fil

fil (uncountable)

1. A Nordic dairy product, similar to yogurt, but using different bacteria which give a different taste and texture.

• LIF, lif

Ultimately from Arabic فِيل‎ (fīl).

fil (definite accusative fili, plural fillər)

1. elephant
2. (chess) bishop

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin fīlum, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰiH-(s-)lo-.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈfil/

fil m (plural fils)

1. thread, wire
2. (Internet) discussion thread

   Synonym: tema

• filar

• “fil” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “fil” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “fil” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fil” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin fīlum.

fil m

1. thread, yarn, string

• filur

From Middle Low German vīle.

• IPA^(key): /fiːl/, [fiːˀl]
• Rhymes: -iːl

fil c (singular definite filen, plural indefinite file)

1. file (tool)

Borrowed from English file (“an aggregation of data”) (1962).

• IPA^(key): /fiːl/, [fiːˀl]

fil c (singular definite filen, plural indefinite filer)

1. file (computer terminology)

See file.

• IPA^(key): /fiːl/, [fiːˀl]

fil

1. imperative of file

From Old French fil, from Latin fīlum, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰiH-(s-)lo-.

• IPA^(key): /fil/

• audio

  (file)

• Homophones: file, filent, files, fils, Phil, -phile
• Rhymes: -il

fil m (plural fils)

1. yarn, thread, wire

   ne tenir qu'à un fil

   to hang by a thread

2. grain (of wood etc.)
3. edge (of blade, razor etc.)

• → English: file (“collection of papers”) (see there for further descendants)

• “fil” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

fil (plural files)

1. thread
2. wire

fil m (invariable)

1. Apocopic form of filo

• IPA^(key): /fɪl/

fil

1. elephant

• IPA^(key): /fiːl/
• Rhymes: -iːl

fil f or m (definite singular fila or filen, indefinite plural filer, definite plural filene)

1. A file.
2. A hand tool used for removing sharp edges or for cutting, especially through metal.
3. A section of roadway for a single line of vehicles, a lane.

From Latin fīlium, accusative singular of fīlius. The nominative form fiz, fils (whence modern French fils), derives from the Latin nominative.

• IPA^(key): /fiʎ/

fil m (oblique plural fiz or filz, nominative singular fiz or filz, nominative plural fil)

1. son (male child)

• English: Fitz (from the nominative fiz)
• French: fils (from the nominative "fiz", later "fils")

From Latin fīlum.

• IPA^(key): /fil/

fil m (oblique plural fis, nominative singular fis, nominative plural fil)

1. thread (fine strand of material)
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, 'Érec et Énide':

     A fil d'or ovree et tissue.

     It was made and woven from fine threads of gold

• French: fil

• fail
• feil
• fel
• fele (relative)
• file (relative)

From Proto-Celtic *wele (“see!”), the imperative of Proto-Celtic *wel- (“see”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“see”), compare Welsh gweled (“to see”). Semantic development from "see!" to "there is" is parallel to that of French voici, from vois ci "see here" and voilà, from vois là "see there".

• IPA^(key): /fʲilʲ/

·fil (conjunct), fil (relative)

1. present progressive conjunct of at·tá
2. third-person singular present progressive relative of at·tá

In the conjunct form, the logical subject appears in the accusative (or as an infixed object pronoun) in the oldest language. Examples: nícon·ḟil nach rainn (“there is no part”), nín·fil (“we are not”), condib·feil (“so that you pl are”).

• Irish: bhfuil, níl
• Manx: vel, nel
• Scottish Gaelic: bheil, eil

• fȉlj

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish فیل‎ (fil) (modern Turkish fil), from Arabic فِيل‎ (fīl), from Middle Persian pyl (pīl), from Akkadian 𒄠𒋛 (pīru). Akin to fìldiš.

• (fȉl): IPA^(key): /fîl/
• (fȋl): IPA^(key): /fîːl/

fȉl m (Cyrillic spelling фи̏л) or fȋl m (Cyrillic spelling фи̑л)

1. (regional) elephant

• (elephant): slȍn

• “fil” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• Abdulah Škaljić (1966), Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Svjetlost: Sarajevo, page 283
• “fil”, in Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 6, Друго фототипско издање edition, Нови Сад, Загреб: Матица српска, Матица хрватска, 1967–1976, published 1990, page 668

From Middle Low German vīle. Cognate with English file and German Feile.

• IPA^(key): /fiːl/

• audio

  (file)

fil c

1. a file (a tool)

• bågfil
• fila
• filare
• filklove
• filning
• filspån
• järnfil

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Row and lane (a row of vehicles) is one etymology, but as English file suggests computer file has a different etymology. However, the Swedish computer file is sometimes explained as a row of bytes, in attempt to shoehorn this new English loanword into the etymology of the existing word.

• IPA^(key): /fiːl/

• audio

  (file)

fil c

1. a row of objects; most commonly used about moving objects
2. a section of roadway for a single line of vehicles, a lane
3. file (in computer technology)

row

• defilera

lane

• filkörning
• filmarkering

computer file

• fildelare
• fildelning
• filformat
• filhanterare
• filkatalog
• filnamn

• IPA^(key): /fiːl/

• audio

  (file)

fil c (uncountable)

1. any product from a family of various (deliberately) soured milk products
2. abbreviation for filmjölk; a particular kind of fil as above

• filbunke
• filmjölk
• filpaket
• gräddfil
• långfil
• lättfil

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

From English field.

fil

1. sportsfield

From Ottoman Turkish فیل‎ (fil), from Arabic فِيل‎ (fīl), from Persian پیل‎ (pīl) (and from alternate Ottoman Turkish پیل‎ (pil), directly from Persian پیل‎ (pīl)), from Akkadian 𒄠𒋛 (pīru), related to Egyptian ꜣbw (root of English elephant).

• IPA^(key): /fil/

fil (definite accusative fili, plural filler)

1. elephant
2. (chess) bishop

fil (plural fillar)

1. elephant
2. (chess) bishop

fil (plural fils)

1. fire

• IPA^(key): /viːl/

fil

1. soft mutation of mil

fil f

1. Snivel.

• fiil

Compare Icelandic þél (“thickened milk.”) Related to tjett (“dense.”)

fil n

1. A kind of fermented and soured milk.