ale

Pronunciation: /eɪl/

The English word “ale” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

A beer or beerlike drink produced by so-called warm fermentation and unpressurized.
A beer or beerlike drink made without hops.
A rural festival where ale is drunk.

Etymology

From Middle English ale, from Old English ealu, ealo, from Proto-West Germanic *alu, from Proto-Germanic *alu (compare Dutch aal, Icelandic and Swedish öl (“beer”), Danish, Faroese, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk øl (“beer”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elut- (“beer”), or *h₂elu- (“bitter”). Compare Russian ол (ol), Lithuanian alùs, Armenian օղի (ōġi); compare also Latin alum…

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