ale

From Middle English, from Old English ealu, ealo, from Proto-Germanic *alu (compare Dutch aal, Swedish öl), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elut- (“beer”), or *h₂elu- (“bitter”). Compare Russian ол (ol), Lithuanian alùs, Armenian օղի (ōłi); compare also Latin alum (“comfrey”), alūta (“tawed leather”), Ancient Greek ἀλύδοιμος (alúdoimos, “bitter”).

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /eɪl/

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• Rhymes: -eɪl

ale (countable and uncountable, plural ales)

1. (dated) A beer made without hops.
2. A beer produced by so-called warm fermentation and not pressurized.
3. A festival in English country places, so called from the liquor drunk.

• (liquor): beer (loosely), yill

• E-la, ELA, Ela, LAE, LEA, Lea, ael, lea

ale

1. grain

• IPA^(key): /alɛ/

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• Rhymes: -alɛ

ale

1. but

• avšak

• jenže

• ale in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• ale in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from English ale.

• IPA^(key): /eːl/

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• Hyphenation: ale
• Rhymes: -eːl

ale m or n (uncountable)

1. ale

Cognate to Finnish halme and Livvi halmeh. From either Proto-Germanic *halmaz or a Baltic language, compare Lithuanian salms and Latvian želmuo.

ale (genitive ale, partitive alet)

1. slash-and-burn (the technique)
2. the forest cut down to create new land in slash-and-burn
3. the land created through slash-and-burn

< alennusmyynti (“sale”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑle/, [ˈɑle̞]
• Hyphenation: a‧le
• Rhymes: -ɑle

ale

1. (colloquial) sale (selling of goods at bargain prices)

• alehalli
• alehinta

From English ale.

• IPA^(key): /ˈei̯l/, [ˈe̞i̯l]
• Hyphenation: ale

ale

1. ale (type of beer)

In speech, type 5 (risti) is normally used, giving for instance nominative singular eil, genitive eilin, partitive eiliä, nominative plural eilit and genitive plural eilien.

• Lea

From English ale.

• IPA^(key): /ɛl/

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ale f (plural ales)

1. ale
   • 1884, Joris-Karl Huysmans, À rebours, XI:

     il mangea un rosbif aux pommes et s'enfourna deux pintes d’ale, excité par ce petit goût de vacherie musquée que dégage cette fine et pâle bière.

     He ate roast beef with apples and put away two pints of ale, excited by the little taste of musky trickery given off by this fine, pale beer.

• “ale” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Latin āla.

ale f (plural alis)

1. wing

From French aller (“go”).

ale

1. go

• al

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.le/
• Hyphenation: à‧le

ale f

1. (poetic) plural of ala; wings.

• ali

ale

1. second-person singular present active imperative of alō

• IPA^(key): /ˈalɛ/, [ˈalə]

ale

1. but

ale

1. second-person singular imperative of ij

From French aller.

ale (medial form al)

1. To go

from Old Dutch *alo, from Proto-Germanic *alu, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elut-.

āle n

1. ale

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: aal
• Limburgish: aal

• “ale”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

From Old English ealu, from Proto-Germanic *alu, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elut-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːl(ə)/

ale (plural ales)

1. ale (beverage)

• bridale

• English: ale
• Scots: yill

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈale/

ale

1. second-person singular imperative of ii

From Proto-Slavic *alje, from Proto-Indo-European *ályos.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.lɛ/

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• Homophones: Ale, Alę

ale

1. but

   Grałem dobrze, ale przegrałem.

   I played well, but I lost.

ale

1. (colloquial) used at the beginning of sentence for emphasis

   Ale masz piękną sukienkę!

   You have such a beautiful dress!

   Ale ta zupa jest dobra!

   This soup is so good!

2. used at the beginning of sentence similar to English "hey, not so fast", especially when used multiple times

   Ale, ale! Jeszcze z tobą nie skończyłem!

   Hey, not so fast! I'm not quite done with you yet!

• ale in Polish dictionaries at PWN

ale

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of alar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of alar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of alar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of alar

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.le/

ale

1. of (feminine/neuter plural possessive article)

   sunt ale mele aici? ― are mine here?

• al (masculine/neuter singular)
• a (feminine singular)
• ai (masculine plural)

From Proto-Slavic *ali, *ale.

• IPA^(key): /âle/
• Hyphenation: a‧le

ȁle (Cyrillic spelling а̏ле)

1. (Kajkavian) but
2. (Kajkavian) however

• IPA^(key): /ˈeil/, [ˈei̯l]

ale f (plural ales)

1. ale (intoxicating liquor)

ale

1. stepmother
2. aunt

• The Tagalog Pinoy Dictionary

ale

1. wing (of a bird etc)

ale

1. but