Ail vs Ait - What's the difference?
ail | ait |
(obsolete) Painful; troublesome.
To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions.)
* Bible, Genesis xxi. 17
* 2011 , "Connubial bliss in America", The Economist :
To be ill; to suffer; to be troubled.
* Richardson
An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England.
* R. Hodges (1649)
* 1833 , , Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life trans. John Oxenford, book 9,
* 1853 , , Bleak House , ch. 1,
(Scotland) An oat.
As nouns the difference between ail and ait
is that ail is an ailment; trouble; illness while ait is an island in a river, especially the River Thames in England.As an adjective ail
is painful; troublesome.As a verb ail
is to cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions..ail
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Adjective
(en-adj)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- Have some chicken soup. It's good for what ails you.
- What aileth thee, Hagar?
- Not content with having in 1996 put a Defence of Marriage Act (DOMA) on the statue book, Congress has now begun to hold hearings on a Respect for Marriage Act. Defended, respected: what could possibly ail marriage in America?
- When he ails ever so little he is so peevish.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "ail")Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Anagrams
* * ----ait
English
Noun
(wikipedia ait) (en noun)- The ait where the osiers grew.
- Striking richness of vegetation which follows in the windings of the Rhine, marks its banks, islands, and aits .
- Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows.
- (Burns)