jeli
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
jeli (plural jelis)
- A member of the hereditary caste of griots among the Mandé peoples, whose social roles include transmitting their people's oral traditions and playing traditional music (jeliya).
- Synonym: griot
- 2000, Eric Charry, Mande Music: Traditional and Modern Music of the Maninka and Mandinka of Western Africa, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 3:
- Jeliya (the art of the jeli) goes back to the thirteenth-century origins of the Mali empire, although the institution of the griot in West Africa probably stems from the earlier Ghana empire (also known as Wagadu), which declined in the late eleventh century.
Bambara edit
Noun edit
jeli (plural jeliw)
- A member of the hereditary caste of griots among the Mandé peoples, whose social roles include transmitting their people's oral traditions and playing traditional music (jeliya).
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic жалити (žaliti) or a Common Slavic žaliti, from Proto-Slavic *žaliti. Compare Bulgarian жаля (žalja), Serbo-Croatian žaliti.
Verb edit
a jeli (third-person singular present jele, past participle jelit) 4th conj.
Conjugation edit
conjugation of jeli (fourth conjugation, no infix)
infinitive | a jeli | ||||||
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gerund | jelind | ||||||
past participle | jelit | ||||||
number | singular | plural | |||||
person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |
indicative | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
present | jel | jeli | jele | jelim | jeliți | jel | |
imperfect | jeleam | jeleai | jelea | jeleam | jeleați | jeleau | |
simple perfect | jelii | jeliși | jeli | jelirăm | jelirăți | jeliră | |
pluperfect | jelisem | jeliseși | jelise | jeliserăm | jeliserăți | jeliseră | |
subjunctive | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
present | să jel | să jeli | să jelă | să jelim | să jeliți | să jelă | |
imperative | — | tu | — | — | voi | — | |
affirmative | jele | jeliți | |||||
negative | nu jeli | nu jeliți |
See also edit
Serbo-Croatian edit
Noun edit
jeli
Participle edit
jeli (Cyrillic spelling јели)
Silesian edit
Pronunciation edit
Conjunction edit
jeli
- Alternative form of jeśli
Further reading edit
- jeli in silling.org