dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/aye_MW.json
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{
"aye":{
"antonyms":[
"all right",
"alright",
"exactly",
"OK",
"okay",
"okeydoke",
"okeydokey",
"yea",
"yeah",
"yep",
"yes",
"yo"
],
"definitions":{
": always , continually , ever":[
"love that will aye endure",
"\u2014 W. S. Gilbert"
],
": an affirmative vote or voter":[
"the ayes have it"
],
": yes":[
"aye , aye , sir"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"13th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb",
"1576, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb",
"1589, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English ay, borrowed from Old Norse ei, ey, \u00e6 \"ever, forever,\" going back to Germanic *aiwim or *aiwom (whence also Old English \u0101 \"always, ever, eternally,\" Old Saxon io, eo \"ever, at any time, always,\" Old High German io, eo \"on every occasion, always,\" Gothic ni \u2026 aiw \"never\"), accusative forms, used adverbially, of *aiwis or *aiwos \"time, eternity\" (whence Old Frisian \u0113we \"eternity,\" Old Saxon and Old High German \u0113wa, Middle Dutch \u0113we, ee \"age, eternity\"), going back to Indo-European *h 2 ei\u032f-u\u032fo- \"eternity, age,\" whence also Latin aevus, aevum \"time as the medium in which events occur, age, lifetime\"; also, from a stem h 2 ei\u032f-u\u032f-on-, Greek ai\u1e53n \"lifetime, long period of time, age\"; and from a u-stem with ablaut and shifting stress *h 2 \u00f3i\u032f-u-, *h 2 i\u032f-\u00e9u\u032f-s, Sanskrit \u0101\u0301yu\u1e25 \"vital force,\" Avestan \u0101iiu (nominative), yao\u0161 (genitive) \"lifetime\"":"Adverb",
"noun derivative of aye entry 1":"Noun",
"of uncertain origin":"Adverb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u012b",
"\u02c8\u0101"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"always",
"consistently",
"constantly",
"continually",
"ever",
"forever",
"incessantly",
"invariably",
"night and day",
"perpetually",
"unfailingly"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-231213",
"type":[
"adverb",
"noun"
]
}
}