lil

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪl/

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• Rhymes: -ɪl
• Homophone: Lil

Etymology 1

Adjective

lil

1. Alternative form of li'l

Etymology 2

Noun

lil (plural lils)

1. (gypsy slang, obsolete) A book.
   • 1851, George Borrow, Lavengro: The Scholar-The Gypsy-The Priest:

     [H]e'll have quite enough to do in writing his own lils, and telling the world how handsome and clever he was; and who can blame him? Not I. If I could write lils, every word should be about myself and my own tacho Rommanis — my own lawful wedded wife, which is the same thing.

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

• ill, Ill., ILL, 'ill, I'll

Aleut

Pronunciation

• (Western) IPA^(key): /ˈlil/

Verb

lil

1. to look like, appear

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɪl]

Participle

lil

1. masculine singular past active participle of lít

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

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Adjective

lil

1. far

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic لِ (li). The final -l may be due to backformation from the personal forms, themselves derived by reduplication. Compare Moroccan Arabic ليل (līl, “for”), North Levantine Arabic لإلي (laʔilli, “to me”), لإلك (laʔillak, “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

   Synonym: għand

   • 2018, Antoinette Borg, Amina, Merlin Publishers, →ISBN:

     Għafastha għax emozzjonata ħafna u għandi bżonn kbir li nħoss lil xi ħadd qrib tiegħi.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1949, Anton Buttigieg, “Il-Ġebla tal-Ġeneral”, in Fanali bil-Lejl:

     u lili firdu minn mal-art għal dejjem,
     u jien sfajt blata u gżira l-aktar ċkejkna,
     bi ftit faqqiegħ u ftit gremxul sewdieni
     ngħix ħajja waħdi.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Inflection

Inflected forms of lil
Personal-pronoun- including forms		singular		plural
		m	f
1st person		lili		lilna
2nd person		lilek		lilkom
3rd person		lilu	lilha	lilhom
Definite forms
Xemxin				Qamrin
liċ- · lid- · lin- lir- · lis- · lit- · lix- · liz- · liż-				lill-

Derived terms

• ilu
• kell
• lejn
• xulxin

Volapük

Noun

lil (nominative 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 later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms

• lilön