough(literally, “tocoughwithout sputum”)
- aybấu oóc pác―tocoughwithout a sound
- tầư lồm đảng, me̱nay
- They caught the cold wind so theycoughed.
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Lương Bèn (2011)Từ điển Tày-Việt[Tay-Vietnamese dictionary][6][7](in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
- Léopold Michel Cadière (1910)Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français[Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary][8](in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient
Turkish
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]InheritedfromOttoman Turkishآی(ay,“moon, month, crescent, a beautiful face”),fromProto-Turkic*āy(“moon, month”).[1]
Cognate withOld Turkic𐰖(y¹/ay/,“moon, month”),Karakhanidااىْ(āy,“moon, month”),Old Uyghur[script needed](ay,“moon, month”),Azerbaijaniay(“moon”),Bashkirай(ay,“moon”),Chuvashуйӑх(ujăh,“moon”),Kazakhай(ai,“moon”),Khakasай(ay,“moon”),Kyrgyzай(ay,“moon”),Southern Altaiай(ay,“moon”),Tatarай(ay,“moon”),Turkmenāý(“moon”),Tuvanай(ay,“moon”),Uyghurئاي(ay,“moon”),Uzbekoy(“moon”),Yakutый(ıy,“moon”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ay(definite accusativeayı,pluralaylar)
Declension
[edit]Inflection | ||
---|---|---|
Nominative | ay | |
Definite accusative | ayı | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | ay | aylar |
Definite accusative | ayı | ayları |
Dative | aya | aylara |
Locative | ayda | aylarda |
Ablative | aydan | aylardan |
Genitive | ayın | ayların |
Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]FromOttoman Turkishآی(ay!),akin toKarakhanid[script needed](ay!,“oh!”),Old Uyghur[script needed](ay!,“oh!”).
Interjection
[edit]ay
- exclamation of surprise, shock or fear:oh!
- Aykim gelmiş!―Oh(look) who is (apparently) here!
- exclamation of pain:ouch!
- Ay,başım!―Ouch,my head (hurt)!
Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “ay”,inTurkish dictionaries,Türk Dil Kurumu
References
[edit]- ^Starostin, Sergei,Dybo, Anna,Mudrak, Oleg(2003) “*āń(k)”,inEtymological dictionary of the Altaic languages(Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Wolof
[edit]Article
[edit]ay
- some(plural indefinite article)
Usage notes
[edit]Precedes the noun.
Zaghawa
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]ay
- I(first person pronoun)
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]ay
References
[edit]- Beria-English English-Beria Dictionary[provisional] ADESK, Iriba, Kobe Department, Chad
- Translingual lemmas
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- ISO 639-1
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- az:Astronomy
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