lill
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
lill (third-person singular simple present lills, present participle lilling, simple past and past participle lilled)
- (obsolete, dialect) To loll.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Cerberus […] lilled forth his bloody flaming tong
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for chapter LILL, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Estonian edit
Etymology edit
Onomatopoeic. Possibly the same root as in Finnish lelliä.
Noun edit
lill (genitive lille, partitive lille)
- flower (plant)
Declension edit
| Declension of lill (ÕS type 22i/külm, length gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | lill | lilled | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | lille | ||
| genitive | lillede | ||
| partitive | lille | lilli lillesid | |
| illative | lille lillesse |
lilledesse lillisse | |
| inessive | lilles | lilledes lillis | |
| elative | lillest | lilledest lillist | |
| allative | lillele | lilledele lillile | |
| adessive | lillel | lilledel lillil | |
| ablative | lillelt | lilledelt lillilt | |
| translative | lilleks | lilledeks lilliks | |
| terminative | lilleni | lilledeni | |
| essive | lillena | lilledena | |
| abessive | lilleta | lilledeta | |
| comitative | lillega | lilledega | |