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A beer or beerlike drink produced by so-called warm fermentation and unpressurized.
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A beer or beerlike drink produced by so-called warm fermentation and unpressurized.
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vieilliA beer or beerlike drink made without hops.
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obsolèteA rural festival where ale is drunk.
Étymologie
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂elut-der. Proto-Germanic *alu Proto-West Germanic *alu Old English ealu Middle English ale English ale 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 (“comfrey”), alūta (“tawed leather”), Ancient Greek ἀλύδοιμος (alúdoimos, “bitter”).
Formes
- pluriel
- ales
ale · A beer or beerlike drink produced by so-called warm fermentation and unpressurized.
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