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"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
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"English terms with homophones",
"English uncomparable adverbs",
"Pages with 25 entries",
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"Rhymes:English/eɪ",
"Rhymes:English/eɪ/1 syllable",
"zag:Metals"
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{
"word": "ay-green"
},
{
"word": "forever and ay"
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "ai"
},
"expansion": "Middle English ai",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "non",
"3": "ei"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse ei",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*aiwaz",
"4": "",
"5": "eternity, age"
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"name": "der"
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"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*h₂eyu-",
"4": "",
"5": "vitality"
},
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},
{
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"1": "ang",
"2": "ā"
},
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},
{
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"1": "grc",
"2": "ἀεί",
"3": "",
"4": "always"
},
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},
{
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"1": "la",
"2": "aevum",
"3": "",
"4": "an age"
},
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"name": "cog"
}
],
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"pos": "adv",
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{
"categories": [
"English poetic terms",
"English terms with archaic senses",
"Northern England English"
],
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{
"ref": "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",
"text": "O he that hath ay lived free, …"
}
],
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"Always; ever; continually; for an indefinite time."
],
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[
"Always",
"always"
],
[
"ever",
"ever"
],
[
"continually",
"continually"
],
[
"indefinite",
"indefinite"
],
[
"time",
"time"
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],
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"(archaic, poetic or Northern England) Always; ever; continually; for an indefinite time."
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"not-comparable",
"poetic"
]
}
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"ipa": "/ˈeɪ/"
},
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{
"rhymes": "-eɪ"
},
{
"homophone": "A"
},
{
"homophone": "eh"
}
],
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{
"word": "always"
},
{
"word": "continually"
},
{
"word": "forever"
},
{
"word": "aye"
}
],
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}
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"English nouns",
"English terms with homophones",
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"zag:Metals"
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"2": "ee",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Rohingya: ee",
"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "tl",
"2": "ey",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Tagalog: ey",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Tagalog: ey"
}
],
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{
"form": "ays",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
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"pos": "noun",
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{
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"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"en:Latin letter names"
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{
"ref": "2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170:",
"text": "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.\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2016 CCEB, Communications Instructions Radiotelephone Procedures: ACP125 (G), p. 3-5",
"text": "ETA [is spoken] as \"ee-tee-ay\" instead of \"I SPELL Echo Tango Alfa\"."
}
],
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"The name of the Latin-script letter A/a."
],
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"A",
"A#English"
],
[
"a",
"a#English"
]
]
}
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{
"word": "a"
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"args": {},
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"lang_code": "en",
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{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"New Zealand English"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2013 November 13, “Surprising changes in the way Aucklanders speak”, in Stuff:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"New Zealand spelling of eh (question tag)"
],
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"eh",
"eh#English"
]
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/eɪ/"
},
{
"ipa": "[æe̯]",
"tags": [
"New-Zealand"
]
},
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{
"rhymes": "-eɪ"
},
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"homophone": "A"
},
{
"homophone": "eh"
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}
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"zag:Metals"
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"etymology_text": "Origin uncertain; possibly related to eh and hey; popularized by a catch phrase in a 1970s sitcom.",
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"categories": [
"English links with manual fragments"
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"All right (inter); hooray (inter); cool (inter)."
],
"links": [
[
"All right",
"all right#Interjection"
],
[
"hooray",
"hooray#Interjection"
],
[
"cool",
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]
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},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪ"
},
{
"homophone": "A"
},
{
"homophone": "eh"
}
],
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}
Download raw JSONL data for ay meaning in English (11.4kB)
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"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: Mid-Ulster, others",
"path": [
"ay"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "interjection",
"title": "ay",
"trace": ""
}
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"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: Mid-Ulster, others",
"path": [
"ay"
],
"section": "English",
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}
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