lil

See also: Lil, li'l, li-l, lil', lil-, li'l', and Lil'

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /lɪl/
  • Rhymes: -ɪl
  • Homophone: Lil

Adjective

lil

  1. Alternative form of li'l

Anagrams

Aleut

Pronunciation
  • (Western) IPA(key): /ˈlil/

Verb

lil

  1. to look like, appear

References

Irish

Noun

lil f (genitive singular lile, nominative plural lile)

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of lile (“lily”)

Declension
Declension of lil

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lil lile
Vocative a lil a lile
Genitive lile lil
Dative lil lile

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an lil na lile
Genitive na lile na lil
Dative leis an lil

don lil

 leis na lile

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic لِ‎ (li). The final -l may be due to backformation from the personal forms, themselves derived by reduplication. Compare North Levantine Arabic لإلي‎ (laʾilli, “to me”), لإلك‎ (laʾillak, “to you”), etc., reduplicated personal forms of ل‎ (la). And compare a similar backformation from the personal forms in Maltese lejn.

Preposition

lil

  1. to, with

Inflection
    Inflected forms
Base form lil
Personal-pronoun-
including forms		 Singular Plural
Masculine Feminine Common
First person lili lilna
Second person lilek lilkom
Third person lilu lilha lilhom
Definite Forms
Xemxin Qamrin
liċ- · lid- · lin-
lir- · lis- · lit- ·
lix- · liz- · liż-		 lill-

Synonyms

Volapük

Noun

lil (plural lils)

  1. ear

Declension
declension of lil
singular plural
nominative lil lils
genitive lila lilas
dative lile liles
accusative lili lilis
vocative 1 o lil! o lils!
predicative 2 lilu lilus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in some later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms
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