ail

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An ailment; trouble; illness. obsolete
  2. The awn of barley or other types of corn. West-Country
动词 v.
  1. To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions.) transitive
    — Have some chicken soup. It's good for what ails you.
  2. To be ill; to suffer; to be troubled. intransitive
    — When he ails ever so little […] he is so peevish.
形容词 adj.
  1. Painful; troublesome. obsolete

词形变化

ails present,singular,third-person ailing participle,present ailed participle,past ailed past ails plural ailer comparative more ail comparative ailest superlative most ail superlative ails plural ile alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
ailsome

词源

词源 1
Inherited from Middle English eilen, from Old English eġlan, eġlian (“to trouble, afflict”), from Proto-West Germanic *aglijan, from Proto-Germanic *aglijaną (“to trouble, vex”), cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌲𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (agljan, “to distress”).
词源 2
Inherited from Middle English eyle, eile, from Old English eġle (“hideous, loathsome, hateful, horrid, troublesome, grievous, painful”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌲𐌻𐌿𐍃 (aglus, “hard, difficult”).
词源 3
Inherited from Middle English eile, eyle, eiȝle, from Old English eġl (“an ail; awn; beard of barley; mote”), from Proto-Germanic *agilō (“awn”), related to *ahaz (“ear (of grain)”). Cognate with German Achel, Egel, Ägel.
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