eel

See also: Eel, e'el, eʼel, eel-, and -eel

English

Wikispecies

an eel

Etymology

From Middle English el, from Old English ǣl (“eel”), from Proto-West Germanic *āl, from Proto-Germanic *ēlaz (“eel”), which is of unknown origin.

Cognates:

Cognate with West Frisian iel (“eel”), Dutch aal (“eel”), German Low German Aal, Ool (“eel”), German Aal (“eel”), Swedish, Danish and Norwegian ål (“eel”).

Pronunciation

enPR: ēl, IPA^(key): /iːl/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -iːl
Homophone: 'e'll

Noun

eel (plural eels)

Any freshwater or marine fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes.
The European eel, Anguilla anguilla.

Derived terms

African eel
African longfin eel (Anguilla mossambica)
African mottled eel (Anguilla bengalensis labiata)
African spoon-nose eel (Mystriophis rostellatus)
Asian swamp eel
bastard eel
conger eel
Congo eel (Amphiuma spp. (order Caudata))
cusk-eel
cutthroat eel (family Synaphobranchidae)
deep-sea spiny eel (family Notacanthidae (order Notacanthiformes))
deepwater big-eyed worm eel
duckbill eel (family Nettastomatidae)
eel-blenny
eelboat
eelbuck
eeler
eelfare
eelfish
eelgrass (Zostera spp., [marine], Vallisneria spp. [freshwater])
eelish
eel-like
eellike
eelpot
eelpout, eel-pout
eelskin
eelspear
eely
electric eel (order Gymnotiformes)
European eel
fangtooth snake-eel
fire eel (Mastacembelus erythrotaenia)
garden eel
glass eel
gulper eel
Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica)
lamper eel
longfin eel (Anguilla mossambica)
longneck eel
marbled eel
Mauritanian shortface eel
monkeyface eel
moray eel
mud eel (Siren intermedia (order Caudata))
neck eel
pelican eel
pike eel (Muraenesox bagio)
rubber eel (family Typhlonectidae (order Gymnophiona))
sand eel (family Ammodytidae)
sawtooth eel (family Serrivomeridae)
sea eel
silver eel
slime eel (Myxinidae spp.)
slippery as an eel
snake-eel
snake eel (family Ophichthidae)
snipe eel (family Nemichthyidae)
snowflake eel
spaghetti eel (family Moringuidae)
spiny eel (family Mastacembelidae (order Synbranchiformes))
thin eel (genus Myroconger)
two-legged eel (Siren intermedia (order Caudata))
vinegar eel
West coast snake eel (Mystriophis rostellatus)
wheat-eel
wolf eel
worm eel (families Ophichthidae, Moringuidae, et al)

Translations

any fish of the order Anguilliformes

Abenaki: nahômo
Afrikaans: aal (af), paling (af)
Aklanon: igat
Albanian: ngjalë (sq) f
Algonquin: mihtúckquashep
Arabic: أَنْقَلِيس‎ m (ʾanqalīs), أَنْكَلِيس‎ m (ʾankalīs)
Egyptian Arabic: حَنَشْ‎ m (ḥanaš)
Hijazi Arabic: أَنْقَليس‎ m (ʾangalīs), أَنْكَليس‎ m (ʾankalīs)
Levantine, North: أَنْكَلِيس‎ m (ʾankalīs)
Levantine, South: حَنْكَلِيس‎ m (ḥankalīs)
Moroccan Arabic: نُونَة‎ m (nūna)
Armenian: օձաձուկ (hy) (ōjajuk)
Asturian: anguila f
Azerbaijani: ilan balığı
Basque: aingira
Bau Bidayuh: bodung
Belarusian: ву́гар m (vúhar), вуго́р m (vuhór)
Bengali: বানমাছ (banômachô)
Bislama: namarae
Breton: silienn (br) m
Bulgarian: змио́рка (bg) f (zmiórka)
Burmese: ငါးရှဉ့် (my) (nga:hrany.)
Catalan: anguila (ca) f
Cayuga: gǫ́ːdeh
Cebuano: kasili
Central Melanau: beduong
Ch'orti': utuʼ čay
Cherokee: ᏢᏕᎦ (tlvdega)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 鰻魚, 鳗鱼 (maan⁴ jyu²)
Mandarin: 鰻魚／鳗鱼 (zh) (mányú), 鰻／鳗 (zh) (mán), 鱔魚／鳝鱼 (zh) (shànyú), 䱇／𱇞 (zh)
Min Nan: 鰻 (muâ), 鱸鰻 (zh-min-nan) (lô͘-môa), 海鰻 (zh-min-nan) (hái-môa), 烏耳鰻 (zh-min-nan) (o͘-hī-môa)
Cornish: sylli f
Corsican: anguilla
Creek: acv´ppv
Czech: úhoř (cs) m
Dalmatian: anǧola
Danish: ål (da) c, ålefisk c
Daur: kotmaal
Dhivehi: ވެނ‎ (ven)
Dutch: paling (nl) m, aal (nl) m (before it can spawn), palingachtigen pl
Elfdalian: ål m
Esperanto: angilo
Estonian: angerjas (et), angerjalised
Faroese: állur m, álur m
Finnish: ankerias (fi), ankeriaskala
French: anguille (fr) f
Friulian: bisat m
Galician: airoa (gl) f, anguía (gl) f
Georgian: გველთევზა (ka) (gveltevza, literally “snake fish”), გველთევზასნაირნი pl (gveltevzasnairni)
German: Aal (de) m, Aalartige pl
Greek: χέλι (el) n (chéli)
Ancient: ἔγχελυς f (énkhelus)
Greenlandic: nimeriaq
Gujarati: બામ માછલી f (bām māchlī)
Haitian Creole: zangi
Hawaiian: puhi
Hebrew: צְלוֹפָח‎ (he) (tzlofáḥ)
Higaonon: kasili
Hindi: सर्पमीन f (sarpamīn), ईल (hi) (īl), बाम मछली (bām machlī)
Hungarian: angolna (hu)
Icelandic: áll (is) m
Ido: anguilo (io)
Indonesian: belut (id)
Irish: eascann f
Isnag: ixat
Italian: anguilla (it) m
Japanese: ウナギ (ja) (unagi), 鰻 (ja) (うなぎ, unagi)
Javanese: welut (jv)
Kannada: ನೀರಹಾವು (nīrahāvu)
Kapampangan: igat (black), palus
Kashubian: wãgòrz m
Kazakh: жыланбалық (jylanbalyq)
Khmer: អន្ទង់ (km) (ɑntʊəng)
Klamath-Modoc: ġawi
Korean: 장어 (ko) (jang'eo)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: مارماسی‎ (ku) (marmasî)
Northern Kurdish: marmasî (ku) m (literally “snake fish”)
Lao: ຕົວອ່ຽນ (tūa ʼīan)
Latin: anguilla f
Latvian: zutis (lv) m
Limburgish: aol (li)
Lithuanian: ungurys m, unguriažuvės pl
Luxembourgish: Éil (lb), Laangfësch (literally “long fish”)
Macedonian: јагула f (jagula)
Malay: belut (ms), ikan mua
Malayalam: ആരല് (āralŭ), മനഞ്ഞില്മത്സ്യം (manaññilmatsyaṃ), വഴുതിമാറുന്നവന് (vaḻutimāṟunnavanŭ), വിലാഞ്ഞില് (vilāññilŭ)
Maltese: sallura f
Manx: astan f
Maori: tuna
Marathi: बाम माछली (bām māchlī)
Mi'kmaq: ga't anim
Middle English: el
Mongolian: могой загас (mn) (mogoj zagas, literally “snake fish”)
Nahuatl: cōāmichin
Navajo: naʼashǫ́ʼii łóóʼ (literally “lizard fish”)
Neapolitan: capitone
Ngazidja Comorian: mhunga class 3/4
Northern Sami: ággaras
Norwegian: ål (no) m
O'odham: wamad watopi
Occitan: anguila (oc) f
Old English: ǣl m
Old Norse: áll m
Ottoman Turkish: ییلان بالغی‎ (yılan balığı)
Persian: مارماهی‎ (fa) (mârmâhi)
Polabian: voďör m
Polish: węgorz (pl) m, węgorzokształtne pl
Portuguese: enguia (pt) f
Romanian: anghilă (ro) f, țipar (ro) m
Romansch: anguilla f
Russian: у́горь (ru) m (úgorʹ)
Scottish Gaelic: easgann (gd) f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: јегуља f, угор m
Roman: jegulja (sh) f, ugor (sh) m
Sicilian: anghidda (scn) f, ancidda (scn), ncidda (scn), nghidda (scn)
Slovak: úhor m
Slovene: jegulja (sl) f, ogór m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: wugoŕ m
Upper Sorbian: wuhor m
Spanish: anguila (es) f
Swahili: mkunga (sw)
Swedish: ål (sv) c
Tagalog: igat
Tajik: мормоҳӣ (tg) (mormohī)
Tamil: விலாங்கு (ta) (vilāṅku)
Telugu: మలుగు చేప (malugu cēpa)
Tetum: tuna
Thai: ปลาไหล (th) (bplaa lăi)
Tibetan: སྦྲུལ་ཉ (sbrul nya)
Tok Pisin: mario
Turkish: yılan balığı (tr) (literally “snake fish”)
Ukrainian: вуго́р m (vuhór)
Venetian: bixato (vec) m, bixat m, bixata f, bisato
Vietnamese: cá chình
Volapük: (♂♀) pil (vo), (♂) hipil, (♀) jipil (vo), (♂♀) snekafit (older term)
Walloon: anweye (wa)
Waray-Waray: indong
Welsh: llysywen (cy) m
West Coast Bajau: badung
West Frisian: iel c
White Hmong: ntses nab
Wiradhuri: galindulin
Yiddish: ווענגער‎ m (venger)

Anguilla anguilla — see European eel

Verb

eel (third-person singular simple present eels, present participle eeling, simple past and past participle eeled)

To fish for eels.
To move with a sinuous motion like that of an eel.

Anagrams

ELE, Lee, l'ee, lee

Estonian

Noun

eel

adessive singular of esi

Ingrian

Spatial inflection of *eel*
↗︎○	allative	eelle
○	adessive	eel
○↘︎	ablative	eelt

Pronunciation

(Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈeːlːæ/, [ˈeːlʲː]

(Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈeːl/, [ˈe̝ːl]

Rhymes: -eːlːæ, -eːl

Hyphenation: eel
Homophone: eelle

Postposition

eel (+ genitive)

(of location) before, in front of

Noun

eel

adessive singular of esi

References

Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 38

Middle English

Noun

eel

Alternative form of el

Mopan Maya

Verb

eel

to know, to have knowledge of

References

Hofling, Charles Andrew (2011). Mopan Maya–Spanish–English Dictionary, University of Utah Press.

Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

From Old Norse elda.

Verb

eel

To make fire, to keep a fire for warmth.
hån ele för nåtta
He made fire for the night.

Conjugation

Conjugation of eel.

indicative	present	past
infinitive	eel
present participle	elen
adverbial participle	elenes
past participle	ele
supine	ele
singular	eel	ele
plural	eel	ele
subjunctive	present	past
singular	eel	ele
plural	eel	ele
imperative	present
singular	el
plural	elen

Noun

eel m pl

nominative & accusative indefinite plural of el