# aye
## English
### Etymology 1

From Middle English ay, ai, aȝȝ, from Old Norse ei, ey, from Proto-Germanic *aiwa, *aiwō (“ever, always”) (compare Old English āwo, āwa, ā, ō, Middle Dutch ie, German je), from *aiwaz (“age; law”) (compare Old English ǣ(w) (“law”), West Frisian ieu (“century”), Dutch eeuw (“century”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“long time”) (compare Irish aois (“age, period”), Breton oad (“age, period”), Latin ævum (“eternity”), Ancient Greek αἰών (aiṓn)). Doublet of aeviternity and aevum.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /eɪ/
** Rhymes: -eɪ
* (sometimes proscribed) IPA: /aɪ/
** Rhymes: -aɪ
** Homophones: ay, eye, I

#### Adverb

aye (not comparable)
* (archaic) ever, always
** 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:[…] Do that good miſcheefe, which may make this Iſland / Thine owne for euer, and I thy Caliban, / For aye thy foot-licker.
** 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, / And southward aye we fled.
** 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter XIII, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:Huge hills and mountains of casks on casks were piled upon her wharves, and side by side the world-wandering whale ships lay silent and safely moored at last; while from others came a sound of carpenters and coopers, with blended noises of fires and forges to melt the pitch, all betokening that new cruises were on the start; that one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever and for aye.
** 1863, Catherine Winkworth (translator), Praise to the Lord, the Almighty:Let the Amen sound from His people again; / Gladly for aye we adore Him.

##### Quotations

* For quotations using this term, see Citations:aye.

##### Derived terms

* ayegreen

##### References

* ↑ John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “aye”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

##### Further reading

* Joseph Wright, editor (1898), “AYE, adv.$^1$.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume I (A–C), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 104.

### Etymology 2

"Appears suddenly about 1575, and is exceedingly common about 1600." Probably from use of aye (“ever, always”) as expression of agreement or affirmation, or from Middle English a ye (“oh yes”), or synthesis of both. Compare Faroese ája (“certainly, ah yes”). More at oh, yea. Online Etymology Dictionary also with these posits a possible descent from I (as if clipped from e.g. "I assent").

#### Alternative forms

* ay

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aɪ/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
** Rhymes: -aɪ
* Homophones: ay, eye, I

#### Interjection

aye
* yes; yea; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative answer to a question.
* (nautical) a word used to acknowledge a command from a superior, usually preceded by a verbatim repeat-back.

##### Usage notes

* It is much used in Scotland, the north and Midlands of England, Northern Ireland, and North Wales, as well as in New Zealand (where it may follow rather than precede a statement). Also notably seen in viva voce voting in legislative bodies, etc., or in nautical contexts.

##### Synonyms

* yes
* yea

##### Antonyms

* nay
* no

##### Derived terms

* aye aye
* aye man
* och aye
* we aye
* well aye
* wye aye

##### References

* Frank Graham, editor (1987), “AYE”, in The New Geordie Dictionary, Rothbury, Northumberland: Butler Publishing, →ISBN.
* Scott Dobson, Dick Irwin “aye”, in Newcastle 1970s: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎, archived from the original on 2024-09-05.
* Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “aye”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN.
* Joseph Wright, editor (1898), “AYE, adv.$^2$.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume I (A–C), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, pages 104-105.

#### Verb

aye (third-person singular simple present ayes, present participle ayeing or (now nonstandard) aying, simple past and past participle ayed)
* To respond with an "aye".
** 1981, Penelope Neri, Passion's Rapture, p. 160:
    The men ayed their agreement.

#### Noun

aye (plural ayes)
* An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative.
    "To call for the ayes and nays;" "The ayes have it."

##### Synonyms

* yes

##### Translations
#### References

* ↑ James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Aye”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume I (A–B), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 601, column 3.

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aɪ/, /eɪ/
** (New Zealand) IPA: [æe̯]

#### Interjection

aye
* (MLE, MTE, regional African-American Vernacular, Chicano) Misspelling of eh.
* (New Zealand) Alternative spelling of ay (question tag)

### Anagrams

* yae, yea

## Baba Malay
### Etymology

From Malay air (“water”).

### Noun

aye
* water

### References

* ↑ Nala H. Lee (2022) A Grammar of Modern Baba Malay‎, De Gruyter, →DOI, →ISBN

## Franco-Provençal
### Noun

aye
* plural of aya

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Betawi ayè. Doublet of saya.

### Pronoun

aye
* (Jakarta, colloquial) First-person singular pronoun: I, me, my

#### Synonyms

Other pronouns with the same meaning used in Jakarta:
* gue, ogut
Other pronouns with the same meaning used elsewhere:
* aku (informal)
* ku
* daku (poetic)
* saya (formal)
* gua, gw (Java)
* hamba

## Kerinci
### Alternative forms

Alternative forms by dialect :
| Pondok Tinggi | ayai, ayei |
| Semerap | {{{smr}}} |
| Sungai Penuh | aye, ayei |
| Tanjung Pauh Mudik | {{{tpm}}} |

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈje/

### Noun

aye
* water
    gunounyo supayo aye idek tageneng tengoh lamangits purpose is so that water not to pool at the yard

### References

* Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*wahiR”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

### Further reading

* Usman, A. Hakim (1985) “aye”, in Kamus Umum Kerinci—Indonesia, Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa

## Middle English
### Noun

aye (plural ayer or ayren)
* Alternative form of ey (“egg”)

## Scots
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aɪ/

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse ei, ey, cognate with Old English ā. See the etymology for the English word above.

#### Alternative forms

* ay, ey

#### Adverb

aye (not comparable)
* always, still
    A'll aye be wi ye an A'm nae carin whit thay sae.I'll always be with you and I don't care what they say.
    It'll aye be the same wi thaim thou.It'll still be the same with them though.

### Etymology 2
#### Interjection

aye
* Alternative form of ay

### References

* “ay, adv.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
* “ay, interj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.
* “aye, adv.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.

## Spanish
### Noun

aye m (plural ayes)
* whine; whining; whinging

## Yola
### Etymology

From Middle English ay, from Old Norse ey.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /eː/
* Homophone: a

### Adverb

aye
* ever
** 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 14-15:till ee zin o'oure daies be var aye be ee-go t'glade.until the sun of our lives (be for ever) be gone down the dark valley (of death).

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 116

## Yoruba
### Alternative forms

* ايعِ
* aiyé (archaic)

### Etymology 1

Cognate with Edo aye

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ā.jé/

#### Noun

ayé
* world
* life

##### Derived terms

* aláyé
* ará ayé
* aráyé (“hunmankind”)
* Ayé
* ayé lọjà, ọ̀run nilé
* Ayédọgbọ́n
* Ayéfẹ́lẹ́
* Ayégbùsì
* Ayétòrò
* Ayéyẹmí
* ilé ayé (“world”)
* jayé (“to enjoy life”)
* jàde láyé (“to die”)
* Jáyésinmi
* láyé (“to be alive, in the world”)
* láyé àtijọ́ (“in the past, historically”)
* láéláé
* ṣayé
* wáyé (“to come into existence”)
* àgbáyé (“international, worldwide”)

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /à.jè/

#### Noun

àyè
* chance, opportunity

##### Derived terms

* ráyè (“to get the opportunity”)

### Etymology 3
#### Alternative forms

* aè, àè

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ā.jè/, /à.jè/

#### Noun

àyè
* (Ekiti) lies, falsehood
    Synonyms: irọ́, ụrọ́, èké

##### Derived terms

* ṣàyè (“to lie”)
* Ifáàláyè
* Fáláè
* Aóòláyè
* Ọbànị̀fọ̀nṣaè