kile
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English kile, kyle, kylle, from Old Norse kýli (“boil”), from Proto-Germanic *kūlǭ, *kūlijǭ (“boil”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewl- (“vessel, bowl, ball”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend, curve, vault”). Cognate with Icelandic kýli (“wen, boil”), Swedish kula (“boil, bulge; pit”), Danish kule (“boil, bump; pit”), German Keule (“club”), German Kuhle (“hollow”), Dutch kuil (“pit, hole”). See also keel.
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kile (plural kiles)
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kile ?
- associate, colleague, sidekick, stooge
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Czech edit
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kile
Danish edit
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kile c (singular definite kilen, plural indefinite kiler)
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kile (imperative kil, infinitive at kile, present tense kiler, past tense kilede, perfect tense har kilet)
Further reading edit
- “kile” in Den Danske Ordbog
Kapampangan edit
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Etymology edit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kiray
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kilé
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kile
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- Claire Moyse-Faurie, Borrowings from Romance languages in Oceanic languages, in Aspects of Language Contact (2008) →ISBN
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle Low German kil; compare with German Keil. The verb is derived from the noun.
Noun edit
kile m (definite singular kilen, indefinite plural kiler, definite plural kilene)
Verb edit
kile (present tense kiler, past tense kilte, past participle kilt)
- (transitive) to wedge
Etymology 2 edit
From Old Norse kitla, from Proto-Germanic *kitilōną.
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kile (present tense kiler, past tense kilte, past participle kilt)
- (transitive, intransitive) to tickle
References edit
- “kile” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Low German kil.
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kile m (definite singular kilen, indefinite plural kilar, definite plural kilane)
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- “kile” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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kile f
Serbo-Croatian edit
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kile (Cyrillic spelling киле)
- inflection of kila:
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kile
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kile
- inflection of kila:
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Audio (Kenya) (file)
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kile
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kile