oil
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- oyl (obsolete)
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English oyle, oile (“olive oil”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman olie, from Latin oleum (“oil, olive oil”), from Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “olive oil”), from ἐλαία (elaía, “olive”). Compare Proto-Slavic *lojь. More at olive. Supplanted Middle English ele (“oil”), from Old English ele (“oil”), also from Latin.
Noun[edit]
oil (countable and uncountable, plural oils)
- Liquid fat.
- petroleum-based liquid used as fuel or lubricant.
- petroleum
- 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices). It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber.
- (countable) An oil painting.
- 1973, John Ulric Nef, Search for meaning: the autobiography of a nonconformist, page 89:
- Yet, in another way, I was unable to put Picasso's oils in the same class as Cezanne's, or even (which will no doubt shock many readers) as Renoir's.
- (painting) Oil paint.
- I prefer to paint in oil
- (attributive) Containing oil, conveying oil; intended for or capable of containing oil.
- oil barrel; oil pipe
- 1884, Trade News, “A one-wheel Nantucket vehicle”, in The Automotive Manufacturer[1], page 372:
- Such a vehicle is made by taking any old barrel (usually an oil barrel, but the one selected for our sketch was one that once contained Valentine’s varnish) and through each head of the barrel an inch hole is bored, and an iron bar is driven through, leaving the ends projecting about eight inches.
Derived terms[edit]
- abrasin oil
- absinthe oil
- add oil
- almond oil
- baby oil
- banana oil
- beard oil
- beech oil
- ben oil
- big oil
- bio-oil
- bone oil
- bunker oil
- burn the midnight oil
- butter oil
- cajuput oil
- Candy oil
- canola oil
- carap oil
- carrier oil
- Carron oil
- cast oil on troubled waters
- castor-oil
- castor oil
- castor oil plant
- chili oil
- citronella oil
- coal oil
- coconut oil
- cod liver oil
- cod-liver oil
- codliver oil
- concrete oil of wine
- cooking oil
- coquito oil
- corn oil
- cost oil
- cottonseed oil
- crab oil
- croton oil
- crude oil
- Danish oil
- dead oil
- dinkum oil
- Dippel's oil
- drying oil
- earth oil
- engine oil
- essential oil
- ethiodized oil
- evening primrose oil
- fish oil
- flaxseed oil
- Florence oil
- fog oil
- fossil oil
- fuel oil
- fusel oil
- gas oil
- gear oil
- good oil
- gorli oil
- grapeseed oil
- grass oil
- gutter oil
- hair oil
- haliver oil
- hash oil
- heating oil
- honey oil
- immersion oil
- infused oil
- joint oil
- juniper oil
- kekune oil
- lamp-oil
- light oil
- linseed oil
- lubricating oil
- macassar oil
- Malabar oil
- midnight oil
- mineral oil
- mink oil
- motor oil
- mustard oil
- neck oil
- North Sea oil
- oil and water
- oil and water don't mix
- oil baron
- oil beetle
- oil bug
- oil burner
- oil burner route
- oil-burning
- oil cake
- oil-canning
- oil change
- oil company
- oil-down
- oil down
- oil drum
- oil field
- oil-fired
- oil firing
- oil gas
- oil green
- oiligarchy
- oil lamp
- oil-lit
- oilman
- oil mill
- oil of brick
- oil of bricks
- oil of lemon eucalyptus
- oil of mirbane
- oil of myrbane
- oil of olives
- oil of palm
- oil of petre
- oil of spike
- oil of talc
- oil of turpentine
- oil of vitriol
- oil of wine
- oil of wintergreen
- oil opera
- oil paint
- oil painting
- oil palm
- oil pan
- oil patch
- oil-patch
- oil pipeline
- oil platform
- oil pull
- oil pulling
- oil radish
- oil rain lamp
- oil refinery
- oil refining
- oil-rich
- oil rig
- oil sand
- oil-seed camellia
- oil shale
- oilskin
- oil slick
- oilsmoke
- oil spill
- oil spot
- oil stove
- oil swishing
- oil tanker
- oil test
- oil trash
- oil up
- oil well
- oily
- old-oil
- oleo oil
- olive oil
- olive pomace oil
- palm kernel oil
- palm oil
- palm-oil
- paraffin oil
- peak oil
- penetrating oil
- peppermint oil
- petre oil
- pine oil
- pinhoen oil
- poonga oil
- pour oil on troubled waters
- preen oil
- process oil
- pulza oil
- rape oil
- rapeseed oil
- rock oil
- roosa oil
- rose oil
- salad oil
- salad-oil
- seed oil
- Seneca oil
- sesame oil
- shale oil
- smooth as oil
- snake oil
- solar oil
- soybean oil
- sperm oil
- spike oil
- stomach oil
- stone oil
- storm oil
- strap oil
- strike oil
- sump oil
- sunflower oil
- suntan oil
- sweet oil
- tall oil
- tea oil
- tea oil camellia
- tea oil plant
- tea tree oil
- tied oil
- tight oil
- toxic oil syndrome
- tractor vaporising oil
- train oil
- truffle oil
- tung oil
- valve oil
- vegetable oil
- virgin oil
- virgin olive oil
- whale oil
- wood oil
- wood-oil
- worm oil
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Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle English oilen, oylen, from the noun (see above).
Verb[edit]
oil (third-person singular simple present oils, present participle oiling, simple past and past participle oiled)
- (transitive) To lubricate with oil.
- 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M. Hill Co., →OCLC:
- Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess[2]:
- The face which emerged was not reassuring. […] . He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.
- (transitive) To grease with oil for cooking.
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Irish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old Irish ail, oil (“disgrace, reproach; act of reproaching; blemish, defect”).
Noun[edit]
oil f (genitive singular oile)
Declension[edit]
Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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Etymology 2[edit]
From Old Irish ailid, oilid (“nourishes, rears, fosters”) (compare altram (“fosterage”), from a verbal noun of ailid).
Verb[edit]
oil (present analytic oileann, future analytic oilfidh, verbal noun oiliúint, past participle oilte)
- (transitive) nourish, rear, foster
- Proverb: Gach dalta mar a oiltear. ― Every fosterling as it is reared.
- (transitive) train, educate
- lámh oilte ― practised hand
Conjugation[edit]
* Indirect relative
† Archaic or dialect form
‡ Dependent form
‡‡ Dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis (except an)
Etymology 3[edit]
Noun[edit]
oil f (genitive singular oileach, nominative plural oileacha)
- Alternative form of ail (“stone, rock”)
Declension[edit]
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Etymology 4[edit]
Verb[edit]
oil (present analytic oileann, future analytic oilfidh, verbal noun oiliúint, past participle oilte)
- (intransitive) Alternative form of oir (“suit, fit, become”)
Conjugation[edit]
* Indirect relative
† Archaic or dialect form
‡ Dependent form
‡‡ Dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis (except an)
Mutation[edit]
Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
oil | n-oil | hoil | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading[edit]
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “oil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 ail (‘disgrace, reproach’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 ailid (‘nourish, foster’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
oil
- Alternative form of oyle
Old French[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
- Vulgar Latin *hoc ille, from Latin hoc + ille (“this [is what] he [said]”),[1] akin to o je, o tu, o nos, o vos, all ‘this’ constructed with other personal pronouns[2][3];
- hoc illud (“this is it, lit. this that”).
In any case, an elliptical phrase of response, by semantic erosion/grammaticalization possibly calqued on Gaulish: compare Portuguese and Spanish isso and eso (“yes, yeah”, literally “this”), Celtic languages such as Old Irish tó (“yes”), Welsh do (“indeed”), from *tod (“this, that”).[4]
Compare with Old French o, ou, oc, ec, euc, uoc, Old Occitan oc (Occitan òc), all from the simple Latin hoc.
Alternative forms[edit]
- oïl (almost always used by scholars to disambiguate with other meanings)
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
oil
Interjection[edit]
oil
- yes
- circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
- "Oïl, mout m'an sovient il bien.
Seneschaus, savez vos an rien?- Yes, I remember it well
- Seneschal, do you know anything about it?
- "Oïl, mout m'an sovient il bien.
- circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Languages Within Language, by Ivan Fonagy, page 66
- ^ “oui”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- ^ Trésor de la Langue Française informatisé at atilf.fr; select “OÏL”
- ^ Peter Schrijver, Studies in the History of Celtic Pronouns and Particles, Maynooth, 1997, 15.
Etymology 2[edit]
See ueil.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
oil m (oblique plural ouz or oilz, nominative singular ouz or oilz, nominative plural oil)
- Alternative form of ueil
Simeulue[edit]
Noun[edit]
oil
References[edit]
- Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary
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