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ale¹

  • /eɪl/ UK, US

Rhymes with -eɪl

Where it comes from

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Proto-Indo-European *h₂elut-der.

Proto-Germanic *alu

Proto-West Germanic *alu

Old English ealu

Middle English ale

English ale

From Middle English ale, from Old English ealu, ealo, from Proto-West Germanic *alu, from Proto-Germanic *alu (compare Dutch aal, Icelandic and Swedish öl (“beer”), Danish, Faroese, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk øl (“beer”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elut- (“beer”), or *h₂elu- (“bitter”). Compare Russian ол (ol), Lithuanian alùs, Armenian օղի (ōġi); compare also Latin alum (“comfrey”), alūta (“tawed leather”), Ancient Greek ἀλύδοιμος (alúdoimos, “bitter”).

noun ales · eale

  1. countable, uncountable A beer or beerlike drink produced by so-called warm fermentation and unpressurized.
  2. countable, dated, uncountable A beer or beerlike drink made without hops.
  3. UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable A rural festival where ale is drunk.

Ale²

Where it comes from

* As a Spanish surname, from Ale, probably a shortening of Alejandro.

* As an Italian surname, likely a variant of Aleo.

* As an English surname, from Middle English Ale, shortened from several names such as Alice, Allison, etc.

* Also as an English surname, variant of Hale.

* As a Dutch surname, from the personal name Aal, also shortened from names such as Alewijn, Albert.

* As a Nepali surname, from आले (āle). This surname is mostly found in Nepal.

Compare Al.

proper noun Ales

  1. A surname.
  2. diminutive Diminutive of Alejandra, from analogy with English Alison or AlexandraAlejandra

ALE³

noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism, uncountable Initialism of atomic layer etching.atomic layer etching

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