fille

See also: Fille

French

Etymology

• (daughter): From Middle French fille, from Old French fille, from Latin fīlia.
• (slang, prostitute): By ellipsis of the euphemisms fille des rues (“girl of the streets”), fille de joie (“girl of joy”), fille publique (“public girl”), and others like them that signify "prostitute".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fij/

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Noun

fille f (plural filles)

1. girl

   Coordinate term: garçon

   Toutes les filles n'aiment pas jouer avec des poupées. ― Not all girls like playing with dolls.

2. daughter

   Coordinate term: fils

   Je vous présente mes fils, Gérard-Marcel et Pierre-Vincent, et mes filles, Marie-Léonore et Jacqueline-Hélène.

   May I introduce you to my sons, Gérard-Marcel and Pierre-Vincent, and my daughters, Marie-Léonore and Jacqueline-Hélène.

3. (slang) prostitute, wench

   Synonym: fille des rues

   Il buvait et courait les filles avant qu'il ne contracte la cirrhose et la blennorragie. ― He drank and consorted with hookers before contracting cirrhosis and gonorrhea.

   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     Elle s'engouffrait dans les ruelles sombres, et elle arrivait tout en sueur vers le bas de la rue Nationale, près de la fontaine qui est là. C'est le quartier du théâtre, des estaminets et des filles.

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Derived terms

• chum de fille
• classe fille
• coureur des filles
• courir les filles
• fille de comptoir
• fille de cuisine
• fille de joie
• fille de laiterie
• fille de pute
• fille de salle
• fille de trottoir
• fille des rues
• fille du port
• fille manquée
• fille mère
• fille publique
• fille soumise
• fille unique
• Filles du Roi
• fillette
• jeune fille
• telle mère, telle fille
• vieille fille

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: fi
• Louisiana Creole: fiy

Further reading

• “fille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Galician

Verb

fille

1. inflection of fillar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Irish

Verb

fille

1. present subjunctive analytic of fill

Mutation

Mutated forms of fille

radical	lenition	eclipsis
fille	fhille	bhfille

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

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English fyll, fyllu, from Proto-West Germanic *fullī, from Proto-Germanic *fullį̄. For forms with /u/, see fulle.

Alternative forms

• fell, felle, fil, fill, fyll, fylle

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛl(ə)/, /ˈfil(ə)/

Noun

fille (uncountable)

1. A sufficient amount; the state of satiation.
2. A desired amount; the state of satisfaction.
3. Profusion, surfeit; a state of plenty.

Descendants

• English: fill
• Yola: vill

References

• “fille, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Old English fille, an apheretic form of ċerfille.

Alternative forms

• ville

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfil(ə)/

Noun

fille (plural filles)

1. Chervil (Anthriscus cerefolium)
2. Something of little value.

References

• “fille, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

Verb

fille

1. alternative form of fillen

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French fille, from Latin fīlia.

Noun

fille f (plural filles)

1. daughter (female child)
2. girl

Descendants

• French: fille
  • Haitian Creole: fi
  • Louisiana Creole: fiy

Norman

Alternative forms

• fil'ye (Jersey)

Etymology

From Old French fille, from Latin fīlia.

Noun

fille f (plural filles)

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) daughter

   Coordinate term: fils

2. (Jersey, Guernsey) girl
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[2], page 540:

     A quànd les filles sufflent le guiablle s'éhuque.

     When girls whistle the devil laughs outright.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse filla (“skinn”).

Noun

fille f or m (definite singular filla or fillen, indefinite plural filler, definite plural fillene)

1. a rag

Derived terms

• filledukke

References

• “fille” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “fille_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse filla (“skin”), compare Dutch vel.

Noun

fille f (definite singular filla, indefinite plural filler, definite plural fillene)

1. a rag

Synonyms

• lærv (dialectal)

Derived terms

• i filler
• så fillene ryk

References

• “fille” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin fīlia(m).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ʎə/

Noun

fille oblique singular, f (oblique plural filles, nominative singular fille, nominative plural filles)

1. daughter (female child)
2. girl

Related terms

• fil

Descendants

• Middle French: fille
  • French: fille
    • Haitian Creole: fi
    • Louisiana Creole: fiy
• Norman: fille, fil'ye
• Walloon: feye

Pennsylvania German

Etymology 1

Compare German füllen, Dutch vullen, English fill.

Verb

fille

1. to fill
2. to farce

Etymology 2

Verb

fille

1. to foal

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪlə/
• Hyphenation: fil‧le

Verb

fille

1. (transitive) to skin
2. (transitive) to deceive

Conjugation

Conjugation of fille (weak type 1)

grúundfoarme		fille
infinitive		tou fillen
		present	past
singular	iek	fille	filde
	du	filst	fildest
	hie/ju/dät	filt	filde
plural		fille	filden
		imperative
singular		fil
plural		fillet
		present	past
participle		fillend	fild
auxiliary verb		—	häbe

References

• Marron C. Fort (2015), “fille”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN