iel

See also: -iel

Bouyei

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /ʔiə˨˦/

Noun

iel

1. medicine; drug
2. poison

   Synonym: duf

Verb

iel

1. to provide medical treatment; to treat

Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈíːjeːɬ]

Noun

īēl inan

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

Crimean Gothic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Krause & Slocum reconstruct IPA^(key): /eːl/

Noun

iel

1. life, health
   • 1589, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, letter:

     Iel. Vita sive sanitas.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• iel vburt

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /il/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: iel
• Rhymes: -il

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

iel (comparative ieler, superlative ielst)

1. thin, slender

Declension

Declension 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	—

Derived terms

• ielig

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic, ideophonic, like English ew.

Interjection

iel

1. (informal) ew

   Synonym: ieuw

Anagrams

• lei

Esperanto

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiel/

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• Rhymes: -iel
• Syllabification: i‧el

Adverb

iel

1. somehow, in some way

Derived terms

• iel ajn (“anyhow”)
• iele

See also

Esperanto correlatives

		interrogative	demonstrative	indefinite	universal	negative
		ki-	ti-	i-	ĉi-	neni-
kind of, sort of	-a	kia	tia	ia	ĉia	nenia
reason	-al	kial	tial	ial	ĉial	nenial
time	-am	kiam	tiam	iam	ĉiam	neniam
place	-e	kie	tie	ie	ĉie	nenie
motion	-en	kien	tien	ien	ĉien	nenien
manner	-el	kiel	tiel	iel	ĉiel	neniel
possessive	-es	kies	ties	ies	ĉies	nenies
demonstrative pronoun	-o	kio	tio	io	ĉio	nenio
amount	-om	kiom	tiom	iom	ĉiom	neniom
demonstrative determiner	-u	kiu	tiu	iu	ĉiu	neniu

French

Alternative forms

• ielle, yel

Etymology

Blend of il +‎ elle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɛl/, /i.ɛl/

• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

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Pronoun

iel gender-neutral (third-person singular, plural iels, accusative lea or lae, dative lui, emphatic iel or ellui, possessive determiner son)

1. (gender-neutral, neologism) they (singular). A gender-neutral singular third-person subject personal pronoun.
   • 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 [sic], aussi.

     For the Ferrous.
     For Ferenusia, discovered at the same time as Antoinette, when they had arrived in Paris a year earlier.
     For themselves, too.

   • 2019 December 20, “Casbah d’Alger : lettre ouverte à Jean Nouvel”, in L’Humanité‎^[2]:

     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.

     Every architect must be completely responsible for the conditions and political consequences of the projects that they accept; any position which would make him or her a simple executor would constitute an insult to their function and to their ability to act.

Related terms

French personal pronouns

number	person	gender	nominative (subject)	accusative (direct complement)	dative (indirect complement)	locative (at)	genitive (of)	disjunctive (tonic)1	emphatic reflexive
singular	first	—	je, j’	me, m’		—	—	moi	moi-même
	second	—	tu	te, t’		—	—	toi	toi-même
	third	masculine	il2	le, l’	lui	y	en	lui	lui-même
		feminine	elle	la, l’				elle	elle-même
		indeterminate	on3, l’on (formal), ce4, c’, ça	—	—	—	—	—	—
		reflexive	—	se, s’5		—	—	soi	soi-même
plural	first	—	nous	nous		—	—	nous	nous-mêmes
	second6	—	vous	vous		—	—	vous	vous-mêmes, vous-même6
	third	masculine	ils7	les	leur	y	en	eux7	eux-mêmes7
		feminine	elles					elles	elles-mêmes

¹ The disjunctive (tonic) forms are also used after an explicit preposition (de/d’, à, pour, chez, dans, vers, sur, sous, ...), instead the accusative, dative, genitive, locative, or reflexive forms, where a preposition is implied.
² Il is also used as an impersonal nominative-only pronoun.
³ On can also function as a first person plural (although agreeing with third person singular verb forms).
⁴ The nominal indeterminate form ce (demonstrative) can also be used with the auxiliary verb être as a plural, instead of the proximal or distal gendered forms.
⁵ The reflexive third person singular forms (se or s’) for accusative or dative are also used as third person plural reflexive.
⁶ Vous is also used as the polite singular form, in which case the plural disjunctive tonic vous-mêmes becomes singular vous-même.
⁷ Ils, eux and eux-mêmes are also used when a group has a mixture of masculine and feminine members.

See also

• lea
• ellui
• cellui
• elleux
• celleux
• Appendix:Switzerland words of the year#fr-2021

References

• "Iel/ielles/illes" : pourquoi et comment utiliser ces pronoms "neutres" ?, RTBF, 13 May 2021

Further reading

• “The online version of the Petit Robert French dictionary has added an entry for a gender-neutral third person pronoun, "iel", also spelled "ielle"”, Language Log, 2021-11-19

Megleno-Romanian

Alternative forms

• i̯el, ĭel

Etymology

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

Pronoun

iel m sg

1. he

Related terms

• ieľ

Middle English

Noun

iel

1. alternative form of el

West Frisian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iə̯l/

Noun

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

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