ae

ae

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Avestan.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Avestan terms

Variant form of æ.

• IPA^(key): /iː/, /eɪ/, /ʌ/
• Rhymes: -iː, -eɪ, -ʌ

ae

1. Alternative form of æ.

• a.e.

• “ae”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “ae”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

• EA, Ea, ea, ea.

ae

1. mother

ae

1. water

• Darrell T. Tryon, New Hebrides languages: an internal classification (1976)
• ABVD

• IPA^(key): /æ/

ae (upper case Ae)

1. A letter of the Barai alphabet, written in the Latin script.

From English eye.

ae

1. (anatomy) eye

Probably derived from the interjection ah.

• IPA^(key): /aːə/, [ˈæːæ]
• Rhymes: -aːə
• Homophone: age

ae (past tense aede, past participle aet)

1. to stroke, pat, caress

• “ae” in Den Danske Ordbog

ae

1. water

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waiʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

ae

1. water (clear liquid H₂O)

• Bradley J. McDonnell, Possessive Structures in Ende: a Language of Eastern Indonesia

• IPA^(key): /eː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /əi̯/^[1]

From Middle Irish áe (“liver”), from Old Irish óa, from Proto-Celtic *awV-. Compare Welsh afu.

ae m (genitive singular ae, nominative plural aenna)

1. (anatomy) liver

• Alternative plural: aebha, aobha
• Alternative genitive plural: ae (in certain phrases)

• crua-ae (Achill, Ulster)

ae m (genitive singular ae)

1. alternative form of aoi (“metrical composition”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ae”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 áe ("liver")”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “ae”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “ae”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

• IPA^(key): /ɑe/

ae

1. tree

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988) (ai)
• Morris Johnson, Kela Organized Phonology Data (1994) (ae)

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ʔaar. Cognates include Zou ah and Mizo ár.

• IPA^(key): /ʔɛ˧/

ae

1. chicken

• K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin‎^[2], Payap University, page 44

ae

1. (intransitive) go up

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

ae

1. water (clear liquid H₂O)

• P. Sawardo, Struktur bahasa Lio (1987)
• Louise Baird, A Grammar of Kéo: An Austronesian Language of East Nusantara (2002) ('aé)

ae

1. tree

• Greg Pearson, René van den Berg, Lote Grammar Sketch (2008)

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [ɑɛ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /ɰæjɛj/
• Bender phonemes: {hayey}

ae

1. current
2. pool

ae

1. collect
2. gather, grouping

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

ae

1. emphatic particle

   apy ae

   right here

• IPA^(key): /aɨ̯/

ae … ae

1. either … or
   • Pwyll Pendeuic Dyuet:

     Sef kyfryw chware a wneynt, taraw a wnai pob un dyrnawt ar y got, ae a’e droet ae a throssawl;

     In this manner they played the game, each of them striking the bag, either with his foot or with a staff.

• Welsh: ai

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *a(a)e.

ae

1. used to draw attention; hey!
2. expression of surprise; oh!

• aege (used when talking to a capuchin monkey)

ae

1. a wasp

• 2010, Isaac Costa de Souza, A Phonological Description of “Pet Talk” in Arara (MA), SIL Brazil, page 42.

ae!

1. (Internet slang) alternative spelling of aê

• ave (Nuorese)

Inherited from Latin avem, accusative of avis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈae/

ae f (plural aes)

1. (Logudorese) bird (in general), especially eagles or other birds of prey

   Synonyms: achedda, puzone

According to Max Leopold Wagner, ae means 'bird' in a general, almost collective, sense, while a specific bird is usually called a puzone. The term also has a tendency to mean 'eagle' in central dialects, and by extension also 'vulture' and other birds of prey.

• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) “uccello”, in Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes
• Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “áve”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg

Scots numbers ^(edit)

	1
Cardinal: ane     Attributive: ae     Ordinal: first

From Northern Middle English a, apocopic form of oon, from Old English ān (“one”), from Proto-West Germanic *ain. See also Scots ane.

• a'e, ya, yae, yeh
• eäe (southern, dialect)
• ee (Shetland)

• (Shetland, northern East Central Scots) IPA^(key): /eː/^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): (southern East Central Scots, South-West Scots) /jeː/^[1][2]
• (Southern Scots) IPA^(key): /jɛː/,^[1] /jæː/^[2]

ae

1. one
   • 1786, Robert Burns, A Winter Night:

     Ae night the storm the steeples rocked

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1875, William Alexander, Sketches of Life Among My Ain Folk, page 51:

     "A twa-horse wark, maybe? or dee ye make it oot wi' ae beast an' an owse?"

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Used before nouns.

ae

1. one (of the two)
2. one, someone (indefinite)

ae (not comparable)

1. one, the same

ae (not comparable)

1. only
2. about, approximately

   Synonym: a

3. (poetic) Emphasises a superlative.

ae

1. (chiefly Central Scots) alternative form of o (“of”)

Possibly from earlier *kel, from Proto-Oceanic *keli, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *keli, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kali, from Proto-Austronesian *kalih. But this etymology remains dubious.

• IPA^(key): /ae/

ae

1. to dig, hollow out

• François, Alexandre. 2021. Teanu dictionary (Solomon Islands). Dictionaria 15. 1-1877. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.5653063. – entry ~ae.
• François, Alexandre. 2021. Online Teanu–English dictionary, with equivalents in Lovono and Tanema. Electronic files. Paris: CNRS. – entry ~ae.
• Lackey, W.J.. & Boerger, B.H. (2021) “Reexamining the Phonological History of Oceanic's Temotu subgroup”, in Oceanic Linguistics.

ae

1. father; short for finɔ ae
2. short for atufe ae
   1. stepfather; mother's new husband
   2. father's brother
   3. husband of one's mother's sister
   4. son of one's father's sister
   5. son-in-law of one's father's sister
   6. son of one's father's parallel cousin
   7. paternal grandson of one's paternal grandparent's sister
3. grandfather (on both sides); short for fizu ae
4. short for fizu atufe ae
   1. grandfather's brother
   2. maternal grandmother's brother
   3. son of one's grandfather's sister
   4. maternal grandson of one's grandfather's sister
   5. husband of one's father's sister
   6. male parallel cousin-in-law of one's father

• All the relations above can be simply stated as ae unless the speaker wishes to avoid ambiguity, much as English speakers will say cousin without specifying second cousin, etc.

• ina (“mother, various other meanings”)

• Scheffler, H. W. (1972) “Baniata Kin Classification: The Case for Extensions”, in Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, volume 28, number 4, University of Chicago Press, pages 350—381

ae

1. (slang, Internet, text messaging) initialism of anh em

ae

1. (slang, Internet, text messaging) initialism of anh em

Possibly cognate with Ternate hohe (“to laugh”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.e/

ae

1. (intransitive) to laugh

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[3], Pacific linguistics

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qaqay, from Proto-Austronesian *qaqay.

• IPA^(key): /ae/

ae

1. foot, leg

• Anceaux, Johannes C. (1987) Wolio Dictionary (Wolio-English-Indonesian) / Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio-Inggeris-Indonesia), Dordrecht: Foris

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ʔai˨˦/
• Tone numbers: ae¹
• Hyphenation: ae

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

ae (Sawndip forms 侅[1] or ⿰亻界[1] or 𠲖[1], 1957–1982 spelling əi)

1. used for adult men

From Proto-Tai *ʔajᴬ (“to cough”).^[2]

In Zuojiang Zhuang, cognate with ae (Chongzuo, Ningming, Longzhou, Daxin dialects).^[3]

In Northern Tai, cognate with Saek ไอ๋.

In Central Tai, cognate with Nong Zhuang ae,^[3] Tày ay.

In Southwestern Tai, cognate with Thai ไอ (ai), Northern Thai ᩋᩱ, Lao ໄອ (ʼai), Lü ᦺᦀ (˙ʼay), Shan ဢႆ (ʼǎi), Tai Nüa ᥟᥭ (ʼay), Aiton ဢႝ (ʼay), Ahom 𑜒𑜩 (ʼay).

ae (Sawndip forms 痎[1] or 𧙜[1] or 𠲖[1] or 哎[1], 1957–1982 spelling əi)

1. to cough