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
Verb
iel
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
Noun
iel
- life, health
- 1589, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, letter:
- Iel. Vita sive sanitas.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
References
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)
Declension
| Declension 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 | — | |
Derived terms
Anagrams
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
See also
| interrogative | demonstrative | indefinite | universal | negative | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ki- | ti- | i- | ĉi- | neni- | ||
| kind of, sort of | -a | kia | tia | ia | ĉia | nenia |
| reason | -al | kial | tial | ial | ĉial | nenial |
| time | -am | kiam | tiam | iam | ĉiam | neniam |
| place | -e | kie | tie | ie | ĉie | nenie |
| motion | -en | kien | tien | ien | ĉien | nenien |
| manner | -el | kiel | tiel | iel | ĉiel | neniel |
| possessive | -es | kies | ties | ies | ĉies | nenies |
| demonstrative pronoun | -o | kio | tio | io | ĉio | nenio |
| amount | -om | kiom | tiom | iom | ĉiom | neniom |
| demonstrative determiner | -u | kiu | tiu | iu | ĉiu | neniu |
French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jɛl/, /i.ɛl/
Audio: (file)
Pronoun
iel gender-neutral (third-person singular, plural iels, accusative lea or lae, dative lui, emphatic iel or ellui, possessive determiner son)
- (gender-neutral, neologism) they (singular). A gender-neutral singular third-person subject personal pronoun.
- 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[1]:
- 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 [sic], aussi.- For the Ferrous.
For Ferenusia, discovered at the same time as Antoinette, when they had arrived in Paris a year earlier.
For themselves, too.
- For the Ferrous.
- 2019 December 20, “Casbah d’Alger : lettre ouverte à Jean Nouvel”, in L’Humanité[2]:
- 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.
- Every architect must be completely responsible for the conditions and political consequences of the projects that they accept; any position which would make him or her a simple executor would constitute an insult to their function and to their ability to act.
Related terms
| number | person | gender | nominative (subject) |
accusative (direct complement) |
dative (indirect complement) |
locative (at) |
genitive (of) |
disjunctive (tonic)1 |
emphatic reflexive |
relative | proximal | distal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | first | — | je, j’ | me, m’ | — | — | moi | moi-même | — | |||
| second | — | tu | te, t’ | — | — | toi | toi-même | — | ||||
| third | masculine | il2 | le, l’ | lui | y | en | lui | lui-même | celui | celui-ci | celui-là | |
| feminine | elle | la, l’ | elle | elle-même | celle | celle-ci | celle-là | |||||
| indeterminate | on3, l’on (formal), ce4, c’, ça | — | — | — | — | — | — | ce | ceci | cela, ça | ||
| reflexive | — | se, s’5 | — | — | soi | soi-même | — | |||||
| plural | first | — | nous | nous | — | — | nous | nous-mêmes | — | |||
| second6 | — | vous | vous | — | — | vous | vous-mêmes, vous-même6 |
— | ||||
| third | masculine | ils7 | les | leur | y | en | eux7 | eux-mêmes7 | ceux | ceux-ci | ceux-là | |
| feminine | elles | elles | elles-mêmes | celles | celles-ci | celles-là | ||||||
1 The disjunctive (tonic) forms are also used after an explicit preposition (de/d‘, à, pour, chez, dans, vers, sur, sous, ...), instead the accusative, dative, genitive, locative, or reflexive forms, where a preposition is implied.
2 Il is also used as an impersonal nominative-only pronoun.
3 On can also function as a first person plural (although agreeing with third person singular verb forms).
4 The nominal indeterminate form ce (demonstrative) can also be used with the auxiliary verb être as a plural, instead of the proximal or distal gendered forms.
5 The reflexive third person singular forms (se or s’) for accusative or dative are also used as third person plural reflexive.
6 Vous is also used as the polite singular form, in which case the plural disjunctive tonic vous-mêmes becomes singular vous-même.
7 Ils, eux and eux-mêmes are also used when a group has a mixture of masculine and feminine members.
See also
References
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
Related terms
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