lil
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɪl/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪl
- Homophone: Lil
Noun
lil (plural lils)
- (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
Aleut
Pronunciation
- (Western) IPA(key): /ˈlil/
References
- 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈlɪl]
Irish
Lushootseed
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.
Volapük
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