jeli
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editjeli (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
editNoun
editjeli (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
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Old Church Slavonic жалити (žaliti), from Proto-Slavic *žaliti. Compare Bulgarian жаля (žalja), Serbo-Croatian žaliti.
Verb
edita 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
editSerbo-Croatian
editNoun
editjeli
Participle
editjeli (Cyrillic spelling јели)
Silesian
editPronunciation
editConjunction
editjeli
- Alternative form of jeśli
Further reading
edit- jeli in silling.org
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- Rhymes:Silesian/ɛli
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