English

Proper noun

Ake

1. A Nigerian Plateau language language.

Synonyms

• Aike

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eɪk/

Verb

ake ‎(third-person singular simple present akes, present participle aking, simple past and past participle aked)

1. Archaic spelling of ache.
   • ... for let our finger ake, / And it endues our other heathfull members — Othello (Quarto 1), Shakespeare, 1622
   • 1909, Henry C. Shelley, Inns and Taverns of Old London, text edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2004:

     instead he went with the rogues to supper in an arbour, though it made his heart "ake" to listen to their mad talk.

   • 2015, LT Wolf, The World King (fiction), ISBN 978-1-312-37454-6:

     The ake of months of a growing firenlust became a rising queem til at last there was the burst of loosing that almost made his knees buckle.

Etymology 2

Borrowing from Maori.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑːˈkeɪ/

Adverb

ake ‎(not comparable)

1. (New Zealand) forever

Anagrams

• kea

Bantik

Noun

ake

1. water

References

• ABVD

Galela

Noun

ake

1. water

References

• Donald A. Burquest, ‎Wyn D. Laidig, Descriptive studies in languages of Maluku, volume 2 (1995), page 6:

  Tabaru Galela

  [ˈakere] 'water' [ˈake] 'water'

• Robinson Ipol, Yosafat Etha, Deidre Shelden, Galela conversations (1989): ake

Gothic

Romanization

akē

1. Romanization of 𐌰𐌺𐌴

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qate, from Proto-Oceanic *qate, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Austronesian *qaCay.

Noun

ake

1. (anatomy) liver (organ of the body)

Derived terms

• akemāmā

Verb

ake

1. to yearn for, desire

Japanese

Romanization

ake

1. rōmaji reading of あけ

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English ac.

Conjunction

ake

1. Alternative form of ac
   • approx. 1225, Hali Meidenhad (Holy Maidenhood)

     Not of low on earth, ake of the high in heaven.

   • approx. 1225, Homilies in Lambeth

     Those men.. have the name of Christians, ake though they are Christ's unwins (enemies).

   • approx. 1300, The Fox and the Wolf

     He was still, ne spake no-more, ake he worth athirst well sore.

   • circa 1350, Midland Prose Psalter

     Blessed be the man that.. ne set nowt in false judgement. Ake his will was in the will of our Lord.

   • circa 1390, Walter Hilton, On the Mixed Life

     This thought is good.. ake if a man may not lightly have salvation ne devotion in it, I hold it not speedful.

   • approx. 1450, South English Legendary: Temporale

     It ... rotted fast; ake that flesh and that blood rotteth never-more.

References

• The Middle English Dictionary

Ratahan

Noun

ake

1. water

Reference

• J. N. Sneddon, The Languages of Minahasa, North Celebes (1970)
• J. N. Sneddon, Proto-Sangiric & the Sangiric Languages (1984), page 61

Swahili

Adjective

-ake ‎(declinable)

1. his/her/its (third-person singular possessive adjective)
2. their (third-person plural inanimate possessive adjective)

Inflection

See also

Ternate

Noun

ake

1. water

References

• Yuiti Wada, Correspondance of Consonants in North Halmahera Languages (1980)

Tidore

Noun

ake

1. water

References

• Possessive clauses in East Nusantara, the case of Tidore, in The Expression of Possession (2009, ISBN 3110213230)
• Donald A. Burquest, Wyn D. Laidig, Descriptive studies in languages of Maluku, volume 2 (1995), page 52