peil

See also: Peil

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch peil (“level”).

Noun

peil

1. (Japan, hydrology, in compounds) water level

   Tokyo Peil (TP); Yedogawa Peil (YP); Osaka Peil (OP)

Anagrams

• Pile, plie, pile, IEPL, Lipe, Piel, plié

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛi̯l/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: peil
• Rhymes: -ɛi̯l
• Homophone: pijl

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch peyl, a Hollandic variant of peghel, from Old Dutch pegil, from Proto-West Germanic *pagil. Doublet of pegel (“icicle”).

Noun

peil n (plural peilen, diminutive peiltje n)

1. (literal or figurative) level

Derived terms

• alarmpeil
• grondwaterpeil
• oliepeil
• peilen
• waterpeil

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

peil

1. inflection of peilen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Anagrams

• leip, liep

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paɪl/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɪ̯l

Verb

peil

1. singular imperative of peilen

Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *pel, from Latin pila.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʲɛlʲ/

Noun

peil f (genitive singular peile, nominative plural peileanna)

1. football (game, physical ball)
2. Gaelic football

Declension

Declension of peil (second declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative peil peileanna vocative a pheil a pheileanna genitive peile peileanna dative peil peileanna forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an pheil na peileanna genitive na peile na bpeileanna dative leis an bpeil don pheil leis na peileanna

Synonyms

• caid
• (Gaelic football): peil Ghaelach

Derived terms

• cicpheil
• cispheil
• eitpheil
• peil bhoird
• peil Ghaelach
• peil Mheiriceánach
• peileadóir

Mutation

Mutated forms of peil

radical	lenition	eclipsis
peil	pheil	bpeil

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.