A small aisle or narrow passage, especially in a church or building.
Diminutive form of 'aisle' (from Old French 'aisle', originally from Latin 'ala' meaning wing), with the diminutive suffix '-et' indicating something small.
The suffix '-et' creating 'aylet' from 'aisle' shows how English borrowed the diminutive-making pattern from French—the same way 'pig' becomes 'piglet'—giving us a quaint architectural term for tight cathedral spaces.
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