# ael
## English
### Alternative forms

* ayle
* æl
* aieul
* ail

### Etymology

From Middle English aiel.

### Noun

ael (plural aels)
* (law, common law, historical) grandfather; forefather, ancestor
** 1864, “Reports of Cases in Trinity Term, 32 Edw. I.”, in Alfred J. Horwood, editor, Year Books of the Reign of King Edward the First. Years XXXII–XXXIII, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, page 256:Richard de C. brought a writ of Ael against the Prior of Plumtone, and demanded so much &c. ; and counted that William his grandfather was seised &c. ; that from William it descended to William ; and from William to Richard the present demandant.

### References

* ↑ Noah Webster (1828) “ayle”, in A Dictionary of the English Language‎, volume 1, New York, retrieved 2017-01-17
* 1 2 3 Henry Campbell Black (1910) “ÆL”, in Black's Law Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, West Publishing Company, archived from the original on 17 October 2015
* ↑ “ail”, in The Law-french Dictionary Alphabetically Digested, 2nd edition, London, 1718, retrieved 2017-01-17

### Anagrams

* E-la, Lae, LEA, ale, Lea, LAE, Ale, lea, EAL, ELA, Ela

## Crimean Gothic
### Etymology

Either from Turkic or from Proto-Germanic *halluz.

### Noun

ael
* stone
** 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Legationis Turcicae Epistolae Quatuor:Ael. Lapis.Stone. Stone.

## Kabuverdianu
### Etymology

From Portuguese ele.

### Pronoun

ael
* he, she, third person singular.

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology

From Old Dutch *āl, from Proto-West Germanic *āl.

### Noun

âel m
* eel

#### Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

#### Descendants

* Dutch: aal
* Limburgish: aol

### Further reading

* “ael”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
* Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “ael (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

## Middle Irish
### Noun

ael m
* Alternative spelling of áel

### Mutation
## Welsh

Picture dictionary :
ael
penglog
talcen
ymennydd
ael
llygad
gwefus
trwyn
ceg
gên
boch
clust
arlais
gwddf
or
llwnc
gwddf
gwar :

### Pronunciation

* (North Wales) IPA: /aːɨ̯l/
* (South Wales) IPA: /ai̯l/
* Homophone: ail (“second”) (South Wales)
* Rhymes: -aːɨ̯l

### Etymology 1

From Old Welsh ail (“eyebrow”), related to Old Breton guorail (“eyebrow”) (probably from guor (“over”) + ail).

#### Noun

ael f (plural aeliau)
* eyebrow
    Roedd ganddo lygaid llawn, brown tywyll, gydag aeliau duon mawr.He had full dark brown eyes with big black eyebrows.
* edge, brow (of a hill)
    Trowch i’r chwith ar ael y bryn.Turn left on the brow of the hill.

##### Derived terms

* aelguchiog (“frowning”)
* aeliog (“big-browed”)
* (Given name): Aelwen
* (Given name): Aelwyn
* crychu'r aeliau (“to knit one's brow”)
* dan aeliau rhywun (“surreptitiously, furtively”, literally “under someone's eyebrows”)

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *aglos. Cognate with Irish ál.

#### Noun

ael f (plural aeloedd)
* litter
* brood
* offspring

### References

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “ael”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies