ay

Interjection

 * 1) Ah! alas!
 * 2)   ("yes")

Noun

 * 1)  ("yes")
 * counting the ays and the noes in a vote

Etymology 2
From, from , from , from ; cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬.

Adverb

 * 1)  Always; ever; continually; for an indefinite time.
 * 2) * 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, [...]

Noun

 * 1) * 2016 CCEB, Communications Instructions Radiotelephone Procedures: ACP125 (G), p. 3-5
 * ETA [is spoken] as "ee-tee-ay" instead of "I SPELL Echo Tango Alfa".
 * 1) * 2016 CCEB, Communications Instructions Radiotelephone Procedures: ACP125 (G), p. 3-5
 * ETA [is spoken] as "ee-tee-ay" instead of "I SPELL Echo Tango Alfa".

Interjection

 * 1)  (question tag)

Alternative forms

 * aye

Etymology 5
Origin uncertain; possibly related to and ; popularized by a catch phrase in a 1970s sitcom.

Interjection

 * 1) All right; ;.

Noun

 * 1) arrow

Pronoun

 * 1) he

Noun

 * 1)  vegetable

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬 See 🇨🇬 for more cognates.

Noun

 * 1) moon
 * 2) month
 * 3) date day of the month

Etymology
. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) month
 * 2) moon

Etymology 1
From. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) moon
 * 2) month

Etymology 2
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) saint

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) there is, there are

Etymology 1
,, from ,.

Adverb

 * 1) always, constantly, unceasingly; eternally, forever

Noun

 * 1)  of a hat
 * 1)  of a hat

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) moon

Etymology 1
.

Interjection

 * 1) yes; yea; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative answer to a question

Noun

 * 1) dog

Etymology 1
Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

 * 1) ah!, alas!
 * 2) woe!
 * 3) expresses pain, sorrow, or surprise

Etymology 1
Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬. Similar function to and.

Particle

 * 1) then; so
 * 1) then; so
 * 1) then; so
 * 1) then; so

Usage notes

 * This word is often confused (by speakers of English or similar languages) to mean to be due to its similarity in location on sentences in subject-first form.
 * This is usually elided to following a word ending in a vowel in speeches, casual, or poetic writing.

Etymology 2
From and/or. Related to 🇨🇬. Compare.

Interjection

 * : alas; no; oh; oops

Etymology 3
, the English name of the letter /.

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to cough

Etymology 1
From, from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) moon
 * 2) month

Etymology 2
From, akin to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Interjection

 * 1) exclamation of surprise, shock or fear: oh!
 * 2) exclamation of pain: ouch!
 * 1) exclamation of pain: ouch!

Article

 * 1) some plural indefinite article

Usage notes
Precedes the noun.

Noun

 * 1) I (first person pronoun)

Noun

 * 1) iron