See also: Zil, žil, and žíl

EnglishEdit

NounEdit

zil (plural zils)

  1. Alternative form of zill (kind of cymbal)

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Antillean CreoleEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French îles. See zil#Haitian Creole for more.

NounEdit

zil

  1. island

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Haitian CreoleEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French île (island). In French, the plural form îles is commonly preceded by a determiner- such as aux, les or mes- whose final s or x is pronounced /z/ before vowels (and is otherwise silent). As a result, îles was reanalyzed in Haitian Creole as beginning with /z/.

NounEdit

zil

  1. island

IndonesianEdit

NounEdit

zil (first-person possessive zilku, second-person possessive zilmu, third-person possessive zilnya)

  1. shadow

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Mauritian CreoleEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French îles. In French, the plural word îles is commonly preceded by a word, such as aux, les or mes, whose final s or x is not pronounced except in front of vowels, where it is pronounced /z/. As a result, îles was reanalyzed as having /z/ at the beginning..

NounEdit

zil

  1. island

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RomagnolEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin caelum.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

zil m

  1. sky
    • November 2012, Augusto Ancarani, Bon Nadel in la Ludla, il Papiro, page 5:
      In zil u gn’ era l’ombra d’una stèla;
      In the sky there wasn’t even a shadow of a star;

TurkishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Ottoman Turkish زل(zil), perhaps from Persian زیر(zir).

NounEdit

zil (definite accusative zili, plural ziller)

  1. (door) bell
  2. cymbal

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YolaEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English zelf, from Old English self.

PronounEdit

zil

  1. self

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 81