eale

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English

Noun

eale (countable and uncountable, plural eales)

  1. Obsolete form of ale.
  2. Alternative form of yale (mythical beast)

References

  1. ^ * “eale”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

Estonian

Noun

eale

  1. allative singular of iga

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Wanderwort. Believed to ultimately derive from Hebrew יעל.

Noun

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

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).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ealē ealae
Genitive ealēs ealārum
Dative ealae ealīs
Accusative ealēn ealās
Ablative ealē ealīs
Vocative ealē ealae

References

Middle English

Noun

eale

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

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈe̯ale/

Verb

eale

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

Yola

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

eale (plural eales)

  1. eel

References

  • 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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