aile

• aîle, aisle (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /ɛl/, /ɛːl/ (even with [ɛː]-distinction this word may be short)

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• Rhymes: -ɛl
• Homophones: ailes (general), elle, elles (short), L (short, optionally aspirated), hèle, hèlent, hèles (short, aspirated)

Inherited from Middle French aisle, from Old French aile, from Latin āla (“wing [of animals]”).

aile f (plural ailes)

1. wing (of a bird or other flying animal; of poultry; of an aircraft; of a building; of an army; in football and rugby; in politics)
2. fender, wing (of an automobile)
3. (of the nose) side, wing, ala
4. sail (of a windmill)
5. blade (of a propeller)
6. (figuratively) wings

Verb form of ailer.

aile

1. inflection of ailer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “aile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

From Old Irish aile m (“fence, palisade”).

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈelʲə/, /ˈɨlʲə/^[1]

aile f (genitive singular aile, nominative plural ailte)

1. clamp (pile of agricultural produce such as root vegetables or silage stored under a layer of earth or an airtight sheet)

aile

1. alternative form of eile (“other, another”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “aile”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Old Irish aingel (“angel”), from Late Latin angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger”).

• IPA^(key): /ãil/

aile m (genitive singular ailey, plural aileyn)

1. fire

aile

1. alternative form of ayel

• oile, eile

From Old Irish aile, from Proto-Celtic *alyos (“other, second”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈalʲə/

aile

1. other, second
   • c. 1000, anonymous author, edited by Rudolf Thurneysen, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó, Dublin: Stationery Office, published 1935, § 1, page 2, line 15:

     Mani·tucad immurgu ní din chéttadall ni·bered a n-aill.

     If, however, he did not take anything at (literally “from”) his first thrust, he did not bring the second.

• Neuter nominative/accusative singular: aill

• Irish: eile
• Manx: elley
• Scottish Gaelic: eile

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 aile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Latin āla.

aile oblique singular, f (oblique plural ailes, nominative singular aile, nominative plural ailes)

1. wing (anatomical structure of flying animals)

• Middle French: aisle f, aesle, æsle
  • French: aile f
• → Middle English: ele, ell, eyle, hele, ilde, ile, ill, ille, yele, yle, eill (Northern), iill, yill (Early Scots)
  • English: aisle
  • Middle Scots: ile

From Proto-Celtic *alyos (“other, second”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.lʲe/

aile

1. other, second, one (of two)
2. (pronominalized, with the definite article) another, the other, others
3. (pronominalized) something else, anything else
4. (nominalized) period of two days

For quotations using this term, see Citations:aile.

• ailide
• in céin n-aili (“at another time”)
• nach aile

• alaile, araile

• Middle Irish: aile, oile, eile
  • Irish: eile
  • Manx: elley
  • Scottish Gaelic: eile

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 aile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Middle French aisle.

aile (plural ailes)

1. aisle

• “aile, n²”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

From Ottoman Turkish عائله ('aile), from Arabic عائِلَة (ʕāʔila).

• IPA^(key): /ɑː.i.ˈle/, /aːjˈle/
• Hyphenation: a‧i‧le

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aile (definite accusative aileyi, plural aileler)

1. family

   Synonyms: fasile, ocak

2. (taxonomy) family

   Synonym: familya

• aiye

From Old French aile, from Latin āla.

• IPA^(key): /ɛːl/

aile f

1. (anatomy) wing