bil

bil

1. Abbreviation of billion.

• LIB, Lib, Lib., lib

From Proto-Tai *piːᴬ (“year”). Cognate with Thai ปี (bpii), Northern Thai ᨸᩦ, Lao ປີ (pī), Lü ᦔᦲ (ṗii), Shan ပီ (pǐi), Tai Nüa ᥙᥤ (pi), Ahom 𑜆𑜣 (pii), Zhuang bi.

bil

1. year

• IPA^(key): /bɪl/
• Homophone: byl

bil

1. masculine singular past participle of bít

From a clipping of automobil (“automobile”), from French automobile (“automotive”).

• IPA^(key): /biːl/, [b̥iːˀl]
• Rhymes: -iːl

bil c (singular definite bilen, plural indefinite biler)

1. car, automobile

• Faroese: bilur
• Greenlandic: biili
• Icelandic: bíll

• IPA^(key): /bɪl/

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• Hyphenation: bil
• Rhymes: -ɪl

From Middle Dutch bille. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

bil f (plural billen, diminutive billetje n)

1. A buttock, usually used in the plural: billen, unless specified as left/right

bil f (plural billen, diminutive billetje n)

1. a hammer-like double-edged tool used by stonecutters and millers

• bilhamer, zwaaispits, tweespits

• billen, biller, steenbiller, bilhamer, bilmachine

Presumably from Swedish bil.

bil m

1. car, automobile

• IPA^(key): /piːl/
• Rhymes: -iːl
• Homophone: byl

bil n (genitive singular bils, plural bil)

1. A space
2. A while, time, period

bil

1. accusative singular of bilur

Borrowed from English bill.

bîl m

1. bill, invoice

From Old Norse bil, from Proto-Germanic *bilą.

• IPA^(key): /pɪːl/
• Rhymes: -ɪːl
• Homophone: byl

bil n (genitive singular bils, nominative plural bil)

1. space, interval
2. period of time, moment, space
3. (computing) space
4. damage, wound, nick
5. (archaic) hesitation, break (in some action, process, etc.)

• um það bil
• bilstöng
• línubil
• tímabil

• bila

This word originates from a contest to create a Norwegian word for car. The winning proposition was "bil", a short form of automobil.

• IPA^(key): /biːl/
• Rhymes: -iːl

bil m (definite singular bilen, indefinite plural biler, definite plural bilene)

1. a car, automobile

• “bil” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

This word originates from a contest to create a Norwegian word for car. The winning proposition was "bil", a short form of automobil.

• IPA^(key): /biːl/

bil m (definite singular bilen, indefinite plural bilar, definite plural bilane)

1. a car, automobile

• “bil” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From West Germanic *billo-, from Proto-Germanic *bilją. Cognate with Old Saxon bil, Old High German bill (German Bille (“pickaxe”)).

• IPA^(key): /bil/

bil n

1. (poetic) A kind of sword or other bladed weapon, apparently having two edges

   Abrægd mid ðy bille. He brandished with his sword.

• English: bill

• mēċe m
• seċġ m
• sweord n

Clipping of automobil.

• IPA^(key): /biːl/

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bil c

1. a car, an automobile

• bil in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

bil

1. a kind of salmon (Salmo Taimen)

From English bill.

bil

1. bill

bil

1. imperative of bilmek

• bir (this is the modern word (spelling) for "beer", cf. de: Bier, nds: Beer, Bier, yi: ביר‎ (bir) (bir), it: birra, fr: bière, el: μπίρα (bíra) (bíra), nl: bier, ja: ビール (bīru), id: bir, ia: bira, io: biro)

From English beer and German Bier (this deformation was changed back to the original "r" sound)

• IPA^(key): [bil]

bil (plural bils)

1. bile, gall (an obsolete English term for bile)
2. (obsolete word (the "l" was changed to "r") for bir "beer") beer

• bilaston
• bilavesid
• bilik

Borrowed from English bill (“note of charges for goods; list”), from Middle English bille (“document”), from Anglo-Norman bille, from Old French bulle, from Medieval Latin bulla (“seal; sealed document”).

bil m (plural biliau)

1. bill (receipt)

• Angharad Fychan and Ann Parry Owen, editors (2014), “bil”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies