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eale

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English

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Noun

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eale (countable and uncountable, plural eales)

  1. Obsolete form of ale.[1]
    • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
      Hamlet: As infinite as man may undergo--
      Shall in the general censure take corruption
      From that particular fault: the dram of eale
      Doth all the noble substance of a doubt
      To his own scandal.
  2. Alternative form of yale (mythical beast)

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Anagrams

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Estonian

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Noun

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eale

  1. allative singular of iga

Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Wanderwort. Believed to ultimately derive from Hebrew יעל.

Noun

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eale f

  1. A mythical African beast, based perhaps on the rhinoceros; the yale.
    • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.73:
      Apud eōsdem et quae vocātur eale, magnitūdine equī fluviātīlis, caudā elephantī, colōre nigrā vel fulvā, māxillīs aprī, maiōra cubitālibus cornua habēns mobilia quae alterna in pugnā sē sistunt variēque īnfēsta aut oblīqua, utcumque ratiō mōnstrāvit.
      Among the same people there’s also the beast that is called yale, of the size of a hippopotamus, with the tail of an elephant, of black or yellow colour, with the jaws of a boar, having movable horns longer than a cubit which in fight are raised alternatively, either forwards or obliquely, as need be.

Declension

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Not known; only attested in the nominative singular. Dictionaries give the following declension based on the analogy of other nouns ending in -e:

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

singular plural
nominative ealē ealae
genitive ealēs ealārum
dative ealae ealīs
accusative ealēn ealās
ablative ealē ealīs
vocative ealē ealae

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Middle English

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Noun

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eale

  1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of hele (health)

Northern Sami

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Pronunciation

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  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈe̯ale/

Verb

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eale

  1. inflection of eallit:
    1. present indicative connegative
    2. second-person singular imperative
    3. imperative connegative

Yola

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Etymology

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From Middle English ele, from Old English ǣl, from Proto-West Germanic *āl.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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eale (plural eales)

  1. eel

References

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 37
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