ake
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English aken, from Old English acan (“to ache”), from Proto-Germanic *akaną (“to ache”). More at ache.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eɪk/
Verb
ake (third-person singular simple present akes, present participle aking, simple past aked or oke, past participle aked or aken)
Noun
ake (plural akes)
- Archaic spelling of ache.
- 2015, LT Wolf, The World King (fiction), →ISBN:
- The ake of months of a growing firenlust became a rising queem til at last there was the burst of loosing that almost made his knees buckle.
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Etymology 2
Borrowed from Maori [Term?].
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑːˈkeɪ/
Adverb
ake (not comparable)
- (New Zealand) forever
- 1882, B. Francis, Isles of the Pacific: Or, Sketches from the South Seas, page 78:
- The answer given was : — " Friends, this is the reply of the Maori : we shall fight on ake, ake, ake, for ever, for ever, for ever."
- 1907, Wilhelm Dittmer, Te Tohunga: The Ancient Legends and Traditions of the Maoris:
- That was the time when the great wish grew in the heart of Maui, the wish to conquer his powerful enemy Hine-nui-te-po, that Night might die and man may live for ever: ake, ake, ake!—yes, it was his great wish.
- 1938, Edith J. Lyttleton & G. B. Lancaster, Promenade, page 383:
- "Ake, ake, ake," said Von Tempsky, weary over the camp-fire. "Has there been anything like it since the days of the old Greeks? What madness makes you kill such men when you may want them to fight for you some day?"
- 1997, Queenie Rikihana, Paki Waitara: Myths & Legends of the Māori, →ISBN, page 33:
- One day Maui visited his parents to tell them of his latest plan — he wished to conquer his powerful enemy Hine-nui-te-po so that the Night might die and man would live forever: ake, ake, ake!
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Galela
References
- Donald A. Burquest, Wyn D. Laidig, Descriptive studies in languages of Maluku, volume 2 (1995), page 6:
- Tabaru Galela
- [ˈakere] 'water' [ˈake] 'water'
- Robinson Ipol, Yosafat Etha, Deidre Shelden, Galela conversations (1989): ake
Gothic
Hawaiian
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian *qate, from Proto-Oceanic *qate, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Austronesian *qaCay.
Derived terms
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English ac.
Conjunction
ake
- Alternative form of ac
- approx. 1225, Hali Meidenhad (Holy Maidenhood)
- Not of low on earth, ake of the high in heaven.
- approx. 1225, Homilies in Lambeth
- Those men.. have the name of Christians, ake though they are Christ's unwins (enemies).
- approx. 1300, The Fox and the Wolf
- He was still, ne spake no-more, ake he worth athirst well sore.
- circa 1350, Midland Prose Psalter
- Blessed be the man that.. ne set nowt in false judgement. Ake his will was in the will of our Lord.
- circa 1390, Walter Hilton, On the Mixed Life
- This thought is good.. ake if a man may not lightly have salvation ne devotion in it, I hold it not speedful.
- approx. 1450, South English Legendary: Temporale
- It ... rotted fast; ake that flesh and that blood rotteth never-more.
- approx. 1225, Hali Meidenhad (Holy Maidenhood)
References
Etymology 2
From Old English eċe.
Ratahan
References
- J. N. Sneddon, The Languages of Minahasa, North Celebes (1970)
- J. N. Sneddon, Proto-Sangiric & the Sangiric Languages (1984), page 61
Swahili
Adjective
-ake (declinable)
Inflection
Ternate
References
- Yuiti Wada, Correspondance of Consonants in North Halmahera Languages (1980)
Tidore
References
- Possessive clauses in East Nusantara, the case of Tidore, in The Expression of Possession (2009, →ISBN
- Donald A. Burquest, Wyn D. Laidig, Descriptive studies in languages of Maluku, volume 2 (1995), page 52
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