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English

Alternative forms

  • al (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English all, from Old English eall, from Proto-West Germanic *all, from Proto-Germanic *allaz, of uncertain origin but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“beyond, other”). Cognate with West Frisian al (“all”), Dutch al (“all”), Scots a' (“all”), German all (“all”), Swedish all (“all”), Norwegian all (“all”), Icelandic allur (“all”), Welsh holl (“all”), Irish uile (“all”), Lithuanian aliái (“all, each, every”).

The dialectal sense “all gone” is a calque of German alle. The use in who all, where all etc. also has equivalents in German (see alles).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ôl IPA(key): /ɔːl/, [oːɫ]
  • (US)
    • (General American) IPA(key): /ɔl/, [ɔɫ]
    • (cot–caught merger, Inland Northern American) IPA(key): /ɑl/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːl
  • Homophones: awl, I'll (some dialects)

Determiner

all

  1. Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or uncountable).
  2. Throughout the whole of (a stated period of time; generally used with units of a day or longer).
    (= through the whole of the day and the whole of the night.)
    (= from the beginning of the year until now.)
  3. Only; alone; nothing but.
  4. (obsolete) Any.

Translations

Pronoun

all

  1. Everything.
  2. Everyone.
  3. The only thing(s).
    All that was left was a small pile of ash.
  5. (chiefly Southern US, South Midland US, Midland US, Scotland, Northern Ireland, India) Used after who, what, where, how and similar words, either without changing their meaning, or indicating that one expects that they cover more than one element, e.g. that "Who all attended?" is more than one person. (Some dialects only allow this to follow some words and not others.)
    • 1904 October 10, Shea v. Nilima, [US] Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in 1905, Reports Containing the Cases Determined in All the Circuits from the Organization of the Courts, page 266:
      Q. Now, then, when you started to go to stake the claims, who all went along?
      A. I and Johan Peter Johansen, Otto Greiner, and Thorulf Kjelsberg.

Translations

Adverb

all (not comparable)

  1. Wholly; entirely; completely; totally.
    She was sitting all alone. It suddenly went all quiet.
  2. Apiece; each.
    The score was 30 all when the rain delay started.
  3. (degree) So much.
    Don't want to go? All the better since I lost the tickets.
  4. (obsolete, poetic) Even; just.
  5. A quotative particle, compare like.
    She was all, “Whatever.”

Synonyms

  • completely

Translations

Noun

all (countable and uncountable, plural alls)

  1. (with a possessive pronoun) Everything that one is capable of.
  2. (countable) The totality of one's possessions.
    • Folio Society 1973, pp. 37-8:

Translations

Conjunction

all

  1. (obsolete) Although.

Derived terms

Adjective

all

  1. (Pennsylvania, dialect) All gone; dead.

Derived terms

  • allhood
  • allness

Related terms

See also


References

Anagrams

  • LAL, Lal, Lal.

Albanian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish آل (al).

Adjective

all (feminine alle)

  1. of glowing, reddish color

References

Further reading

  • Newmark, L. (1999) “all”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎[4]
  • “all”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006

Breton

Etymology

See arall (“other”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈalː/, IPA(key): /ˈɛl/

Adjective

all

  1. other

Derived terms

  • gwezhall

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin allium. Compare Occitan alh, French ail, Spanish ajo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈaʎ]
  • Rhymes: -aʎ

Noun

all m (plural alls)

  1. garlic
  2. garlic clove

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “all” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “all”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “all” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “all” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *alla.

Postposition

all

  1. under, below (Governs the genitive)

Derived terms

  • all-
  • alla
  • alt

German

Etymology

From Middle High German al, from Old High German al, from Proto-West Germanic *all, from Proto-Germanic *allaz. Cognate with English all.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /al/
  • Rhymes: -al

Determiner

all

  1. all
    • 1843, Karl Ludwig Kannegießer (translation from Italian into German), Die göttliche Komödie des Dante Alighieri, 4th edition, 1st part, Leipzig, p. 84:
  2. every (in time intervals, with plural noun)

Usage notes

  • The bare form all is used with articles and pronouns, which it precedes (as in English). For instance: all die Sachen (“all the things”); all dies[es] Gerede (“all this chitchat”); all[e] meine Freunde (“all my friends”) (more common with the e). Colloquial German often uses the adjective ganz instead: die ganzen Sachen; dies[es] ganze Gerede; meine ganzen Freunde.
  • If all is followed by an adjective, the adjective is declined weakly: alle guten Sachen (“all good things”), alles Gute (“all the best”)

Declension

Derived terms

  • allzu
  • alle, alles (indefinite pronouns)
  • alle (adverb)
  • aller Enden
  • allerhand
  • allerorten
  • allerorts
  • allerseit
  • allerseits
  • allerwege
  • allerwegen
  • allerwegs
  • allerweil
  • Allmacht
  • allseits

Further reading

  • “all” in Duden online
  • “all” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Gothic

Romanization

all

  1. Romanization of 𐌰𐌻𐌻

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German al.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɑl]
  • Rhymes: -ɑl

Pronoun

all

  1. (with uncountable or plural nouns) all
  2. (with countable singular nouns) every; each

Usage notes

  • The word is usually uninflected, except for the dative plural, which becomes allen.

Synonyms

  • (every, each): jidder, jiddwer

Derived terms

  • alles

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • al

Etymology

From Old English eall, from Proto-West Germanic *all, from Proto-Germanic *allaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /al/

Adverb

all

  1. all (entirely, completely)

Determiner

all

  1. all, every

Derived terms

  • alles

Descendants

  • English: all
  • Geordie English: a'
  • Scots: a', a, aw; aa, aal
  • Yola: aul, aal, all, al

References

  • “al, adv. & conj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse allr.

Determiner

all (neuter singular alt, plural alle)

  1. all

Derived terms

  • allehelgensdag
  • allmektig
  • allvitende

References

  • “all” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • adl’u, add’e, all’e, aill, aillj (dialectal)

Etymology

From Old Norse allr, from Proto-Germanic *allaz (“all”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“all”). Cognate with Faroese and Icelandic allur, Swedish all and Danish al. Akin to English all.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /alː/
  • IPA(key): /aʎː/ (dialectal palatalization, Trøndelag and Northern Norway)
  • IPA(key): /adl/ (dialectal)

Adjective

all m or f (neuter alt, plural alle)

  1. all
  2. (in the plural) everybody
  3. over, at an end, finished
    Sumaren er all. ― The summer is at an end.
  4. tired, exhausted, worn out; weak
    Skorne er alle ― The shoes are worn out.
  5. dead
    Han er mest all. ― He’s almost dead.

Declension

Derived terms

  • allehelgensdag
  • allmektig
  • allvitande

References

  • “all” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑll/, [ɑɫ]

Adjective

all (Anglian)

  1. Alternative form of eall

Declension

Adverb

all (Anglian)

  1. Alternative form of eall

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German al. Compare German all, Dutch al, English all.

Adjective

all

  1. all

Related terms

  • alliebber

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish alder, from Old Norse allr, from Proto-Germanic *allaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-.

Pronunciation

Determiner

all (neuter allt, masculine alle, plural alla)

  1. all

Usage notes

All (with inflections) is used with mass nouns. The corresponding for nouns with ordinary plural is alla.

A masculine-looking form (alle) is virtually only retained in the fixed expressions alle man and allesamman (“everyone”).

See also

  • varje
  • allihop

References

  • all in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • all in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • all in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • (North Wales) IPA(key): /aɬ/
  • (South Wales) IPA(key): /a(ː)ɬ/

Verb

all

  1. Soft mutation of gall.

Mutation

Yola

Adverb

all

  1. Alternative form of aul

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 84

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