ayeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /eɪ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪ
• (sometimes proscribed)^[1] IPA^(key): /aɪ/
  • Rhymes: -aɪ
  • Homophones: ay, eye, I

副詞

aye (not comparable)

2. (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 606515358, [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 57395299:

     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, Translation by Catherine Winkworth:

     Let the Amen sound from His people again; Gladly for aye we adore Him. (Praise to the Lord, the Almighty)

引用

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

参照

語源 2

"Appears suddenly about 1575, and is exceedingly common about 1600."^[1] 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. More at oh, yea.

別の表記

• ay

発音

• IPA^(key): /aɪ/
  • Rhymes: -aɪ
• Homophones: ay, eye, I

間投詞

aye

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

使用する際の注意点

• It is much used in Scotland, the north and Midlands of England, Northern Ireland, 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.

同意語

• yes
• yea

反意語

• nay
• no

派生語

参照

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN
• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [2]
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN

名詞

aye (複数形 ayes)

1. An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative.

   "To call for the ayes and nays;" "The ayes have it."

同意語

• yes

参照

語源 3

Probably of multiple motivations, the sounds having been chosen for functional reasons.

発音

• IPA^(key): /aɪ/, /æɪ/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): [æɪ]

間投詞

aye

1. (MLE, MTE, regional African-American Vernacular) an attention grabber

   Synonyms: hey, oi, I say

   Aye, come here!

   Aye, what do you have?

2. (New Zealand) Alternative spelling of ay (question tag)

アナグラム

• yae, yea