zil
English edit
Noun edit
zil (plural zils)
- Alternative form of zill (kind of cymbal)
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Antillean Creole edit
Etymology edit
From French îles. See zil#Haitian Creole for more.
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zil
Synonyms edit
- (Saint Lucia) lilèt
Haitian Creole edit
Etymology edit
From French île (“island”). In French, the plural form îles is commonly preceded by a determiner- such as aux, les or mes- whose final s or x is pronounced /z/ before vowels (and is otherwise silent). As a result, îles was reanalyzed in Haitian Creole as beginning with /z/.
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zil
Mauritian Creole edit
Etymology edit
From French îles. In French, the plural word îles is commonly preceded by a word, such as aux, les or mes, whose final s or x is not pronounced except in front of vowels, where it is pronounced /z/. As a result, îles was reanalyzed as having /z/ at the beginning..
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zil
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- zilwa (islander)
Romagnol edit
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zil m
- sky
- November 2012, Augusto Ancarani, Bon Nadel in la Ludla, il Papiro, page 5:
- In zil u gn’ era l’ombra d’una stèla;
- In the sky there wasn’t even a shadow of a star;
- November 2012, Augusto Ancarani, Bon Nadel in la Ludla, il Papiro, page 5:
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish زل (zil), perhaps from Persian زیر (zir).
Noun edit
zil (definite accusative zili, plural ziller)
References edit
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2014-10-24) “zil”, in Nişanyan Sözlük, retrieved 2016-12-20
Yola edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English self, from Old English self.
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Pronoun edit
zil
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- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 81