"ake" definition, meaning, and origin

Adverb

forever
- The answer given was : — " Friends, this is the reply of the Maori : we shall fight on ake, ake, ake, for ever, for ever, for ever." - 1882, B. Francis, Isles of the Pacific: Or, Sketches from the South Seas, page 78:
- That was the time when the great wish grew in the heart of Maui, the wish to conquer his powerful enemy Hine-nui-te-po, that Night might die and man may live for ever: ake, ake, ake!—yes, it was his great wish. - 1907,...
- "Ake, ake, ake," said Von Tempsky, weary over the camp-fire. "Has there been anything like it since the days of the old Greeks? What madness makes you kill such men when you may want them to fight for you some day?" -...

Etymology tree Māori akebor. English ake Borrowed from Māori ake.

Obsolete spelling of ache.
- The ake of months of a growing firenlust became a rising queem til at last there was the burst of loosing that almost made his knees buckle. - 2015, LT Wolf, The World King (fiction), →ISBN:

From Middle English aken, from Old English acan (“to ache”), from Proto-West Germanic *akan, from Proto-Germanic *akaną (“to ache”). More at ache.

The groove made in a stone forming part of a killock.
- Returning with the timber portions of his anchor, to the stone, he would assemble all together […] The ake would be the slightly hollowed part of the stone that fitted closely to the sides […] - 1913, Leonard George...

Obsolete spelling of ache.
- ... for let our finger ake, / And it endues our other heathfull members — Othello (Quarto 1), Shakespeare, 1622
- And that thing made of ſound and ſhovv / VVhich mortals have miſnamed A Beau, / (But in the language of the ſky / Is call'd a tvvolegg'd butterfly) / VVill make your very heartſtrings ake / VVith loud and everlaſting...
- instead he went with the rogues to supper in an arbour, though it made his heart "ake" to listen to their mad talk. - 1909, Henry C. Shelley, Inns and Taverns of Old London, text edition, The Gutenberg Project,...