ay

ay

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Aymara.

• IPA^(key): /aɪ/

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• Rhymes: -aɪ
• Homophones: aye, eye, I

ay

1. Ah! alas!
2. Alternative spelling of aye ("yes")
   • 1883, Howard Pyle, chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], OCLC 22773434:

     "Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow," quoth Robin, "thou seemest happy this merry morn."

     "Ay, that am I," quoth the jolly Butcher, "and why should I not be so? Am I not hale in wind and limb? Have I not the bonniest lass in all Nottinghamshire? And lastly, am I not to be married to her on Thursday next in sweet Locksley Town?"

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, OCLC 1167497017:

     "I swear also that I will honour and will cherish thee, Kallikrates, who hast been swept by the wave of time back into my arms, ay, till the very end, come it soon or late."

ay (plural ays)

1. Alternative spelling of aye ("yes")

   counting the ays and the noes in a vote

From Middle English ai, from Old Norse ei, from Proto-Germanic *aiwaz (“eternity, age”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vitality”); cognate with Old English ā, Ancient Greek ἀεί (aeí, “always”), and Latin aevum (“an age”).

• aye

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪ
• Homophones: A, eh

ay (not comparable)

1. (archaic, poetic or Northern England) Always; ever; continually; for an indefinite time.
   • 1670, John Barbour, The Acts and Life of the most victorious Conquerour Robert Bruce King of Scotland, as cited in 1860, Thomas Corser, Collectanea Anglo-poetica, page 160

     O he that hath ay lived free, [...]

• always
• continually
• forever

ay (plural ays)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter A.
   • 2004 Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, p. 170

     It said, in a whispering, buzzing voice, "Gee-you-ess-ess-ay-dash-em-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-em-eye-en-gee-oh-dash-pee-eye-pee-dash-pee-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-pee-eye-en-gee-oh."

   • 2016 CCEB, Communications Instructions Radiotelephone Procedures: ACP125 (G), p. 3-5

     ETA [is spoken] as "ee-tee-ay" instead of "I SPELL Echo Tango Alfa".

• a

• IPA^(key): /eɪ/, (New Zealand) IPA^(key): [æɪ]

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• Rhymes: -eɪ
• Homophones: A, eh

ay

1. New Zealand spelling of eh (question tag)
   • 2013 November 13, “Surprising changes in the way Aucklanders speak”, in Stuff‎:

     For example, New Zealanders tended to say "ay" at the end of sentences, but in the Asian community people used different tags to check whether people were still listening.

• Ay in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

• YA, ya

ay

1. (Mpakwithi) vegetable

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 184

From Proto-Turkic *āń(k). Cognate with Chuvash уйӑх (ujăh) See Turkish ay for more cognates.

• IPA^(key): /ɑj/

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ay (definite accusative ayı, plural aylar)

1. moon
2. month
3. date (day of the month)

   Bu gün ayın neçəsidir? ― What date is it today?

ay

1. Indicates the future tense.

From Proto-Turkic *āń(k) (“moon, month”). Compare Turkish ay (“moon, month”).

ay

1. month
2. moon

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

ay

1. obsolete typography of aj

From Proto-Turkic *āń(k) (“moon, month”). Compare Turkish ay (“moon, month”).

ay (definite accusative ayı, plural aylar)

1. moon
2. month

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἅγιος (hágios).

ay (definite accusative ayı, plural aylar)

1. saint

ay

1. leaf

• Elson, Benjamin F.; Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)‎ (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 10

From Old Spanish ha i (“it has there”).

ay (Latin spelling)

1. there is, there are

Borrowed from Old Norse ei, ey, from Proto-Germanic *aiwa, *aiwō (“ever, always”).

• ai, ey

• IPA^(key): /ɛi̯/

ay

1. always, constantly, unceasingly; eternally, forever

• English: aye
• Yola: aye

• “ai, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

ay

1. Alternative form of ey (“egg”)

ay

1. first-person singular present indicative of avoir

ay

1. leaf
2. brim (of a hat)

• Harrison, Roy; B. de Harrison, Margaret; López Juárez, Francisco; Ordoñes, Cosme (1984) Vocabulario zoque de Rayón (Serie de diccionarios y vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 28)‎ (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 4

From Proto-Turkic *āń(k).

ay (3rd person possessive [[{{{1}}}#Salar|{{{1}}}]], plural [[{{{2}}}#Salar|{{{2}}}]])

1. moon

Tenishev, Edhem (1976), “ay”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow

Probably from a use of aye to express agreement.

ay (not comparable)

1. yes

ay ?

1. dog

• IPA^(key): /ˈai/ [ˈai̯]
• Rhymes: -ai
• Syllabification: ay
• Homophone: hay

¡ay!

1. Ah!, Alas!
2. Woe!
3. expresses pain, sorrow, or surprise
   • 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:

     ¡Ay de ti si no te rebelas!

     Woe is you if you do not rebel!

• ay ay ay
• ay de mí

ay

1. Obsolete spelling of hay

• “ay”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

ay

1. Alternative spelling of ai.

Compare Hanunoo ay, Cebuano kay, Remontado Agta ay, and Ibanag ay. Similar function to Ilocano ket and Pangasinan et.

• 'y – elided form, informal, following a word ending with a vowel or "n"
• e

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔaj/, [ˈʔaɪ̯]
• IPA^(key): /ʔe/, [ʔe] (colloquial)

ay

1. Separates the subject and the predicate. Indicative of a sentence inversion, i.e. from predicate-first form to subject-first form.

   Ako ay Pilipino. (Pilipino ako.)

   I am Filipino.

   Ika'y isang sirena.

   You're a mermaid. (You're gay.)

2. then; so

   Kung gayon ay sumunod sa akin

   If that is so then follow me

3. (regional) Particle used in start or end of sentences to express warning or catch attention. See also: a, o, oy, and aya.

   Parini ka ay/Ay, parini ka. ― Come here.

• (inversion marker): This word is often confused (by speakers of English or similar languages) to mean to be due to its similarity in location on sentences in subject-first form.
• This is usually elided to 'y following a word ending in a vowel in speech and casual and poetic writing.

From Proto-Austronesian *ai and/or Spanish ay. Related to English ay. Compare Hokkien 哎 (ai).

• hay

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔaj/, [ˈʔaɪ̯]

ay

1. general exclamation: alas; no; oh; oops

   Ay! Nahulog.

   Oops! It fell.

   Ay! Mali.

   Oh! It's wrong.

From Proto-Tai *ʔajᴬ (“to cough”). Cognate with Northern Thai ᩋᩱ, Lao ໄອ (ʼai), Lü ᦺᦀ (˙ʼay), Shan ဢႆ (ʼǎi), Tai Nüa ᥟᥭ (ʼay), Aiton ဢႝ (ʼay), Ahom 𑜒𑜩 (ʼay), Zhuang ae, Saek ไอ๋, Thai ไอ (ai).

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [ʔaj˧˧]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [ʔaj˦˥]

ay

1. to cough

   ay bấu oóc pác ― to cough without a sound

   ay khảu bẳng ― to cough into a tube (in fear of it being too noisy)

   da ay ― cough medicine

   tầư lồm đảng, me̱n ay

   They caught the cold wind so they coughed.

• Hoàng Văn Ma; Lục Văn Pảo; Hoàng Chí (2006) Từ điển Tày-Nùng-Việt [Tay-Nung-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Từ điển Bách khoa Hà Nội
• Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎ (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
• Lục Văn Pảo; Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003), Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội

From Ottoman Turkish آی‎ (ay, “moon, month, crescent, a beautiful face”), from Proto-Turkic *āń(k) (“moon, month”).[1]

Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰖‎ (y¹ /ay/, “moon, month”), Karakhanid ااىْ‎ (āy, “moon, month”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (ay, “moon, month”), Azerbaijani ay (“moon”), Bashkir ай (ay, “moon”), Chuvash уйӑх (ujăh, “moon”), Kazakh ай (ai, “moon”), Khakas ай (ay, “moon”), Kyrgyz ай (ay, “moon”), Southern Altai ай (ay, “moon”), Tatar ай (ay, “moon”), Turkmen āý (“moon”), Tuvan ай (ay, “moon”), Uyghur ئاي‎ (ay, “moon”), Uzbek oy (“moon”), Yakut ый (ıy, “moon”).

• IPA^(key): /ɑj/

ay (definite accusative ayı, plural aylar)

1. moon
2. month

From Ottoman Turkish آی‎ (ay!), akin to Karakhanid [script needed] (ay!, “oh!”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (ay!, “oh!”).

ay

1. exclamation of surprise, shock or fear: oh!

   Ay kim gelmiş! ― Oh (look) who is (apparently) here!

2. exclamation of pain: ouch!

   Ay, başım! ― Ouch, my head (hurt)!

• ayol

• hay!
• ey!

• ay in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

ay

1. some (plural indefinite article)

Precedes the noun.

• IPA^(key): /aj/

ay

1. I (first person pronoun)

ay

1. iron

• Beria-English English-Beria Dictionary [provisional] ADESK, Iriba, Kobe Department, Chad