huile
See also: huilé
Dutch edit
Verb edit
huile
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French huyle, from Old French oile, from Latin oleum, from olea (“olive”), from Ancient Greek ἐλαία (elaía, “olive”). The h was added in Middle French to indicate that the u was a vowel, as in typography u and v were used interchangeably at the time. Compare huit (“eight”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
huile f (plural huiles)
- oil (liquid fat)
- big gun, big cheese
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Verb edit
huile
- inflection of huiler:
Further reading edit
- “huile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Irish edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
huile
- h-prothesized form of uile
Norman edit
Etymology edit
From Old French oile, from Latin oleum, from olea (“olive”), from Ancient Greek ἐλαία (elaía, “olive”).
Noun edit
huile f (plural huiles)
Old French edit
Etymology edit
Attested with this spelling at least as early as 1260.[1]
Noun edit
huile oblique singular, f (oblique plural huiles, nominative singular huile, nominative plural huiles)
- Alternative form of oile
References edit
- ^ Etymology and history of “huile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old Irish edit
Determiner edit
huile
- Alternative spelling of uile
Inflection edit
io/iā-stem | |||
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Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | huile | huile | huile |
Vocative | huili | ||
Accusative | huile | huili | |
Genitive | huili | huile | huili |
Dative | huiliu | huili | huiliu |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
Nominative | huili | huili | |
Vocative | huili huiliu* | ||
Accusative | huili huiliu* | ||
Genitive | huile | ||
Dative | huilib | ||
Notes | * when substantivized |
Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
huile | unchanged | nhuile |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Spanish edit
Verb edit
huile
- second-person singular voseo imperative of huir combined with le