all – English noun declension

English noun forms of all

Noun: all
Singularall
Pluralalls

Sample Sentences

  • She gave her all, and collapsed at the finish line.
  • she therefore ordered Jenny to pack up her alls and begone, for that she was determined she should not sleep that night within her walls. […] I packed up my little all as well as I could, and went off.
  • I will die fighting for my people, because my people are all.
  • All are one and one is all. [1992, Bruce Coville, My Teacher Flunked the Planet:]

Etymology

1. 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- (“all”).
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Scots a, a', aa, aal, aw (“all”), Yola aal, al, all, aul (“all”), North Frisian aal, aale, ale, ali, åle (“all”), Saterland Frisian al (“already”), aal (“all”), West Frisian alle (“all”), Dutch al (“all”), German and Luxembourgish all (“all”), Vilamovian oły, ołły (“all”), Yiddish אַלע (ale, “all”), Danish al (“all”), Faroese and Icelandic allur (“all”), Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish all (“all”), Norwegian Nynorsk aillj, all (“all”), Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌻𐍃 (alls, “all”); also Breton and Welsh holl (“all”), Cornish oll (“all”), Irish alig, eile, uile, uileag, uilig (“all”), Manx ooilley (“all”), Scottish Gaelic uile, uileag (“all”), Lithuanian aliái (“every”), Armenian ողջ (oġǰ, “entire, whole”).
4. 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). See: Middle English Nouns 'all', Danish Nouns 'al'.

Verbs referencing "all"

French Nouns allemand.