lill

See also: Lill and lill-

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪl/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɪl

Verb

lill (third-person singular simple present lills, present participle lilling, simple past and past participle lilled)

1. (obsolete, dialect) To loll.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Cerberus […] lilled forth his bloody flaming tong

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for lill in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Estonian

Etymology

Onomatopoetic. Possibly the same root as in Finnish lelliä.

Noun

lill (genitive lille, partitive lille)

1. flower (plant)

Declension

Declension of lill (type külm)

	singular	plural
nominative	lill	lilled
genitive	lille	lillede
partitive	lille	lilli / lillesid
illative	lille / lillesse	lilledesse / lillisse
inessive	lilles	lilledes / lillis
elative	lillest	lilledest / lillist
allative	lillele	lilledele / lillile
adessive	lillel	lilledel / lillil
ablative	lillelt	lilledelt / lillilt
translative	lilleks	lilledeks / lilliks
terminative	lilleni	lilledeni
essive	lillena	lilledena
abessive	lilleta	lilledeta
comitative	lillega	lilledega