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English

Etymology

Of North Germanic origin, from Swedish fil. Also related to Finnish viili.

Noun

fil (uncountable)

1. A Nordic dairy product, similar to yogurt, but using different bacteria which give a different taste and texture.

Anagrams

• LIF, lif

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic ????? (f?l).

Noun

fil (definite accusative fili, plural fill?r)

1. elephant
2. (chess) bishop

Declension

See also

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin f?lum, from Proto-Indo-European *g??iH-(s-)lo-.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?fil/
• Rhymes: -il

Noun

fil m (plural fils)

1. thread, wire
2. (Internet) discussion thread

   Synonym: tema

Derived terms

• fil d'aram

Related terms

• filar

Further reading

• “fil” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “fil” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “fil” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fil” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin f?lum.

Noun

fil m

1. thread, yarn, string

Related terms

• filur

Danish

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German v?le, from Old Saxon fila, from Proto-Germanic *finhl?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi?l/, [fi??l]
• Rhymes: -i?l

Noun

fil c (singular definite filen, plural indefinite file)

1. file (tool)

Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English file (“an aggregation of data”) (1962).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi?l/, [fi??l]

Noun

fil c (singular definite filen, plural indefinite filer)

1. file (computer terminology)

Declension

Etymology 3

See file.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi?l/, [fi??l]

Verb

fil

1. imperative of file

French

Etymology

From Old French fil, from Latin f?lum, from Proto-Indo-European *g??iH-(s-)lo-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fil/
• Homophones: file, filent, files, fils, Phil, -phile
• Rhymes: -il

Noun

fil m (plural fils)

1. yarn, thread, wire

2. grain (of wood etc.)
3. edge (of blade, razor etc.)

Descendants

• ? English: file (“collection of papers”) (see there for further descendants)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “fil” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

fil m (invariable)

1. Apocopic form of filo

Judeo-Tat

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?l/

Noun

fil

1. elephant

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (f?l).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi?l/

Noun

fil m (plural fjiel)

1. (archaic) elephant

   Synonym: iljunfant

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi?l/
• Rhymes: -i?l

Noun

fil f or m (definite singular fila or filen, indefinite plural filer, definite plural filene)

1. A file.
2. A hand tool used for removing sharp edges or for cutting, especially through metal.
3. A section of roadway for a single line of vehicles, a lane.

Derived terms

• tekstfil

References

• “fil” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “fil_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “fil_3” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Swedish, from Old French. In the sense of a "computer file" it is borrowed from English file. Both the English and Swedish origins ultimately derive from Latin filum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi?l/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

fil f (definite singular fila, indefinite plural filer, definite plural filene)

1. (computing) a file
2. (driving) a lane

Usage notes

Until 1983, this noun was also considered masculine.

Derived terms

• datafil
• køyrefil

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi?l/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

fil f (definite singular fila, indefinite plural filer, definite plural filene)

1. a file (a hand tool)

Etymology 3

Possibly shortened from Danish pamfilius. However, it might also be a native clipping of pamfil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi?l/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

fil f (definite singular fila, indefinite plural filer, definite plural filene)

1. (card games) knave (esp. of clubs)

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

fil

1. imperative of file

References

• “fil” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• fli

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin f?lium, accusative singular of f?lius. The nominative form fiz, fils (whence modern French fils), derives from the Latin nominative.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi?/

Noun

fil m (oblique plural fiz or filz, nominative singular fiz or filz, nominative plural fil)

1. son (male child)

Descendants

• Bourguignon: fi
• Walloon: fi

See filz for descendants from the nominative singular inflection.

Etymology 2

From Latin f?lum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fil/

Noun

fil m (oblique plural fis, nominative singular fis, nominative plural fil)

1. thread (fine strand of material)

Descendants

• French: fil

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• fail, feil, fel
• fele, file (relative)

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *wele (“see!”), the imperative of Proto-Celtic *weleti (“see”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“see”), compare Welsh gweled (“to see”). Semantic development from "see!" to "there is" is parallel to that of French voici, from vois ci (“see here”) and voilà, from vois là (“see there”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?il?/

Verb

·fil

1. present progressive conjunct of at·tá
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 19^c20

fil

1. third-person singular present progressive relative of at·tá
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 114^b18

Usage notes

In the conjunct form, the logical subject appears in the accusative (or as an infixed object pronoun) in the oldest language. Examples:

• cinin·fil (“although we are not”)
• condib·feil (“so that you pl are”)
• má nudub·feil (“if you pl are”)
• nícon·?il nach rainn (“there is no part”)
• nín·fil (“we are not”)

Related terms

• do·fil

Descendants

• Irish: bhfuil, níl
• Manx: vel, nel
• Scottish Gaelic: bheil, eil

Mutation

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• phil (alternative spelling)

Etymology

Apocopic form of filo or fillo. Perhaps influenced by forms akin to Old Occitan fil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?il]

Noun

fil m (plural filos or fillos)

1. Apocopic form of filo, son, child
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 14v.

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• f?lj

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (fil) (modern Turkish fil), from Arabic ????? (f?l), from Middle Persian pyl (p?l), from Akkadian ???????? (p?ru). Akin to fìldiš.

Pronunciation

• (f?l): IPA^(key): /fîl/
• (f?l): IPA^(key): /fî?l/

Noun

f?l m (Cyrillic spelling ????) orf?l m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (regional) elephant

Declension

Synonyms

• (elephant): sl?n

References

• “fil” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
• Škalji?, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 283
• “fil”, in ?????? ???????????????? ????????? ?????? (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 6, ????? ?????????? ?????? edition, ???? ???, ??????: ?????? ??????, ?????? ????????, 1967–1976, published 1990, page 668

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German v?le, from Old Saxon fila, from Proto-Germanic *finhl?. Cognate with English file and German Feile.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi?l/

Noun

fil c

1. a file (a tool)

Declension

Related terms

• bågfil
• fila
• filare
• filklove
• filning
• filspån
• järnfil

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “French file?”).

Row and lane (a row of vehicles) is one etymology, but as English file suggests computer file has a different etymology. However, the Swedish computer file is sometimes explained as a row of bytes, in attempt to shoehorn this new English loanword into the etymology of the existing word.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi?l/

Noun

fil c

1. a row of objects; most commonly used about moving objects
2. a section of roadway for a single line of vehicles, a lane
3. file (in computer technology)

Declension

Related terms

row

• defilera

lane

• filkörning
• filmarkering

computer file

• fildelare
• fildelning
• filformat
• filhanterare
• filkatalog
• filnamn

Etymology 3

Related to Icelandic þél (“fermented milk”), from Old Norse þéttr (“dense, tight”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi?l/

Noun

fil c (uncountable)

1. any product from a family of various (deliberately) soured milk products
2. abbreviation for filmjölk; a particular kind of fil as above

Declension

Related terms

• filbunke
• filmjölk
• filpaket
• gräddfil
• långfil
• lättfil

References

• Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Swedish Academy Dictionary]?^[1] (in Swedish), 1937
• fil in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• lif

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English field.

Noun

fil

1. sportsfield

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (fil), from Arabic ????? (f?l), from Persian ???? (p?l) (and from alternate Ottoman Turkish ???? (pil), directly from Persian ???? (p?l)), from Akkadian ???????? (p?ru), related to Egyptian ?bw (root of English elephant).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fil/

Noun

fil (definite accusative fili, plural filler)

1. elephant
2. (chess) bishop

Declension

Uzbek

Noun

fil (plural fillar)

1. elephant
2. (chess) bishop

Declension

Volapük

Noun

fil (nominative plural fils)

1. fire

Declension

Derived terms

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi?l/

Noun

fil

1. soft mutation of mil

Westrobothnian

Noun

fil

1. Snivel.

Related terms

• fiil

Etymology

Compare Icelandic þél (“thickened milk.”) Related to tjett (“dense.”)

Noun

fil

1. A kind of fermented and soured milk.

Declension

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English til, from Old English til (“to, until”), possibly from Old Norse til, both from Proto-Germanic *til? (“goal”), or Proto-Germanic *til (“to, towards”). Compare to Old Frisian til.

Alternative forms

• 'til

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?l, t?l, IPA^(key): /t?l/, /t?l/
• Rhymes: -?l, -?l

Conjunction

til

1. (colloquial) until, till

Preposition

til

1. (colloquial) until, till
2. (archaic) ~ to: as far as; down to; up to, until

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• teel

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?l/, /ti?l/

Noun

til (plural tils)

1. The sesame plant
2. A species of tree in the Lauraceae family, native to Madeira and the Canary Islands; Ocotea foetens.

See also

• til seed

Anagrams

• &lit, Lit, TLI, lit, lit.

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *d?l.

Noun

til

1. tongue
2. language

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[2], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse til, from Proto-Germanic *til? (“goal”), cognate with Swedish till (“to”), English till, German Ziel n (“goal”). The preposition has arisen from an adverbial use of the noun, lit. "(with) the goal of something". In Old Norse, the preposition governs the genitive, a usage which is preserved in certain fixed phrased in Danish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te(l)/, [t?el], [t?e]

Preposition

til

1. to, towards (direction or goal of a physical movement)
2. towards (the way a thing is turned)
3. to, until (the upper limit)

4. for (the purpose or the beneficiary)

5. into, interested in (especially sexually)

6. at (at a certain point in time, with certain nouns)

7. by, by (not later than)

8. (together) with (e.g. accompanying food)

9. on, by (the mean of transportation)

Archaic case forms

• The preposition governed the genitive in Old Norse and Old Danish. This usage is preserved in several fixed phrases (always with the noun in the indefinite singular):

• In many phrases, the noun ends in -e, which is either 1) an old genitive plural (Old Norse -a), 2) an old genitive singular in a different declension (Old Norse -ar), or 3) an old dative singular (Old Norse -i), analogically after other case relict phrases:

Adverb

til

1. more, additional, another

2. to, having as destination

3. such that something is caused to be in a fitting state
   • 2015, Christine Proksch, Turen Går Til Wien, Politikens Forlag ?ISBN

   • 2008, Selvstyrende team - ledelse og organisation, Samfundslitteratur ?ISBN, page 35

4. such that some pathway or cavity is blocked

5. with force

Conjunction

til

1. till, until

References

• “til” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

til f (plural tillen, diminutive tilletje n)

1. dovecote

   Synonyms: duiventil, columbarium, duivenhuis

2. (dialectal) bridge, typically a small wooden bridge made of planks
3. (dated) cage trap for catching birds

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

til

1. first-person singular present indicative of tillen
2. imperative of tillen

Dutch Low Saxon

Noun

til

1. bridge

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse til, from Proto-Germanic *tila- (“goal”), from Proto-Indo-European *ád (“near, at”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?i?l/
• Rhymes: -i?l

Preposition

til

1. (with accusative or with genitive) to, towards

Derived terms

• til-

Conjunction

til

1. until

Gothic

Romanization

til

1. Romanization of ????????????

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse til, from Proto-Germanic *tila- (“goal”), from Proto-Indo-European *ád (“near, at”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??(?)l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Preposition

til

1. (governs the genitive) to, towards

Derived terms

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English till.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /til/

Preposition

til

1. until, till (in time)
2. to, up to, as far as (in space)

Derived terms

Interjection

til

1. Short for til rivido (“goodbye”).

Marshallese

Etymology

From Proto-Micronesian *sulu, from Proto-Oceanic *suluq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *suluq. Cognate with Cebuano sulo, Tagalog sulo, Malay suluh, Palauan tuich.

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [t?il?]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /t?il?/
• Bender phonemes: {til}

Noun

til

1. a torch

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Middle English

Alternative forms

• tylle

Etymology

From Old English til (“to, until”), possibly from Old Norse til, both from Proto-Germanic *tila- (“goal”), or Proto-Germanic *til (“to, towards”). Cognate with Old Norse til, Old Frisian til.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /til/

Conjunction

til

1. until, till

Descendants

• English: til, till
• Scots: til
• Yola: del

References

• “til, conj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Preposition

til

1. until, till
2. (with "to") as far as; down to; up to, until

Descendants

• English: til, till
• Scots: til
• Yola: del

References

• “til, prep.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Adverb

til

1. to

References

• “til, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Northern Kurdish

Noun

til f

1. finger (extremity of the hand)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse til, from Proto-Germanic *tila- (“goal”), from Proto-Indo-European *ád (“near, at”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Preposition

til

1. to

Derived terms

References

• “til” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse til, from Proto-Germanic *tila- (“goal”), from Proto-Indo-European *ád (“near, at”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?l?/ (example of pronunciation)

Preposition

til

1. to (indicating destination)

2. for

3. of (indicating possession)

4. until

Adverb

til

1. another, one more

Derived terms

• endåtil
• få til
• tilflukt
• tilfrosen

References

• “til” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /til/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *tila-, whence also Old Frisian til, Old High German zil (German Ziel), Old Norse tilr, Gothic ???????????? (til).

Adjective

til

1. good (morally good; competent; useful, etc.)

Declension

Noun

til n (nominative plural tilas)

1. use, service, convenience

2. goodness, kindness

Etymology 2

Possibly from Old Norse til though the OED has it as "Germanic" and related to Old Norse til and to Old Frisian til

Preposition

til

1. to, until, unto
   • c. 800, Ruthwell Cross, found in Ruthwell, Scotland.

Descendants

• Middle English: til, tylle
  • English: til, till
  • Scots: til
  • Yola: del

References

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *til? (“goal”). Cognate with Old English til, Old Frisian til, German Ziel n (“goal”). The preposition has arisen from an adverbial use of the noun, lit. "(with) the goal of something"; this is also the reason it takes the genitive.

Preposition

til

1. (with genitive) to, towards

Descendants

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “till”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

• til in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “til” in: Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon — An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Occitan tille, from Latin titulus. Doublet of título.

Pronunciation

• Homophone: tio (Brazil, ignoring syllable breaks)
• Hyphenation: til
• Rhymes: -il, -iw

Noun

til m (plural tis or tiles)

1. tilde, a diacritic (˜). Used in Portuguese to indicate a nasal vowel.
2. trifle (something of little importance or worth)

Uzbek

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *d?l.

Noun

til (plural tillar)

1. tongue
2. language

Declension