English

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Etymology

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Abbreviation of lines; formed similarly to pp for pages.

Noun

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ll pl (plural only)

  1. lines

Albanian

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ll (upper case Ll)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Albanian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Catalan

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ll (upper case Ll)

  1. (used to represent the sound /ʎ/. See also ŀl.)

Irish

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Pronunciation

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  1. IPA(key): /l̪ˠ/, /l̠ʲ/

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ll (upper case Ll)

  1. A digraph in Irish orthography

Quechua

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Pronunciation

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ll (uppercase Ll)

  1. A letter of the Quechua alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Spanish

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ll (lower case, upper case LL, mixed case Ll)

  1. elle, the 14th letter of the Spanish alphabet, after l and before m

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  • Since 1994, this letter is treated as if it were two separate l letters for collation purposes only. In 2010, this letter was officially dropped by the RAE from the Spanish alphabet.

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Tagalog

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish ll.

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ll (lower case, upper case LL, Baybayin spelling ᜁᜎ᜔ᜌᜒ)

  1. (historical) The fourteenth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (the Abecedario), called elle and written in the Latin script.

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Welsh

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ll (lower case, upper case Ll)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Welsh alphabet, called èll and written in the Latin script. It is preceded by l and followed by m.

Translations

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In Middle and Early Modern English, Welsh ll was adopted as fl. Examples are Floyd, Fluellen and flummery.

Mutation

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Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
llawen lawen unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Further reading

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  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “ll”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies