Noun: bale
Sample Sentences
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That other ſwayne, like aſhes deadly pale,
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Lay in the lap of death, rewing his wretched bale. [1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 441:]
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Rome, and her Rats, are at the point of battell,
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The one ſide muſt haue baile. [c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 2, column 2:]
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Ffor if you wold comfort me with a kisse,
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Then were I brought ffrom bale to blisse,
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Noe longer here wold I lye. [1885, “Sir Cawline”, in Francis James Child, editor, The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 2:]
Nouns inflected like bale
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English bale (“evil”), from Old English bealu, from Proto-West Germanic *balu, from Proto-Germanic *balwą.
2. Cognate with Low German bal- (“bad, ill”), Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌻𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (balweins, “torture”), Old High German balo (“destruction”), Old Norse bǫl (“disaster”). See: Middle English Nouns '
bale', Old English Nouns '
bealu', Gothic Nouns '
𐌱𐌰𐌻𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃', Old Norse Nouns '
bǫl'.
Verbs referencing "bale"
German Nouns
Ballen, Latin Nouns
fulica, Latin Nouns
blattea, Old Norse Nouns
bǫl.