ay

See also: Ay, AY, aý, aþ, -ay, ấy, āy, and -aþ

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aɪ/ (interjection)
    • Rhymes: -aɪ
    • Homophones: aye, eye, I

Interjection

ay

  1. Ah! alas!
  2. Alternative spelling of aye ("yes")
    • 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V
      "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?"

Noun

ay (plural ays)

  1. Alternative spelling of aye ("yes")
    counting the ays and the noes in a vote

Etymology 2

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”).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eɪ/ (adverb, adjective)
    • Rhymes: -eɪ
    • Homophones: A, eh

Adverb

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, [...]
Synonyms

Interjection

ay

  1. New Zealand spelling of eh (question tag)

Further reading

Anagrams

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic ај
Roman ay
Perso-Arabic آی‎

Etymology

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (ay, “moon”), from Proto-Turkic.

Noun

ay (definite accusative ayı, plural aylar)

  1. moon
  2. month

Declension

Declension of ay
singular plural
nominative ay aylar
definite accusative ayı ayları
dative aya aylara
locative ayda aylarda
ablative aydan aylardan
definite genitive ayın ayların

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

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

Noun

ay

  1. month
  2. moon

Declension

References

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

Czech

Interjection

ay

  1. obsolete typography of aj

Gagauz

Etymology 1

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

Noun

ay (definite accusative ayı, plural aylar)

  1. moon
  2. month

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἅγιος (hágios).

Noun

ay (definite accusative ayı, plural aylar)

  1. saint

Ladino

Etymology

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

Verb

ay (Latin spelling)

  1. there is, there are

Middle French

Verb

ay

  1. first-person singular present indicative of avoir

Scots

Etymology

Probably from a use of aye to express agreement.

Adverb

ay (not comparable)

  1. yes

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Interjection

¡ay!

  1. Ah!, Alas!
  2. Woe!
  3. Expresses pain, sorrow, or surprise.


Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English eye.

Noun

ay

  1. eye

Tagalog

Preposition

ay

  1. Equality marker. It can be translated as is, am, are, was, will be, etc., but functions as a preposition, not a verb.
  2. Verb/predicate marker. Only used when the verb or predicate does not begin the sentence.

Turkish

Etymology 1

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

Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰖‎ (ay, “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 (ay, “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”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aj/

Noun

ay (definite accusative ayı, plural aylar)

  1. moon
  2. month
Declension
Inflection
Nominative ay
Definite accusative ayı
Singular Plural
Nominative ay aylar
Definite accusative ayı ayları
Dative aya aylara
Locative ayda aylarda
Ablative aydan aylardan
Genitive ayın ayların

Etymology 2

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

Interjection

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)!
See also

Further reading

  • ay in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

References

  1. ↑ Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*āń(k)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Wolof

Article

ay

  1. some (plural indefinite article)

Usage notes

Precedes the noun.

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