iel
See also: -iel
Bouyei
Etymology
From Proto-Tai *ˀjɯəᴬ (“medicine”). Cognate with Thai ยา (yaa), Northern Thai ᩀᩣ, Lao ຢາ (yā), Lü ᦊᦱ (ẏaa), Tai Dam ꪤꪱ, Shan ယႃ (yǎa), Zhuang yw.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʔiə˨˦/
Noun
iel
- medicine; drug
- poison
- Synonym: duf
Verb
iel
- to provide medical treatment; to treat
Classical Nahuatl
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈíːjeːɬ]
Noun
īēl inan
- third-person singular possessive singular of ēlli; (it is) his, her or its liver.
Crimean Gothic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *hailiją, from *hailaz; compare Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌻𐍃 (hails).
Pronunciation
- Krause & Slocum reconstruct IPA(key): /eːl/[1]
Noun
iel
- life, health
- 1589, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, letter
- Iel. Vita sive sanitas.
- 1589, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, letter
Derived terms
- iel vburt
References
- https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol/gotol/100#grammar_718
Dutch
Etymology
Contracted from late Middle Dutch idel, which survives uncontracted as ijdel. An alternative contracted form led to ijl.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /il/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: iel
- Rhymes: -il
Adjective
iel (comparative ieler, superlative ielst)
- thin, slender
Inflection
| Inflection of iel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | iel | |||
| inflected | iele | |||
| comparative | ieler | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | iel | ieler | het ielst het ielste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | iele | ielere | ielste |
| n. sing. | iel | ieler | ielste | |
| plural | iele | ielere | ielste | |
| definite | iele | ielere | ielste | |
| partitive | iels | ielers | — | |
Anagrams
- lei
Esperanto
Etymology
From i- (indeterminate correlative prefix) + -el (correlative suffix of manner or degree).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈiel]
- Audio:
(file) - Rhymes: -iel
- Hyphenation: i‧el
Adverb
iel
- somehow, in some way
Derived terms
- iel ajn (“anyhow”)
- iele
French
Alternative forms
- ielle, yel
Etymology
Blend of il + elle.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jɛl/, /i.ɛl/
Audio (file)
Pronoun
iel n (third-person singular, plural iels, accusative lea, dative lui, emphatic ellui, possessive determiner son)
- (gender-neutral, neologism) they (singular). A gender-neutral singular third-person subject personal pronoun, where the gender of the person referenced is unknown, or if they identify as non-binary.
- 2014, Carina Rozenfeld, La Symphonie des abysses, Robert Laffont, book 1:
- […] ; les jours où iels n’avaient pas l’occasion de parler un peu, juste tous les deux, iel se sentait vide.
- […]; on days when they didn't have the opportunity to talk a little, just the two of them, they felt empty.
- 2016 March 4, Olivia B. Smith, Witch Hunt, Partie 1 : Le Legacy d’Olivia:
- Ainsi démarra la journée d’Emil. Iel suivait bien évidement les conseils de sa mère, continuant à affirmer qu’iel était un garçon, ce qui jusque là n’avait jamais été démenti.
- That's how Emil's day started. They naturally followed the advice of their mother and continued to say that they were a boy, which had never been contested until that point.
- 2017, Cindy Van Wilder, chapter 19, in Les Outrepasseurs, volume 4 Férénusia, Gulf stream éditeur:
- Pour les Ferreux.
Pour Ferenusia, découvert en même temps qu’Antoinette, quand iel avait débarqué à Paris un an auparavant.
Pour iel-mêmes, aussi.- For the Ferrous.
For Ferenusia, discovered at the same time as Antoinette, when they had arrived in Paris a year earlier.
For themself, too.
- For the Ferrous.
- 2019 December 20, "Casbah d’Alger : lettre ouverte à Jean Nouvel" L’Humanité:
- Tout architecte se doit d'être complètement responsable des conditions et conséquences politiques des projets qu’iel accepte; toute position qui ferait de lui ou d’elle un.e simple exécutant·e constituerait une insulte à sa fonction et à sa capacité d’agir.
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Related terms
French personal pronouns
| Number | Person | Gender | Nominative (subject) | Accusative (direct complement) | Dative (indirect complement) | Locative (at) | Genitive (of) | Disjunctive (tonic) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | First | — | je, j’ | me, m’ | — | — | moi | |
| Second | — | tu | te, t’ | — | — | toi | ||
| Third | Masculine | il | le, l’ | lui | y | en | lui | |
| Feminine | elle | la, l’ | elle | |||||
| Indeterminate | on1 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Reflexive | — | se, s’4 | — | — | soi4 | |||
| Plural | First | — | nous | nous | — | — | nous | |
| Second | — | vous2 | vous2,3 | — | — | vous2 | ||
| Third | Masculine | ils3 | les | leur | y | en | eux3 | |
| Feminine | elles | elles | ||||||
- 1 Also used as the first person plural.
- 2 Also used as the polite singular form.
- 3 Also used when a group has both men and women.
- 4 Also used as third person plural reflexive.
See also
- lea
- ellui
- cellui
- elleux
- celleux
- Appendix:Switzerland words of the year#fr-2021
References
- "Iel/ielles/illes" : pourquoi et comment utiliser ces pronoms "neutres" ?, RTBF, 13 May 2021
Further reading
- “The online version of the Petit Robert French dictionary has added an entry for a gender-neutral third person pronoun, "iel", also spelled "ielle"”, Language Log, 2021-11-19
Megleno-Romanian
Alternative forms
- i̯el, ĭel
Etymology
From Latin ille, possibly through a Vulgar Latin *illus. Compare Aromanian, Romanian el.
Pronoun
iel m sg
- he
Related terms
- ieľ
Middle English
Noun
iel
- Alternative form of el
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian ēl, from Proto-West Germanic *āl, from Proto-Germanic *ēlaz. Cognate with English eel, Dutch aal and German Aal.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /iə̯l/
Noun
iel c (plural ielen, diminutive ieltsje)
- (countable or uncountable) eel
- Myn hovercraft sit fol mei iel.
- My hovercraft is full of eels.
Further reading
- “iel (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011