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wale

See also: Wale, walë, and walę

English

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Etymology 1

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The noun is from Middle English wāle (“planking, welt”), from Old English walu (“ridge, bank; rib, comb (of helmet); metal ridge on top of helmet; weal, mark of a blow”), from Proto-Germanic *waluz (“stick, root”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”). Akin to Low German wāle; Old Norse vala (“knuckle”). The verb is from late Middle English wālen, from the noun.

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wale (plural wales)

  1. A ridge or low barrier.
  2. A raised rib in knitted goods or fabric, especially corduroy.
    Coordinate term: course
    • 2008, Mary Lisa Gavenas, The Fairchild Encyclopedia of Menswear, page 99:
      The fabric may be further described according to the number of wales per inch: Corduroy known as fine wale, pin-wale, or needle wale has very thin wales (usually twelve or more per inch, i.e., the width of a pin), while wide wale corduroy has thicker wales (usually six or fewer per inch).
  3. The texture of a piece of fabric.
    • 1892, “Family Fashions and Fancies”, in Good Housekeeping, volume 14, page 85:
      Crepon cloths, with their heavy crape-like wale, are a noteworthy part of the season's importations.
  4. (nautical) A horizontal ridge or ledge on the outside planking of a wooden ship. (See gunwale, chainwale)
    • 1863, Andrew Murray, Ship-building in Iron and Wood, page 93:
      The strakes between the several ranges of ports, beginning from under the upper-deck ports of a three-decked ship in the royal navy, are called the channel wale, the middle wale, and the main wale.
  5. A horizontal timber used for supporting or retaining earth.
    • 1889 February 23, Architecture and Building: A Journal of Investment and Construction, volume 10, page 63:
      A few feet below the first wale another timber is inserted, likewise secured by struts.
  6. A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.[1]
    • 1754, Thomas Gardner, An Historical Account of Dunwich […] :
      Except Plank upon the Head of the Key, and under the upper Wale, and Plank to join the piles.
  7. A ridge on the outside of a horse collar.
    • 1976, Ralph Whitlock, Gentle giants: the past, present and future of the heavy horse, page 133:
      The wale is shaped to the size of the horse's neck, and then sewn together, with a flap, known as the 'barge', left free along one side. To this 'barge' the body of the collar is sewn.
  8. A ridge or streak produced on skin by a cane or whip.
    • c. 1600, John Ayliffe, Satires:
      Shall then that foule infamous Cyneds hide Laugh at the purple wales of others side?
    • 1854, S. W. Koelle, African Native Literature, Or Proverbs, Tales, Fables and Historical in the Kanuri Or Bornu Language:
      When the rat had looked at the toad's whole body, and not seen any wale of a stick, he said to the toad, "Brother toad, I have looked at thy whole body, and not seen any wale of a stick: thou art right."
    • 2018, Seabury Quinn, The Dark Angel: The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin, Volume Three:
      I ran to her, and when I reached her I saw across the white skin of her shoulders the distinct wale of a whip.
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wale (third-person singular simple present wales, present participle waling, simple past and past participle waled)

  1. To strike the skin in such a way as to produce a wale or welt.
    • 1832, Owen Felltham, Resolves, Divine, Moral, Political:
      Would suffer his lazy rider to bestride his patie: back, with his hands and whip to wale his flesh, and with his heels to dig into his hungry bowels?
  2. To beat a person, especially as punishment or out of anger.
    • 2002, Hal Rothman, Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century:
      When faced with an adulthood that offered few options, grinding poverty and marriage to a man who drank too much and came home to wale on his own family or...no beatings.
  3. To give a surface a texture of wales or welts.
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English wale, wal, from Old Norse val (“choice”), from Proto-Germanic *walą, *walō (“desire, choice”), from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose, want”). Akin to Old Norse velja (“to choose”), Old High German wala "choice" (German Wahl "choice"), Old English willan (“to want”). More at will.

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wale (plural wales)

  1. (Scotland, Northern England) Something selected as being the best, preference; choice.

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wale (third-person singular simple present wales, present participle waling, simple past and past participle waled)

  1. (Scotland, Northern England) To choose, select.
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  1. ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Wale”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes III (REA–ZYM), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.

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Afar

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /waˈle/ [wʌˈlɛ]
  • Hyphenation: wa‧le

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walé f 

  1. possibility

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  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 75

Fulniô

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wale

  1. pig

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  • 2009 (originally 1968), Douglas Meland, Doris Meland, Fulniô (Yahthe) Syntax Structure: Preliminary Version, Associação Internacional de Linguística - SIL Brasil, page 19.

Hawaiian

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  • IPA(key): /ˈwa.le/, [ˈʋɐ.le]

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wale

  1. phlegm
  2. saliva

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wale

  1. Used to modify the preceding word only, just, alone; quite, very; simply, for free, without reason

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  • Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “wale”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press

Middle Dutch

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wāle

  1. Alternative form of wel

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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From Old English wealh. For the phonological development, compare hale.

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wale

  1. (rare) An outsider; a guest; one from an unfamiliar land.
  2. (rare) A thrall; a hireling.
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Etymology 2

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From Old English walu, from Proto-West Germanic *walu, from Proto-Germanic *waluz.

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wale (plural wales)

  1. A wooden board used for creating the exterior of a vessel; planking.
  2. (rare) A welt; an injury created by use of a whip or a similar weapon.
  3. (rare) A lesion; a boil.
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  • English: wale, weal
  • Scots: wale, wail
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Etymology 3

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Borrowed from Old Norse *valu, earlier form of vǫl, variant of val, from Proto-Germanic *walą.

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Noun

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wale

  1. A selection or possibility; a decision.
  2. (rare) A preference; something chosen due to its quality.
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Adjective

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wale

  2. amazing, of great quality or talent.
  3. pleasing, nice, enjoyable, benevolent
  4. strong, firm, strengthy
  5. (negatively) impactful, grievous, melancholy
  6. (rare) decided, resolved, picked.
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Etymology 4

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Noun

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wale

  1. Alternative form of vale

Etymology 5

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Noun

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wale

  1. Alternative form of wal

Etymology 6

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Verb

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wale

  1. Alternative form of walen

Etymology 7

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Noun

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wale

  1. Alternative form of whale

North Frisian

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Etymology

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From Old Frisian willa.

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wale

  1. (Mooring) to want

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Mooring conjugation of wale
infinitive I wale
infinitive II tu walen
infinitive III än wal
past participle wäljt
imperative -
  present past
1st-person singular ik wal ik wälj
2nd-person singular dü wäät dü wäist
3rd-person singular hi/jü/et wal hi/jü/et wälj
1st-person dual wat wan wat wänj
2nd-person dual jat wan jat wänj
1st-person plural we wan we wänj
2nd-person plural jam wan jam wänj
3rd-person plural ja wan ja wänj
  perfect pluperfect
1st-person singular ik hääw wäljt ik häi wäljt
2nd-person singular dü hääst wäljt dü häist wäljt
3rd-person singular hi/jü/et heet wäljt hi/jü/et häi wäljt
1st-person dual wat hääwe wäljt wat häin wäljt
2nd-person dual jat hääwe wäljt jat häin wäljt
1st-person plural we hääwe wäljt we häin wäljt
2nd-person plural jam hääwe wäljt jam häin wäljt
3rd-person plural ja hääwe wäljt ja häin wäljt
  future
1st-person singular ik wård wale
2nd-person singular dü wårst wale
3rd-person singular hi/jü/et wårt wale
1st-person dual wat wårde wale
2nd-person dual jat wårde wale
1st-person plural we wårde wale
2nd-person plural jam wårde wale
3rd-person plural ja wårde wale

Polish

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wale m inan or m animal

  1. locative/vocative singular of wał

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wale m animal

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of wal

Pukapukan

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *fale, from Proto-Central Pacific *vale, from Proto-Oceanic *pale, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay.

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wale

  1. house
    Nō mātou te wale nei.
    This is our house.
  2. home
    Ka wano au ki wale kaikai.
    I'll go home and eat.
  3. building

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Scots

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Etymology

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From Middle English wal, wale, from Old Norse val (“choice”), from Proto-Germanic *walą, *walō (“desire, choice”), from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose, wish”).

Akin to Old Norse velja (“to choose”), Old High German wala (“choice”) (German wählen (“to choose”)), Old English willan (“to want”).

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wale (plural wales)

  1. choice, selection

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wale (third-person singular simple present wales, present participle walin, simple past waled, past participle waled)

  1. to choose

Swahili

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Adjective

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wale

  1. Wa class inflected form of -le.

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wale

  1. third-person plural subjunctive of -la

Ternate

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wale

  1. (intransitive) to swing ones arms

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Conjugation of wale
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st towale fowale miwale
2nd nowale niwale
3rd Masculine owale iwale, yowale†
Feminine mowale
Neuter iwale
† - archaic

References

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  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
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