ఇల్లు

Inherited from Proto-Dravidian *il. Cognate with Tamil இல் (il, “house”), Malayalam ഇല്ലം (illaṁ, “house, place”), Kodava ಇಲ್ಲವೇನ್ (illavēn, “man who is a relative”), Tulu ಇಲ್ಲ್ (illŭ, “house, dwelling, family”), Kolami ఎల్ల (ella, “house”). False cognate of Greenlandic illu.

• IPA^(key): /ilːu/

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• Rhymes: -ల్లు

ఇల్లు • (illu) n (plural plural or ఇండ్లు or or or ఇళ్లు or genitive or ఇంటి)

1. A house (a structure serving as an abode of human beings).

   Synonyms: కొంప (kompa), గృహము (gr̥hamu), సదనము (sadanamu), నికేతనము (nikētanamu), (figuratively) గడప (gaḍapa)

ఇల్లు (illu) is a Class D noun, meaning the stem changes to ఇంటి (iṇṭi)-

1=ఇంటిలు

Telugu Declension. Telugu nouns have six classes (A-F), each with their own way of declining the noun stem. Read more here, under "Oblique Stem Formation": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telugu_grammar#Nouns

The nominative case is simply the default, underlined form of the noun.

All Telugu nouns have the nominative plural ending of "-లు".

• Brown-1903, Gwynn (2022) “ఇల్లు”, in Digital Dictionaries of South India [Combined Telugu Dictionaries]
• ఇల్లు at Telugu On-line Dictionaries Project on Andhra Bharati, partially sponsored by the Telugu Association of North America (in Telugu)
• L. Chakradhara Rao et al, editors (1978-1995), “ఇల్లు”, in తెలుగు వ్యుత్పత్తికోశం [Telugu Etymological Dictionary] (in Telugu), Visakhapatnam (Waltair): Andhra University Press and Publications