dale
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /deɪl/
- Rhymes: -eɪl
Etymology 1
From Middle English dale, from Old English dæl, from Proto-Germanic *dalą. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Doal, Dutch dal, German Low German Daal, German Tal, Swedish dal, Danish dal, Norwegian dal, Icelandic dalur.[1]
Noun
dale (plural dales)
- (chiefly Britain) A valley, many times in an otherwise hilly area.
- 1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
- 1868, Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right XIV:
- The country about Nuncombe Putney is perhaps as pretty as any in England. It is beyond the river Teign, between that and Dartmoor, and is so lovely in all its variations of rivers, rivulets, broken ground, hills and dales, old broken, battered, time-worn timber, green knolls, rich pastures, and heathy common, that the wonder is that English lovers of scenery know so little of it.
- 1908, Edmund Louis Gruber, “The Caissons Go Rolling Along”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- Over hill, over dale / As we hit the dusty trail, / And those caissons go rolling along.
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Etymology 2
Related to Low German daal or Dutch daal (“lowers, descends”) and French dalle (“trough; conduit”). Attested in English since the seventeenth century.[2]
References
- Dale in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “dale, n.3”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for dale in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Danish
Etymology 1
See dal.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /daːlə/, [ˈd̥æːlə]
Etymology 2
From Middle Low German dalen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /daːlə/, [ˈd̥æːlə]
Dutch
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Gothic
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English dæl, from Proto-Germanic *dala-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /daːl/, /dɛːl/, /dal/
Declension
Related terms
- dalke (probably)
References
- “dāle (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-12.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdale/, [ˈd̪ale]
Verb
dale