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[edit] Etymology
Old English ǣl, from Germanic *ēla-. Cognate with Dutch aal, German Aal, Swedish ål.
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eel (plural eels)
- Any fish of the order Anguilliformes which are elongated and resemble snakes. There are freshwater and marine species.
- The European eel, Anguilla anguilla.
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any fish of the order Anguilliformes
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: օձաձուկ hy(hy) (òjajuk)
- Basque: please add this translation if you can
- Bengali: please add this translation if you can
- Bosnian: jegulja bs(bs) f.
- Bulgarian: змиорка bg(bg) f. (zmiorka)
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- CJKV Characters: 鰻, 鳗
- Catalan: anguila ca(ca) f.
- Cayuga: gǫ́ːdeh
- Ch'orti': utuʼ čay
- Cherokee: ᏢᏕᎦ (tlvdega)
- Chinese: 鳗鱼 (man4yu2), 鰻
- Creek: acv´ppv
- Croatian: jegulja hr(hr) f.
- Danish: ål c., ålefisk c.
- Dutch: paling nl(nl) m., aal nl(nl) m. (before it can spawn), palingachtigen nl(nl) pl.
- Esperanto: angilo eo(eo)
- Estonian: angerjas, angerjalised
- Finnish: ankerias fi(fi), ankeriaskala fi(fi)
- French: anguille fr(fr) f.
- Georgian: გველთევზა (gvelt'evza), გველთევზასნაირნი (gvelt'evzasnairni) pl.
- German: Aal de(de) m., Aalartige de(de) pl.
- Greek:
- Ancient: εγχέλυς (enkhélis) f.
- Modern: χέλι el(el) (kheli) n.
- Hawaiian: please add this translation if you can
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- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: angolna hu(hu)
- Icelandic: áll is(is) m.
- Ido: anguilo
- Indonesian: belut id(id)
- Irish: eascann ga(ga) f.
- Italian: anguilla it(it) m.
- Japanese: ウナギ, 鰻 (unagi)
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Klamath-Modoc: ġawi
- Korean: 장어 (jang-eo)
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Infinitive
to eel
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Third person singular
eels
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Simple past
eeled
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Past participle
eeled
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Present participle
eeling
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to eel (third-person singular simple present eels, present participle eeling, simple past and past participle eeled)
- To fish for eels
- To move with a sinuous motion like that of an eel
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