ayとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /aɪ/
• 韻: -aɪ
• 異形同音異義語: aye, eye, I

間投詞

ay

1. Ah! alas! Expressing anger, alarm, frustration, pain, etc.

   Alternative forms: aie, aye

   • 1559, Lucius, Anneus, Seneca, translated by Iasper Heywood, “The Preface to the Tragedye”, in The Sixt Tragedie of the Most Graue and Prudent Author Lucius, Anneus, Seneca, Entituled Troas, […], London: […] Richard Tottyll, →OCLC, signature [A5], verso:

     And ſuch as yet, coulde neuer weapon wꝛeſt, / But on the lappe are woont to dandled be, / Ne yet foꝛgotten had the mothers bꝛeſt, / How greekes them ſlew, alas here ſhall ye ſe, / To make repoꝛte therof, ay woe is me, / My ſong is miſchiefe, murder miſerye.

2. (now chiefly Northern England and Scotland) Expressing earnestness, surprise, wonder, etc.
   • 1863, Mrs. Toogood, Specimens of the Yorkshire Dialect; quoted in “Ay (ēⁱ), int.”, in James A[ugustus] H[enry] Murray [et al.], editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes I (A–B), London: Clarendon Press, 1884–1928, →OCLC, page 601, column 2:

     Ay my word! I am glad to see you.

   • 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 137:

     Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.

   • 1888 December 9, Æthelbert [Binns], “Thoughts in Verse. On Finding a Buttercup.”, in The Keighley News, Keighley, West Yorkshire, published 16 March 1889, →OCLC, page 7, column 7:

     Ay! bonny little buttercup, what are ta dewin’ heear, / Hoddin’ up thi tiny heead, this raw, cowd time o’ t’year?

   • 1917 December 29, “Mary Maxwell; or, The Shadow on the Manse”, in The People’s Journal, Dundee, →OCLC, page 6, column 3:

     “Ay, I’m glad he’s going to be mairrit,” he said a few minutes later as he sat in the manse kitchen.

   • 1930 January 4, Northern Weekly Gazette, Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, →OCLC, page 21, column 3:

     AY BY GUM. They’ve summat to put up wi’ hez t’ tram conductors, especially wheer t’ swells lives.

   • 2011, Cynthia B. Huntington, “Full Circle”, in Through Her Eyes: An Infidel’s Perspective […], [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 88:

     Ay, lass, you’ve ruined your chances now. When you left for New York to become a Pan Am stewardess we thought you’d got it made.

3. Used in ay, ay.

派生語

参考

語源 2

See aye.

発音

• IPA: /aɪ/
• 韻: -aɪ
• 異形同音異義語: aye, eye, I

間投詞

ay

1. (Mid-Ulster, others) Alternative spelling of aye (“yes”).
   • 1883, Howard Pyle, “Robin Hood Turns Butcher”, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC, part second, page 48:

     "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? […]"

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “The Spirit of Life”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 284:

     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 (plural ays)

1. Alternative spelling of aye (“yes”).

   counting the ays and the noes in a vote

語源 3

From 中期英語 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: /ˈeɪ/
• 韻: -eɪ
• 異形同音異義語: A, a, eh

副詞

ay (not comparable)

1. (archaic, poetic or Northern England or Scotland) 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

派生語

• ay-green
• forever and ay

語源 4

名詞

ay (plural ays)

1. Alternative form of a: the name of the Latin script letter A/a.
   • 2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170:

     It said, in a whispering, buzzing voice, "Gee-you-ess-ess-ay-dash-em-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-em-eye-en-gee-oh-dash-pee-eye-pee-dash-pee-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-pee-eye-en-gee-oh."

   • 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".

派生した語

• → Rohingya: ee
• → Tagalog: ey

語源 5

発音

• IPA: /eɪ/, (New Zealand) [æe̯]
• 韻: -eɪ
• 異形同音異義語: 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:

     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.

別の表記

• aye

語源 6

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

発音

• IPA: /eɪ/
• 韻: -eɪ
• 異形同音異義語: A, a, eh

間投詞

ay

1. All right (inter); hooray (inter); cool (inter).

参照

Further reading

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

アナグラム

• Ya, YA, ya

別の表記

• ai, ey

発音

• IPA: /æi̯/

副詞

ay

1. always, constantly, unceasingly; eternally, forever

派生した語

• English: aye
• Yola: aye

参照

• “ai, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 2

名詞

ay

1. alternative form of ey (“egg”)

派生語

• amscray
• itshay
• ixnay

アナグラム

• Ya, YA, ya