aiee: difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Content deleted Content added
No edit summary Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit |
|||
(6 intermediate revisions by 4 users not shown) | |||
Line 5: | Line 5: | ||
===Etymology=== |
===Etymology=== |
||
Onomatopoeic. |
|||
Imitative. |
|||
===Interjection=== |
===Interjection=== |
||
Line 11: | Line 11: | ||
# A shout of [[pain]] or [[alarm]]. |
# A shout of [[pain]] or [[alarm]]. |
||
#* |
#* {{quote-text|en|year=2010|author=Cormac McCarthy|title=Cities of the Plain|page=239 |
||
|passage=He caught her as she went past and pulled her around. She threw up her hands and closed her good eye. '''Aiee''', she cried. '''Aiee'''.}} |
|||
---- |
|||
==Manx== |
==Manx== |
||
===Etymology=== |
===Etymology=== |
||
From {{inh|gv|sga|áith|g=f||drying-kiln (for grain)}}, from the same root as {{m|ine-pro|*h₂eh₁ter-||fire}} (compare |
From {{inh|gv|sga|áith|g=f||drying-kiln (for grain)}}, from {{inh|gv|cel-pro|*ātis}}, from the same root as {{m|ine-pro|*h₂eh₁ter-||fire}} (compare {{cog|la|āter}}). |
||
===Noun=== |
===Noun=== |
||
Line 27: | Line 25: | ||
====Derived terms==== |
====Derived terms==== |
||
{{der3| |
{{der3|gv|{{l|gv|aiee eayil||lime kiln}}|{{l|gv|aiee obb||oast house}}|{{l|gv|aiee vraghey||malt kiln}}|{{l|gv|aiee lus y lhionney||hop kiln}}}} |
Latest revision as of 22:46, 18 February 2024
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Onomatopoeic.
Interjection
[edit]aiee
- A shout of pain or alarm.
- 2010, Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain, page 239:
- He caught her as she went past and pulled her around. She threw up her hands and closed her good eye. Aiee, she cried. Aiee.
Manx
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish áith f (“drying-kiln (for grain)”), from Proto-Celtic *ātis, from the same root as *h₂eh₁ter- (“fire”) (compare Latin āter).
Noun
[edit]aiee f (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])
Derived terms
[edit]- aiee eayil (“lime kiln”)
- aiee lus y lhionney (“hop kiln”)
- aiee obb (“oast house”)
- aiee vraghey (“malt kiln”)