eale

== English == === Noun === eale (countable and uncountable, plural eales) Obsolete form of ale. Alternative form of yale (mythical beast) === References === === Anagrams === alee == Estonian == === Noun === eale allative singular of iga == Latin == === Alternative forms === eocle === Etymology === Wanderwort. Believed to ultimately derive from Hebrew יעל. === Noun === eale f 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 (feminine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ē). === References === “eale”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “eale” in volume V 2, column 2, line 17 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present == Middle English == === Noun === eale (Early Middle English) alternative form of hele (“health”) == Northern Sami == === Pronunciation === (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈe̯ale/ === Verb === eale inflection of eallit: present indicative connegative second-person singular imperative imperative connegative == Old English == === Noun === eale inflection of eal: accusative/genitive/dative singular nominative/accusative plural == Yola == === Etymology === From Middle English el, from Old English ǣl, from Proto-West Germanic *āl. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɛːl/ === Noun === eale (plural eales) 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