Ayとは

意味・読み方・使い方

派生語

• amscray
• itshay
• ixnay

アナグラム

• YA, ya

間投詞

ay

1. Ah! alas!
2. Alternative spelling of aye ("yes")
   • 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V

     "Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow," quoth Robin, "thou seemest happy this merry morn."

     "Ay, that am I," quoth the jolly Butcher, "and why should I not be so? Am I not hale in wind and limb? Have I not the bonniest lass in all Nottinghamshire? And lastly, am I not to be married to her on Thursday next in sweet Locksley Town?"

   • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure‎^[1]:

     "I swear also that I will honour and will cherish thee, Kallikrates, who hast been swept by the wave of time back into my arms, ay, till the very end, come it soon or late."

名詞

ay (複数形 ays)

1. Alternative spelling of aye ("yes")

   counting the ays and the noes in a vote

語源 2

From Middle English ai, from Old Norse ei, from Proto-Germanic *aiwaz (“eternity, age”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vitality”); cognate with 古期英語 ā, Ancient Greek ἀεί (aeí, “always”), and Latin aevum (“an age”).

別の表記

• aye

発音

• IPA^(key): /eɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ
• Homophones: A, eh

副詞

ay (not comparable)

1. (archaic, poetic or Northern England) Always; ever; continually; for an indefinite time.
   • 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, [...]

同意語

• always
• continually
• forever

発音

• IPA^(key): /eɪ/, (New Zealand) IPA^(key): [æɪ]
• Rhymes: -eɪ
• Homophones: A, eh

間投詞

ay

1. New Zealand spelling of eh (question tag)
   • 2013 November 13, “Surprising changes in the way Aucklanders speak”, in Stuff‎^[2]:

     For example, New Zealanders tended to say "ay" at the end of sentences, but in the Asian community people used different tags to check whether people were still listening.

Further reading

• Ay in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

アナグラム

• YA, ya

アナグラム

• YA, ya