Where does “Ale” come from?
Ale (Finnish) comes from English ale, from Italian alé, from French allez, from French aller, from Latin īre, from Proto-Italic eō, from Proto-Italic ejō, from Proto-Indo-European h₁éyti — to go.
Ale (Finnish): sale
Definitions
- sale
Ancestry of “Ale”, step by step
Ale traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English ale
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ale | A beer made without hops; A beer produced by... |
| 2 | Italian | alé | let's go!, come on! |
| 3 | French | allez | second-person plural present indicative of aller;... |
| 4 | French | aller | to go |
| 5 | Latin | īre | — |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | eō | I go |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | ejō | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁éyti | to go, to be going |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁ey- | to go |
via Finnish alennusmyynti
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | alennusmyynti | sale |
| 2 | Finnish | alennus | discount; degradation; abasement |
| 3 | Finnish | alentaa | To lower, downgrade, decrease, reduce, diminish;... |
| 4 | Finnish | aleta | To descend, come/go down, move downwards;... |
| 5 | Finnish | ala- | under-, sub-, lower, nether; inferior |
| 6 | Proto-Finnic | ala | lower; under |
| 7 | Proto-Uralic | ëla | below |