AY

ayintj詞源 1/aɪ/

• 1

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

  • 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

  Expressing earnestness, surprise, wonder, etc.

  • Ay my word! I am glad to see you.
  • 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.
• 3

  Used in ay, ay.

ayadv詞源 3/ˈeɪ/

• 1

  archaicAlways; ever; continually; for an indefinite time.

  • O he that hath ay lived free, …

ayintj詞源 5/eɪ/

• 1

  New Zealand spelling of eh (question tag).

  • 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.

ayintj詞源 6/eɪ/

• 1

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

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• academic year
• aye
• a