adle

adle

See also: adlē and ädle

English

Etymology

From Middle English adle, from Old English ādl (“disease, infirmity, sickness, pain, languishing sickness, consumption”), from Proto-West Germanic *aidlu, from Proto-Germanic *aidlō, *aidlaz (“burning, fever, disease”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- (“to burn, shine”). Compare Middle Low German ādel (“ulcer, wound, sore”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪdəl/

Noun

adle

1. (obsolete) Sickness; disease.

Anagrams

• ALDE, Adel, Dale, Deal, Dela, E.D. La., Lade, Leda, dale, deal, lade, lead

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German

Pronunciation

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Verb

adle

1. inflection of adeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From the oblique forms of Old English ādl, from Proto-West Germanic *aidlu, from Proto-Germanic *aidlō.

Alternative forms

• adl, alde, odle

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːdəl/, /ˈadəl/, /ˈɔːdəl/, /-lə/

Noun

adle

1. disease

Descendants

• English: adle

References

• “ā̆dle, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-10.

Adjective

adle

1. inflection of adel:
   1. weak singular
   2. strong/weak plural

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From German adeln.

Verb

adle (imperative adl or adle, present tense adler, passive adles, simple past and past participle adla or adlet, present participle adlende)

1. to knight (someone), raise (someone) to the peerage, ennoble

Related terms

• adel

References

• “adle” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “adle” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

adle (present tense adlar, past tense adla, past participle adla, passive infinitive adlast, present participle adlande, imperative adle/adl)

1. E-infinitive form of adla

Etymology 2

From of alle with pre-occlusion; compare adde. From Old Norse allir m or late Old Norse alli n.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ad.lə/, [²ɐ̞d.lə], (Rogaland) [²a̝d.lə]

Determiner

adle

1. (dialectal) plural of all
   • 1647, “LAnte oster Kraakelund”, in Den fyrste morgonblånen, Oslo: Novus, published 1990, page 42:

     Ere de no adle mætte

     Are you all full[?]

References

• “adle” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• adel

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Scots

Alternative forms

• addil, aidle, aidil

Etymology

From Middle English adel (“rotten”), from Old English adel, adela (“mire, pool, liquid excrement”), from Proto-West Germanic *adal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈadl/, /ˈɛdl/

Adjective

adle (not comparable)

1. foul, putrid, issuing from a cowhouse or dunghill.

Noun

adle (plural adles)

1. foul and putrid water, ditch water, byre wash, liquid manure.
2. The urine of black cattle.

Verb

adle (third-person singular simple present adles, present participle adlin, simple past adled, past participle adled)

1. To water the roots of plants with the urine of cattle.

References

• “adle, n., adj., v.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.