ache

Signification (English)

Verb

1. To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed.
2. To cause someone or something to suffer pain.

Noun

Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.

Noun

Parsley.

Noun

Rare spelling of aitch.

Concepts

douleur

faire mal

peine

mal

courbature

avoir mal

aspirer

soupirer

languir

dommage

malade

🤢

mourir

💀

désirer

pin

souci

souffrance

aspirer à

tristesse

algie

chagrin

brûler de

être douloureux

Synonyms

pain

hurt

soreness

sore

throb

yearn

distress

smart

suffer

painful

be painful

illness

be sore

aching

feel pain

long for

sickness

ill

🤢

suffering

long

discomfort

pine

grief

agony

languish

be in pain

misery

undergo

vexation

wound

mal

sick

🤢

yen

💴

twinge

burn

be pained

aspire

have pain

ache for

hanker

feel painful

sting

intimidate

itch

lament

longing

make

miserable

miss

need

pang

penalty

pound

💷

press

punishment

rankle

reduce

regret

retribution

sandbag

sea

🌊

shatter

sigh

smarting

smash

sorrow

sour

stab

stiffness

tart

throbbing

tingle

torment

torture

trouble

unpleasantness

want

woe

working

wreck

yearning

be distressed

be hurt

dull pain

get irritated

in pain

pain sensation

suffer from

suffer pain

feel a pain

become painful

rheumatic pain

have pains and aches

stound

Keble

painful sensation

desiderium

acid

affliction

agonize

ail

ailment

anxiety

aspiration

aspire to

attempt

bitter

boss

break

browbeat

clamp

🗜️

coerce

compel

connive

disease

distressed

dragoon

drive

effort

endeavour

enforce

entreat

exertion

expect

expectation

feel for

force

grieved

hale

hankering

hope for

hunger

hurting

impel

inconvenience

inflame

inflammation

injury

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈeɪk/

Étymologie (English)

Inherited from moyen anglais: aken

Inherited from ancien anglais: acan

Cognate with saterlandais: eeke

Cognate with bas-allemand: aken

Cognate with frison septentrional: akelig

Cognate with frison occidental: aaklik

Cognate with néerlandais: akelig

In summary

From Middle English aken (verb), and ache (noun), from Old English acan (verb) (from Proto-West Germanic *akan, from Proto-Germanic *akaną (“to be bad, be evil”)) and æċe (noun) (from Proto-West Germanic *aki, from Proto-Germanic *akiz), both from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eg- (“sin, crime”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian eeke, ääke (“to ache, fester”), Low German aken, achen, äken (“to hurt, ache”), German Low German Eek (“inflammation”), North Frisian akelig, æklig (“terrible, miserable, sharp, intense”), West Frisian aaklik (“nasty, horrible, dismal, dreary”), Dutch akelig (“nasty, horrible”).
The verb was originally strong, conjugating for tense like take (e.g. I ake, I oke, I have aken), but gradually became weak during Middle English; the noun was originally pronounced as /eɪt͡ʃ/ as spelled (compare breach, from break). Historically the verb was spelled ake, and the noun ache (even after the form /eɪk/ started to become common for the noun; compare again break which is now also a noun). The verb came to be spelled like the noun when lexicographer Samuel Johnson mistakenly assumed that it derived from Ancient Greek ἄχος (ákhos, “pain”) due to the similarity in form and meaning of the two words.