iel
Bouyei edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Tai *ˀjɯəᴬ (“medicine”). Cognate with Thai ยา (yaa), Northern Thai ᩀᩣ, Lao ຢາ (yā), Lü ᦊᦱ (ẏaa), Tai Dam ꪤꪱ, Shan ယႃ (yǎa), Zhuang yw.
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iel
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iel
Classical Nahuatl edit
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īēl inan
- third-person singular possessive singular of ēlli; (it is) his, her or its liver.
Crimean Gothic edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *hailiją, from *hailaz; compare Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌻𐍃 (hails).
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iel
- life, health
- 1589, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, letter:
- Iel. Vita sive sanitas.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Contracted from late Middle Dutch idel, which survives uncontracted as ijdel. An alternative contracted form led to ijl.
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Adjective edit
iel (comparative ieler, superlative ielst)
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Inflection of iel | ||||
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uninflected | iel | |||
inflected | iele | |||
comparative | ieler | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | iel | ieler | het ielst het ielste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | iele | ielere | ielste |
n. sing. | iel | ieler | ielste | |
plural | iele | ielere | ielste | |
definite | iele | ielere | ielste | |
partitive | iels | ielers | — |
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Etymology edit
From i- (indeterminate correlative prefix) + -el (correlative suffix of manner or degree).
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Adverb edit
iel
- somehow, in some way
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Interrogative | Demonstrative | Indefinite | Universal | Negative | ||
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ki- | ti- | i- | ĉi- | neni- | ||
Kind of, sort of | -a | kia | tia | ia | ĉia | nenia |
Reason | -al | kial | tial | ial | ĉial | nenial |
Time | -am | kiam | tiam | iam | ĉiam | neniam |
Place | -e | kie | tie | ie | ĉie | nenie |
Motion | -en | kien | tien | ien | ĉien | nenien |
Manner | -el | kiel | tiel | iel | ĉiel | neniel |
Possessive | -es | kies | ties | ies | ĉies | nenies |
Demonstrative pronoun | -o | kio | tio | io | ĉio | nenio |
Amount | -om | kiom | tiom | iom | ĉiom | neniom |
Demonstrative determiner | -u | kiu | tiu | iu | ĉiu | neniu |
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iel gender-neutral (third-person singular, plural iels, accusative lea, dative lui, emphatic ellui, possessive determiner son)
- (gender-neutral, neologism) they (singular). A gender-neutral singular third-person subject personal pronoun.
- 2014, Carina Rozenfeld, La Symphonie des abysses, Robert Laffont, book 1:
- […] ; les jours où iels n’avaient pas l’occasion de parler un peu, juste tous les deux, iel se sentait vide.
- […]; on days when they didn't have the opportunity to talk a little, just the two of them, they felt empty.
- 2016 March 4, Olivia B. Smith, Witch Hunt, Partie 1 : Le Legacy d’Olivia[1]:
- Ainsi démarra la journée d’Emil. Iel suivait bien évidement les conseils de sa mère, continuant à affirmer qu’iel était un garçon, ce qui jusque là n’avait jamais été démenti.
- That's how Emil's day started. They naturally followed the advice of their mother and continued to say that they were a boy, which had never been contested until that point.
- 2017, Cindy Van Wilder, chapter 19, in Les Outrepasseurs, volume 4 Férénusia, Gulf stream éditeur:
- Pour les Ferreux.
Pour Ferenusia, découvert en même temps qu’Antoinette, quand iel avait débarqué à Paris un an auparavant.
Pour iel-mêmes [sic], aussi.- For the Ferrous.
For Ferenusia, discovered at the same time as Antoinette, when they had arrived in Paris a year earlier.
For themselves, too.
- For the Ferrous.
- 2019 December 20, “Casbah d’Alger : lettre ouverte à Jean Nouvel”, in L’Humanité[2]:
- Tout architecte se doit d’être complètement responsable des conditions et conséquences politiques des projets qu’iel accepte; toute position qui ferait de lui ou d’elle un.e simple exécutant·e constituerait une insulte à sa fonction et à sa capacité d’agir.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Number | Person | Gender | Nominative (subject) |
Accusative (direct complement) |
Dative (indirect complement) |
Disjunctive (tonic) |
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Singular | First | — | je, j’ | me, m’ | moi | |
Second | — | tu | te, t’ | toi | ||
Third | Masculine | il | le, l’ | lui | lui | |
Feminine | elle | la, l’ | elle | |||
Gender neutral5 | iel | lea | ellui | |||
Indeterminate | on1 | — | — | — | ||
Reflexive | — | se, s’4 | soi4 | |||
Plural | First | — | nous | nous | nous | |
Second | — | vous2 | vous2,3 | vous2 | ||
Third | Masculine | ils3 | les | leur | eux | |
Feminine | elles | elles | ||||
Gender neutral5 | iels | elleux |
- 1 Also used as the first person plural.
- 2 Also used as the polite singular form.
- 3 Also used when a group has both men and women.
- 4 Also used as third person plural reflexive.
- 5 Colloquial, and not in popular use.
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Megleno-Romanian edit
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Etymology edit
From Latin ille, possibly through a Vulgar Latin *illus. Compare Aromanian, Romanian el.
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iel m sg
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Middle English edit
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iel
- Alternative form of el
West Frisian edit
Etymology edit
From Old Frisian ēl, from Proto-West Germanic *āl, from Proto-Germanic *ēlaz. Cognate with English eel, Dutch aal and German Aal.
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Noun edit
iel c (plural ielen, diminutive ieltsje)
- (countable or uncountable) eel
- Myn hovercraft sit fol mei iel.
- My hovercraft is full of eels.
Further reading edit
- “iel (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011