iel

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Bouyei[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Tai *ˀjɯəᴬ (“medicine”). Cognate with Thai ยา (yaa), Northern Thai ᩀᩣ, Lao ຢາ (yā), Lü ᦊᦱ (ẏaa), Tai Dam ꪤꪱ, Shan ယႃ (yǎa), Zhuang yw.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

iel

  1. medicine; drug
  2. poison
    Synonym: duf

Verb[edit]

iel

  1. to provide medical treatment; to treat

Classical Nahuatl[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

īēl inan

  1. third-person singular possessive singular of ēlli; (it is) his, her or its liver.

Crimean Gothic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Germanic *hailiją, from *hailaz; compare Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌻𐍃 (hails).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Krause & Slocum reconstruct IPA(key): /eːl/[1]

Noun[edit]

iel

  1. life, health

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol/gotol/100#grammar_718

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Contracted from late Middle Dutch idel, which survives uncontracted as ijdel. An alternative contracted form led to ijl.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /il/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: iel
  • Rhymes: -il

Adjective[edit]

iel (comparative ieler, superlative ielst)

  1. thin, slender

Inflection[edit]

Inflection of iel
uninflected iel
inflected iele
comparative ieler
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial iel ieler het ielst
het ielste
indefinite m./f. sing. iele ielere ielste
n. sing. iel ieler ielste
plural iele ielere ielste
definite iele ielere ielste
partitive iels ielers —

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Esperanto[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From i- (indeterminate correlative prefix) +‎ -el (correlative suffix of manner or degree).

Pronunciation[edit]

Adverb[edit]

iel

  1. somehow, in some way

Derived terms[edit]

French[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Blend of il +‎ elle.

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

iel n (third-person singular, plural iels, accusative lea, dative lui, emphatic ellui, possessive determiner son)

  1. (gender-neutral, neologism) they (singular). A gender-neutral singular third-person subject personal pronoun, where the gender of the person referenced is unknown, or if they identify as non-binary.
    • 2014, Carina Rozenfeld, La Symphonie des abysses, Robert Laffont, book 1:
      […] ; les jours où iels n’avaient pas l’occasion de parler un peu, juste tous les deux, iel se sentait vide.
      […]; on days when they didn't have the opportunity to talk a little, just the two of them, they felt empty.
    • 2016 March 4, Olivia B. Smith, Witch Hunt, Partie 1 : Le Legacy d’Olivia‎[1]:
      Ainsi démarra la journée d’Emil. Iel suivait bien évidement les conseils de sa mère, continuant à affirmer qu’iel était un garçon, ce qui jusque là n’avait jamais été démenti.
      That's how Emil's day started. They naturally followed the advice of their mother and continued to say that they were a boy, which had never been contested until that point.
    • 2017, Cindy Van Wilder, chapter 19, in Les Outrepasseurs, volume 4 Férénusia, Gulf stream éditeur:
      Pour les Ferreux.
      Pour Ferenusia, découvert en même temps qu’Antoinette, quand iel avait débarqué à Paris un an auparavant.
      Pour iel-mêmes, aussi.
      For the Ferrous.
      For Ferenusia, discovered at the same time as Antoinette, when they had arrived in Paris a year earlier.
      For themself, too.
    • 2019 December 20, "Casbah d’Alger : lettre ouverte à Jean Nouvel" L’Humanité:
      Tout architecte se doit d'être complètement responsable des conditions et conséquences politiques des projets qu’iel accepte; toute position qui ferait de lui ou d’elle un.e simple exécutant·e constituerait une insulte à sa fonction et à sa capacité d’agir.

Related terms[edit]

French personal pronouns
Number Person Gender Nominative
(subject) 		Accusative
(direct complement) 		Dative
(indirect complement) 		Locative
(at) 		Genitive
(of) 		Disjunctive
(tonic)
Singular First — je, j’ me, m’ — — moi
Second — tu te, t’ — — toi
Third Masculine il le, l’ lui y en lui
Feminine elle la, l’ elle
Indeterminate on1 — — — — —
Reflexive — se, s’4 — — soi4
Plural First — nous nous — — nous
Second — vous2 vous2,3 — — vous2
Third Masculine ils3 les leur y en eux3
Feminine elles elles
1 Also used as the first person plural.
2 Also used as the polite singular form.
3 Also used when a group has both men and women.
4 Also used as third person plural reflexive.

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Megleno-Romanian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin ille, possibly through a Vulgar Latin *illus. Compare Aromanian, Romanian el.

Pronoun[edit]

iel m sg

  1. he

Related terms[edit]

Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

iel

  1. Alternative form of el

West Frisian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Frisian ēl, from Proto-West Germanic *āl, from Proto-Germanic *ēlaz. Cognate with English eel, Dutch aal and German Aal.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

iel c (plural ielen, diminutive ieltsje)

  1. (countable or uncountable) eel
    Myn hovercraft sit fol mei iel.
    My hovercraft is full of eels.

Further reading[edit]

  • “iel (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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