• IPA: /eɪ/
• (sometimes proscribed) IPA: /aɪ/

aye (not comparable)

1. (archaic) ever, always
   • 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene i], [https://books.google.com/books?id=uNtBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PACaliban}}, / For aye thy foot-licker. page Caliban}}, / For aye thy foot-licker.]:

     {...}}Do that good miſcheefe, which may make this Iſland / Thine owne for euer, and I thy ''{{w

   • 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner":

     The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, / And southward aye we fled.

   • 1863, Translation by Catherine Winkworth:

     Let the Amen sound from His people again; Gladly for aye we adore Him. (Praise to the Lord, the Almighty)

• IPA: /aɪ/

1. yes; yea; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative answer to a question.

• yes
• yea

• nay
• no

• French: oui
• German: jawohl
• Russian: есть
• Spanish: sí, sé

aye (plural ayes)

1. An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative.

   "To call for the ayes and nays;" "The ayes have it."

• yes

• Spanish: sí

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