"ael" meaning in Welsh

See ael in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /aːɨ̯l/ [North-Wales], /ai̯l/ [South-Wales] Forms: aeliau [plural]
Rhymes: -aːɨ̯l Etymology: From Old Welsh ail (“eyebrow”), related to Old Breton guorail (“eyebrow”) (probably from guor (“over”) + ail). Etymology templates: {{inh|cy|owl|ail|t=eyebrow}} Old Welsh ail (“eyebrow”), {{cog|obt|guorail|t=eyebrow}} Old Breton guorail (“eyebrow”) Head templates: {{cy-noun|f|aeliau}} ael f (plural aeliau)
  1. eyebrow Tags: feminine Derived forms (Given name): Aelwyn, Aelwen
    Sense id: en-ael-cy-noun-D-d6WQ89 Categories (other): Welsh entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Welsh entries with incorrect language header: 29 15 3 19 34 Disambiguation of 'Given name': 62 38
  2. edge, brow (of a hill) Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-ael-cy-noun-lbHOl5rE Categories (other): Welsh entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Welsh entries with incorrect language header: 29 15 3 19 34
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: aelguchiog (english: frowning), aeliog (english: big-browed), crychu'r aeliau (english: to knit one's brow), dan aeliau rhywun (english: surreptitiously, furtively; under someone's eyebrows) [literally]
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /aːɨ̯l/ [North-Wales], /ai̯l/ [South-Wales] Forms: aeloedd [plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], ael [error-unrecognized-form], hael [prothesis-h]
Rhymes: -aːɨ̯l Etymology: From Proto-Celtic *aglos. Cognate with Irish ál. Etymology templates: {{inh|cy|cel-pro|*aglos}} Proto-Celtic *aglos, {{cog|ga|ál}} Irish ál Head templates: {{cy-noun|f|aeloedd}} ael f (plural aeloedd) Inflection templates: {{cy-mut}}
  1. litter Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-ael-cy-noun-~0pB9qpi
  2. brood Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-ael-cy-noun-eNbcAzME Categories (other): Welsh entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Welsh entries with incorrect language header: 29 15 3 19 34
  3. offspring Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-ael-cy-noun-bPXuCc6h Categories (other): Welsh entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Welsh entries with incorrect language header: 29 15 3 19 34
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "frowning",
      "translation": "frowning",
      "word": "aelguchiog"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "big-browed",
      "translation": "big-browed",
      "word": "aeliog"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "to knit one's brow",
      "translation": "to knit one's brow",
      "word": "crychu'r aeliau"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "surreptitiously, furtively; under someone's eyebrows",
      "tags": [
        "literally"
      ],
      "translation": "surreptitiously, furtively; under someone's eyebrows",
      "word": "dan aeliau rhywun"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cy",
        "2": "owl",
        "3": "ail",
        "t": "eyebrow"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Welsh ail (“eyebrow”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "obt",
        "2": "guorail",
        "t": "eyebrow"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Breton guorail (“eyebrow”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Welsh ail (“eyebrow”), related to Old Breton guorail (“eyebrow”) (probably from guor (“over”) + ail).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "aeliau",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f",
        "2": "aeliau"
      },
      "expansion": "ael f (plural aeliau)",
      "name": "cy-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Welsh",
  "lang_code": "cy",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "29 15 3 19 34",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Welsh entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "_dis1": "62 38",
          "sense": "Given name",
          "word": "Aelwyn"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "62 38",
          "sense": "Given name",
          "word": "Aelwen"
        }
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            [
              47,
              53
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              43,
              51
            ]
          ],
          "english": "He had full dark brown eyes with big black eyebrows.",
          "text": "Roedd ganddo lygaid llawn, brown tywyll, gydag aeliau duon mawr.",
          "translation": "He had full dark brown eyes with big black eyebrows.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
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        "eyebrow"
      ],
      "id": "en-ael-cy-noun-D-d6WQ89",
      "links": [
        [
          "eyebrow",
          "eyebrow"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
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        }
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              21,
              24
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          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
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              17,
              21
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Turn left on the brow of the hill.",
          "text": "Trowch i’r chwith ar ael y bryn.",
          "translation": "Turn left on the brow of the hill.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "edge, brow (of a hill)"
      ],
      "id": "en-ael-cy-noun-lbHOl5rE",
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        [
          "edge",
          "edge"
        ],
        [
          "brow",
          "brow"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/aːɨ̯l/",
      "tags": [
        "North-Wales"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ai̯l/",
      "tags": [
        "South-Wales"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophone": "ail (“second”) stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aːɨ̯l"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ael"
}

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      "args": {
        "1": "cy",
        "2": "cel-pro",
        "3": "*aglos"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Celtic *aglos",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "ál"
      },
      "expansion": "Irish ál",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Celtic *aglos. Cognate with Irish ál.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "aeloedd",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cy-mut",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ael",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hael",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "prothesis-h"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "f",
        "2": "aeloedd"
      },
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    }
  ],
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "Welsh",
  "lang_code": "cy",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "litter"
      ],
      "id": "en-ael-cy-noun-~0pB9qpi",
      "links": [
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          "litter",
          "litter"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
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        {
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          "name": "Welsh entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
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        "brood"
      ],
      "id": "en-ael-cy-noun-eNbcAzME",
      "links": [
        [
          "brood",
          "brood"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "29 15 3 19 34",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Welsh entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "offspring"
      ],
      "id": "en-ael-cy-noun-bPXuCc6h",
      "links": [
        [
          "offspring",
          "offspring"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/aːɨ̯l/",
      "tags": [
        "North-Wales"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ai̯l/",
      "tags": [
        "South-Wales"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophone": "ail (“second”) stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aːɨ̯l"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ael"
}
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    "Pages with entries",
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    "Welsh countable nouns",
    "Welsh entries with incorrect language header",
    "Welsh feminine nouns",
    "Welsh lemmas",
    "Welsh nouns",
    "Welsh nouns with red links in their headword lines",
    "Welsh terms derived from Old Welsh",
    "Welsh terms derived from Proto-Celtic",
    "Welsh terms inherited from Old Welsh",
    "Welsh terms inherited from Proto-Celtic",
    "Welsh terms with homophones"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "english": "frowning",
      "translation": "frowning",
      "word": "aelguchiog"
    },
    {
      "english": "big-browed",
      "translation": "big-browed",
      "word": "aeliog"
    },
    {
      "english": "to knit one's brow",
      "translation": "to knit one's brow",
      "word": "crychu'r aeliau"
    },
    {
      "english": "surreptitiously, furtively; under someone's eyebrows",
      "tags": [
        "literally"
      ],
      "translation": "surreptitiously, furtively; under someone's eyebrows",
      "word": "dan aeliau rhywun"
    },
    {
      "sense": "Given name",
      "word": "Aelwyn"
    },
    {
      "sense": "Given name",
      "word": "Aelwen"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
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      "args": {
        "1": "cy",
        "2": "owl",
        "3": "ail",
        "t": "eyebrow"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Welsh ail (“eyebrow”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "obt",
        "2": "guorail",
        "t": "eyebrow"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Breton guorail (“eyebrow”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Welsh ail (“eyebrow”), related to Old Breton guorail (“eyebrow”) (probably from guor (“over”) + ail).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "aeliau",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "2": "aeliau"
      },
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              47,
              53
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              43,
              51
            ]
          ],
          "english": "He had full dark brown eyes with big black eyebrows.",
          "text": "Roedd ganddo lygaid llawn, brown tywyll, gydag aeliau duon mawr.",
          "translation": "He had full dark brown eyes with big black eyebrows.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "eyebrow"
      ],
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        [
          "eyebrow",
          "eyebrow"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Welsh terms with usage examples"
      ],
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              21,
              24
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              17,
              21
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Turn left on the brow of the hill.",
          "text": "Trowch i’r chwith ar ael y bryn.",
          "translation": "Turn left on the brow of the hill.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "edge, brow (of a hill)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "edge",
          "edge"
        ],
        [
          "brow",
          "brow"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/aːɨ̯l/",
      "tags": [
        "North-Wales"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ai̯l/",
      "tags": [
        "South-Wales"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophone": "ail (“second”) stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aːɨ̯l"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ael"
}

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    "Pages with entries",
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    "Welsh countable nouns",
    "Welsh entries with incorrect language header",
    "Welsh feminine nouns",
    "Welsh lemmas",
    "Welsh nouns",
    "Welsh nouns with red links in their headword lines",
    "Welsh terms derived from Proto-Celtic",
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    "Welsh terms with homophones"
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      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
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      },
      "expansion": "Irish ál",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Celtic *aglos. Cognate with Irish ál.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "aeloedd",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cy-mut",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ael",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hael",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "prothesis-h"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "f",
        "2": "aeloedd"
      },
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    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "cy-mut"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Welsh",
  "lang_code": "cy",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "litter"
      ],
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        [
          "litter",
          "litter"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "brood"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "brood",
          "brood"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "offspring"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "offspring",
          "offspring"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ipa": "/aːɨ̯l/",
      "tags": [
        "North-Wales"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ai̯l/",
      "tags": [
        "South-Wales"
      ]
    },
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      "homophone": "ail (“second”) stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aːɨ̯l"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ael"
}

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