different between vill vs vila

English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman vill, from Old French vile (“farm, country estate”) (French ville (“town”)), from Latin villa.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?l
• IPA^(key): /v?l/

Noun

vill (plural vills)

1. (historical) The smallest administrative unit of land in feudal England, corresponding to the Anglo-Saxon tithing and the modern parish.
2. (obsolete) A villa; a country residence.
   • 1781, Richard Burn, Ecclesiastical Law (volume 1, page 61)

     Sometimes the kings in their country vills and seats of pleasure or retirement built a place of worship, which was the origin of royal free chapels.

Etymology 2

From will

Verb

vill

1. Pronunciation spelling of will.

Usage notes

• Imitating certain accents, such as German.

Central Franconian

Etymology

From Old High German filu, from Proto-Germanic *felu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fil/

Adjective

vill (irregular declension, comparative mieh, superlative et mietste or mieste or mieschte or määste or määschte)

1. much; many

Usage notes

• The adjective is declined regularly after an article or determiner, otherwise it is uninflected.
• The superlative forms et mie(t)ste, mieschte are Ripuarian, the forms et määste, määschte are Moselle Franconian.

Estonian

Noun

vill (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. bladder

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• vill in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German filu, from Proto-Germanic *felu. Cognate with German viel, Dutch veel, English fele.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fil/
• Rhymes: -il

Adjective

vill (masculine vill or villen, neuter vill or villt, comparative méi, superlative am meeschten)

1. much, many

   En huet vill Frënn.

   He has many friends.

Usage notes

• The positive forms are declined regularly after an article or determiner, otherwise they remain uninflected.
• The comparative form is indeclinable and cannot be preceded by articles or determiners.
• The superlative forms are declined in the normal way.

Adverb

vill

1. much, a lot

   Dat Hiem ass vill ze kleng.

   That shirt is much too small.

Manx

Verb

vill

1. past of mill

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse villr, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz. Cognates include English wild.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l?/
• Homophone: vil
• Rhymes: -?l

Adjective

vill (neuter singular vilt, definite singular and plural ville, comparative villere, indefinite superlative villest, definite superlative villeste)

1. wild

Derived terms

References

• “vill” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse villr, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz. Cognates include English wild.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

vill (neuter singular vilt, definite singular and plural ville, comparative villare, indefinite superlative villast, definite superlative villaste)

1. wild

Derived terms

• villdyr
• villmark
• villsvin
• viltlevande

References

• “vill” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Noun

vill m or f

1. rare form of ville

Old Norse

Adjective

vill

1. strong feminine nominative singular of villr
2. strong neuter nominative plural of villr
3. strong neuter accusative plural of villr

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse villr, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz. Doublet of vild (“wild”), which is influenced from Middle Low German.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?l/

Adjective

vill

1. (dated) lost (not knowing place or directions)

Synonyms

• vilsen

Related terms

Verb

vill

1. present tense of vilja.

References

• vill in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish villa.

Noun

vill

1. wool

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian víla and Slovene vila.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?vi?l?/

Noun

vila (plural vilas or vile)

1. (mythology) A type of female nature spirit in Slavic mythology, similar in some ways to a fairy or nymph.
   • 1874, Elodie Lawton Mijatovic, Serbian Folklore:

     "The Vilas (fairies) live there, and they will certainly put out your eyes as they have put out mine, if you venture on their mountain."

   • 1998, Mike Dixon-Kennedy, Encyclopedia of Russian and Slavic Myth and Legend, page 302:

     Duly married, the couple lived for some time in peace and contentment, until one day Marko boasted that his wife was a vila, whereupon she put on her wings and flew away.

Translations

Anagrams

• LAIV, VALI, Vail, Vali, Vial, vail, vali, vial

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin v?lla.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?vi.l?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?bi.l?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?vi.la/

Noun

vila f (plural viles)

1. Settlement, usually with a minimum of five thousand inhabitants (bigger than a town but smaller than a city), that has asked for the title officially. Previously, this title was granted by the king.

Derived terms

• vilatà

Further reading

• “vila” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?v?la]
• Rhymes: -?la

Noun

vila f

1. villa

Declension

Derived terms

• vilka
• vilový

Further reading

• vila in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• vila in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese vila (“village”), from Latin villa (“country house”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?bil?]

Noun

vila f (plural vilas)

1. town; urban settlement smaller than a cidade (“city”) and larger than a aldea (“village”), which usually acts as the economic and administrative capital of a comarca
2. (archaic) village

   Synonym: aldea

3. country house

   Synonym: casa de campo

Derived terms

Related terms

• vilar

References

• “vila” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “vila” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “vila” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “vila” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “vila” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• vilan

Etymology

From Latin vill?nus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vila/

Noun

vila m (oblique plural vilas, nominative singular vilas, nominative plural vila)

1. serf, countryman, peasant
   • c. 1130, Marcabru, pastorela:

     Cerca fols la folatura, / Cortes cortez’ aventura, / E·l vilas ab la vilana [...].

     The fool searches for folly, the gentleman for gentle adventure, and the peasant for his peasant-girl.

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin v?lla (“country house”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i.l?a/

Noun

vila f (plural vilas)

1. village; a small town

   • Como ?anta maria fez de?cobrir h?a po?ta de carne que furtaran a u?s romeus na uila de Rocamador.

     How Holy Mary caused to be found a piece of meat which was stolen from some pilgrims in the village of Rocamadour.

Related terms

• vilão

Descendants

• Galician: vila
• Portuguese: vila

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• villa (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese vila (“village”), from Latin villa (“country house”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /?vi.l?/

Noun

vila f (plural vilas)

1. small town, village
2. country house

   Synonym: casa de campo

3. (Brazil, slang) a low-class residential area, like row houses, but in a self-managed community around a cul-de-sac

Romansch

Alternative forms

• guglia (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran)
• guila (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan)
• aguoglia (Puter, Vallader)
• guoglia (Vallader)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *ac?cla < *ac?cula, diminutive of Latin acus (“needle”).

Noun

vila f (plural vilas)

1. (Sutsilvan) needle

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *vila. Cognate with Bulgarian ???????? (samovila) and ???? (vila, “fairy”), Slovene vila (“fairy living in the forest or in the water”), Old Russian ???? (vila) and Slovak víla (“fairy”). According to Vasmer, non-Slavic cognates include Old Norse veiðr (“hunt”) and Avestan ????????????????????????????????? (vaiieⁱti, “he pursuits, frightens”)>.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???la/
• Hyphenation: vi?la

Noun

víla f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. vila (a type of female nature spirit in Slavic mythology)
2. fairy

Declension

Antonyms

• (good fairy): zla vještica

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin villa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?îla/
• Hyphenation: vi?la

Noun

v?la f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. villa

Declension

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) , “????”, in Etimologi?eskij slovar? russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Oleg Truba?óv, Moscow: Progress

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *vila.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?í?la/

Noun

v?la f

1. vila (a type of female nature spirit in Slavic mythology)
2. fairy

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin villa.

Noun

v?la f

1. villa

Further reading

• “vila”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish

Alternative forms

• hvila (obsolete since 1906)

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hvíld (“rest, pause”), compare Danish hvile (“rest”), Old High German w?la (German Weile), Gothic ???????????????????? (?eila, “interval, time period”), English while.

Noun

vila c

1. a rest; relief from work, activity or exertion
2. a rest; the repose afforded by death
3. (physics) a rest; absence of motion

Declension

Related terms

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish hv?la, from Old Norse hvíla, from Proto-Germanic *hw?lan?, from Proto-Indo-European *k?yeh?-.

Verb

vila (present vilar, preterite vilade, supine vilat, imperative vila)

1. to rest; to relieve, to give rest to
2. to rest; to take a break; to cease working for a little while, to become inactive
3. to rest; to lean or lay
4. to rest; to lie or lean or be supported

Conjugation

Derived terms

Tsonga

Verb

vila

1. to boil

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin villa; compare Italian villa

Noun

vila f (plural vile)

1. house (large), mansion