Word: aisling
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: ai
sling
Definition: A kind of Irish poem, developed during the late 17th and 18th centuries, in which Ireland appears to the poet in a vision in the form of a woman, lamenting the state of the Irish people and predicting the revival of their fortunes.
Morphemes:
Affix: aisle
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A wing of a building, notably in a church separated from the nave proper by piers.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: āla
Language: la
Decoded: ala
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A wing or winglike anatomic process or part, especially of bone.
Affix: -ing
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns, from verbs.