iel

From Proto-Tai *ˀjɯəᴬ (“medicine”). Cognate with Thai ยา (yaa), Northern Thai ᩀᩣ, Lao ຢາ (yā), Lü ᦊᦱ (ẏaa), Tai Dam ꪤꪱ, Shan ယႃ (yǎa), Zhuang yw.

• IPA^(key): /ʔiə˨˦/

iel

1. medicine; drug
2. poison

   Synonym: duf

iel

1. to provide medical treatment; to treat

• IPA^(key): [ˈíːjeːɬ]

īēl inan

1. third-person singular possessive singular of ēlli; (it is) his, her or its liver.

From Proto-Germanic *hailiją, from *hailaz; compare Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌻𐍃 (hails).

• Krause & Slocum reconstruct IPA^(key): /eːl/[1]

iel

1. life, health
   • 1589, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, letter:

     Iel. Vita sive sanitas.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• iel vburt

Contracted from late Middle Dutch idel, which survives uncontracted as ijdel. An alternative contracted form led to ijl.

• IPA^(key): /il/

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• Hyphenation: iel
• Rhymes: -il

iel (comparative ieler, superlative ielst)

1. thin, slender

• lei

From i- (indeterminate correlative prefix) +‎ -el (correlative suffix of manner or degree).

• IPA^(key): [ˈiel]
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• Rhymes: -iel
• Hyphenation: i‧el

iel

1. somehow, in some way

• iel ajn (“anyhow”)
• iele

• ielle, yel

Blend of il +‎ elle.

• IPA^(key): /jɛl/, /i.ɛl/

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iel gender-neutral (third-person singular, plural iels, accusative lea, dative lui, emphatic ellui, possessive determiner son)

1. (gender-neutral, neologism) they (singular). A gender-neutral singular third-person subject personal pronoun.
   • 2014, Carina Rozenfeld, La Symphonie des abysses, Robert Laffont, book 1:

     […] ; les jours où iels n’avaient pas l’occasion de parler un peu, juste tous les deux, iel se sentait vide.

     […]; on days when they didn't have the opportunity to talk a little, just the two of them, they felt empty.

   • 2016 March 4, Olivia B. Smith, Witch Hunt, Partie 1 : Le Legacy d’Olivia‎:

     Ainsi démarra la journée d’Emil. Iel suivait bien évidement les conseils de sa mère, continuant à affirmer qu’iel était un garçon, ce qui jusque là n’avait jamais été démenti.

     That's how Emil's day started. They naturally followed the advice of their mother and continued to say that they were a boy, which had never been contested until that point.

   • 2017, Cindy Van Wilder, chapter 19, in Les Outrepasseurs, volume 4 Férénusia, Gulf stream éditeur:

     Pour les Ferreux.
     Pour Ferenusia, découvert en même temps qu’Antoinette, quand iel avait débarqué à Paris un an auparavant.
     Pour iel-mêmes [sic], aussi.

     For the Ferrous.
     For Ferenusia, discovered at the same time as Antoinette, when they had arrived in Paris a year earlier.
     For themselves, too.

   • 2019 December 20, “Casbah d’Alger : lettre ouverte à Jean Nouvel”, in L’Humanité‎:

     Tout architecte se doit d’être complètement responsable des conditions et conséquences politiques des projets qu’iel accepte; toute position qui ferait de lui ou d’elle un.e simple exécutant·e constituerait une insulte à sa fonction et à sa capacité d’agir.

     Every architect must be completely responsible for the conditions and political consequences of the projects that they accept; any position which would make him or her a simple executor would constitute an insult to their function and to their ability to act.

• lea
• ellui
• cellui
• elleux
• celleux
• Appendix:Switzerland words of the year#fr-2021

• "Iel/ielles/illes" : pourquoi et comment utiliser ces pronoms "neutres" ?, RTBF, 13 May 2021

• “The online version of the Petit Robert French dictionary has added an entry for a gender-neutral third person pronoun, "iel", also spelled "ielle"”, Language Log, 2021-11-19

• i̯el, ĭel

From Latin ille, possibly through a Vulgar Latin *illus. Compare Aromanian, Romanian el.

iel m sg

1. he

• ieľ

iel

1. Alternative form of el

From Old Frisian ēl, from Proto-West Germanic *āl, from Proto-Germanic *ēlaz. Cognate with English eel, Dutch aal and German Aal.

• IPA^(key): /iə̯l/

iel c (plural ielen, diminutive ieltsje)

1. (countable or uncountable) eel

   Myn hovercraft sit fol mei iel.

   My hovercraft is full of eels.

• “iel (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011