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aye

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Scrabble points
6
Words With Friends
5
Letters
3
Pronunciation
/eɪ/
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/eɪ/ · /aɪ/ · [æe̯]

Definition of aye

11 senses · 5 parts of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. (archaic, not-comparable)Ever, always.
    “[…]Do that good miſcheefe, which may make this Iſland / Thine owne for euer, and I thy Caliban, / For aye thy foot-licker.”
    “The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, / And southward aye we fled.”
    “Huge hills and mountains of casks on casks were piled upon her wharves, and side by side the world-wandering whale ships lay silent and safely moored at last; while from others came a sound of carpenters and coopers, with blended noises of fires and forges to melt the pitch, all betokening that new cruises were on the start; that one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever and for aye.”
    “Let the Amen sound from His people again; / Gladly for aye we adore Him.”
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adv

  1. (archaic, not-comparable)Ever, always.
    “[…]Do that good miſcheefe, which may make this Iſland / Thine owne for euer, and I thy Caliban, / For aye thy foot-licker.”
    “The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, / And southward aye we fled.”
    “Huge hills and mountains of casks on casks were piled upon her wharves, and side by side the world-wandering whale ships lay silent and safely moored at last; while from others came a sound of carpenters and coopers, with blended noises of fires and forges to melt the pitch, all betokening that new cruises were on the start; that one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever and for aye.”
    “Let the Amen sound from His people again; / Gladly for aye we adore Him.”

intj

  1. Yes; yea; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative answer to a question.
    “Tro[ylus]. Haue I not tarried? Pan[darus]. I the grinding; but you muſt tarry the boulting. Troy. Haue I not tarried? Paude.^([sic]) I the boulting; but you muſt tarry the leauening. Troy. Still haue I tarried. Pan. I, to the leauening, but heares yet in the word hereafter, the kneading, […]”
    “david: […] Will he surely give him his daughter? The daughter of his house in Gilgal? soldier: Aye, surely he will.”
  2. A word used to acknowledge a command from a superior, usually preceded by a verbatim repeat-back.
  3. (New-Zealand, alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of ay (question tag).
  4. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of ay: expressing anger, alarm, frustration, pain, etc.
    “Iſt’s der? Keine Antwort? — Er iſt’s! Reinhold? Reinhold’, der boͤſe Feind jagt dich parforce! Ey, ey, ey! Welch Skandal!”
    “jonathan: Oh, peace! Thou art all mischief, Michal, Thou shouldst be married to a Philistine, for his undoing. michal: Ayeee! This David has come back to trouble us! Why didst not thou slay the Philistine, Jonathan?”
    “"Aye, aye, aye," Federer said when he hit an uncharacteristically wayward shot when serving for the match, such were his comfort levels.”
  5. Used in aye aye.
  6. (Multicultural-London-English, alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of eh.

verb

  1. To respond with an "aye".
    “The men ayed their agreement.”

noun

  1. An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative.
    “to call for the ayes and nays”
    “The ayes have it.”

name

  1. A surname.
  2. (Singapore, abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Ayer Rajah Expressway.

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey- Proto-Indo-European *h₂óyu Proto-Germanic *aiwazder. Old Norse eyder. Middle English ay English aye From Middle English ay, ai, aȝȝ, from Old Norse ei, ey, from Proto-Germanic *aiwa,…

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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey- Proto-Indo-European *h₂óyu Proto-Germanic *aiwazder. Old Norse eyder. Middle English ay English aye From Middle English ay, ai, aȝȝ, from Old Norse ei, ey, from Proto-Germanic *aiwa, *aiwō (“ever, always”), from *aiwaz (“age; law”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“long time”). Doublet of aeviternity and aevum. See also Old English āwo, āwa, ā, ō, Middle Dutch ie, German je; also Old English ǣ(w) (“law”), West Frisian ieu (“century”), Dutch eeuw (“century”); also Irish aois (“age, period”), Breton oad (“age, period”), Latin ævum (“eternity”), Ancient Greek αἰών (aiṓn).

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