ꠃꠟ

Sylheti

Etymology

Borrowed from English wool, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂. Compare Bengali উল (ul) and Odia ଉଲ (ula).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ul/

Noun

ꠃꠟ • (ul)

1. wool

Declension

Inflection of ꠃꠟ (ul)
	indefinite forms
nominative	ꠃꠟ (ul)
objective	ꠃꠟ / ꠃꠟꠞꠦ (ul (semantically general or indefinite) / ulre (semantically definite))
genitive	ꠃꠟꠞ (ulor)
locative	ꠃꠟꠧ (ulo)
ergative	ꠃꠟꠦ (ule)
	definite forms
	singular	plural
nominative	ꠃꠟꠉꠥ (ulogu)	ꠃꠟꠉꠥꠁꠘ (uloguin)
objective	ꠃꠟꠉꠥ / ꠃꠟꠉꠥꠞꠦ (ulogu / ulogure)	ꠃꠟꠉꠥꠁꠘ / ꠃꠟꠉꠥꠁꠘꠞꠦ (uloguin / uloguinre)
genitive	ꠃꠟꠉꠥꠞ (ulogur)	ꠃꠟꠉꠥꠁꠘꠞ (uloguinor)
locative	ꠃꠟꠉꠥꠔ (ulogut)	ꠃꠟꠉꠥꠁꠘꠧ (uloguino)
ergative	ꠃꠟꠉꠥꠄ (ulogue)	ꠃꠟꠉꠥꠁꠘꠦ (uloguine)

References

• Gwynn, Roger (2016) “ul”, in Londoni Sylheti dictionary, Part I : Sylheti-English, Middletown, DE: Acre Press.