eile

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Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *eklen. Cognate with Finnish eilen and Votic egle.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈei̯le/,
  • Rhymes: -eile
  • Hyphenation: ei‧le

Adverb

eile (not comparable)

  1. yesterday

References

  • eile in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
  • eile”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʔaɪ̯lə/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪ̯lə

Verb

eile

  1. inflection of eilen:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish aile (second, (an)other), from Proto-Celtic *alyos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos (other, out of a group of more than two), from *h₂el- (beyond).

Adjective

eile

  1. other, another; next, more, else
    Aithníonn ciaróg ciaróg eile. (proverb)
    It takes one to know one.
    (literally, “A beetle recognizes another beetle.”)

Adverb

eile

  1. else

Etymology 2

Adjective

eile

  1. alternative form of uile (all, every; all, whole)

Noun

eile f (indeclinable)

  1. alternative form of uile (all)

Adverb

eile

  1. alternative form of uile (all, wholly, entirely)

Mutation

Mutated forms of eile
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
eile n-eile heile not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish aile, eile, oile (second, other, another), from Proto-Celtic *alyos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos (other, out of a group of more than two), from *h₂el- (beyond).

Pronunciation

Adjective

eile

  1. other, another, else
    Tha faclair eile agam.I have another/a different dictionary.
    'S e sin rudeigin eile.That's something else.
    A bheil searrag eile agaibh?Do you have another/one more flask?

Derived terms

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “eile”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language