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bille

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See also: Bille and billé

Danish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *bitulaz, *bītilaz (that which tends to bite, biter, beetle), from *bītaną; equivalent to bide +‎ -le. See also Icelandic bitil, bitul (a bite, bit), Faroese bitil (small piece, bittock).

Noun

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bille c (singular definite billen, plural indefinite biller)

  1. beetle

Inflection

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French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /bij/
  • Audio:(file)

Etymology 1

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Inherited from Middle French bille, from Old French bille (small ball), from Frankish *bikkil (ossicle, a die, talus). Cognate with Dutch bikkel (dibs, die), West Frisian bikkel (die), German Bickel (marble).

Noun

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bille f (plural billes)

  1. marble (spherical ball)
  2. (snooker, billiards) ball
  3. ball bearing
  4. (slang) dimwit
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • Italian: biglia, bilia (once more common)
    • Arabic: بِلْيَة (bilya)
    • Turkish: bilye
  • Portuguese: bilha
  • Vietnamese: bi

Etymology 2

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Inherited from Middle French bille, from Old French *bille (attested as Medieval Latin billia (tree-trunk)), from Vulgar Latin *billia, from Gaulish *bilia, from Proto-Celtic *belyom (tree), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yom (leaf). Cognate with Irish bile (tree), Latin folium (leaf, foil).

Noun

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bille f (plural billes)

  1. tree trunk (chopped down, ready for sawing)
  2. railway sleeper
  3. rolling pin
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Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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bille

  1. inflection of biller:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Scots and English bill.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bille m (genitive singular bille, nominative plural billí)

  1. bill
  2. currency note

Declension

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Declension of bille (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative bille billí
vocative a bhille a bhillí
genitive bille billí
dative bille billí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an bille na billí
genitive an bhille na mbillí
dative leis an mbille
don bhille
leis na billí

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of bille
radical lenition eclipsis
bille bhille mbille

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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Norman

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English bill.

Noun

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bille f (plural billes)

  1. (Jersey) note

Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Noun

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bille m (definite singular billen, indefinite plural biller, definite plural billene)

  1. a beetle

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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bille f (definite singular billa, indefinite plural biller, definite plural billene)

  1. a beetle

Old English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbil.le/, [ˈbiɫ.ɫe]

Noun

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bille

  1. dative singular of bil

Old French

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Frankish *bikkil.

Noun

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bille oblique singularf (oblique plural billes, nominative singular bille, nominative plural billes)

  1. stick; baton
Descendants
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Etymology 2

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From Latin bulla.

Noun

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bille oblique singularf (oblique plural billes, nominative singular bille, nominative plural billes)

  1. written decree, announcement (etc.)
Descendants
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References

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