elles

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See also: êlles and ellēs

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin illās, accusative feminine plural of ille.

Pronoun

elles f pl

  1. they (female)

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin illās, accusative feminine plural of ille.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

elles

  1. they (feminine)

See also

Danish

Noun

elles c

  1. indefinite genitive plural of el

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French eles, from Latin illās, accusative feminine plural of ille.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

elles f pl (third-person plural, singular elle, accusative les, dative leur, emphatic elles, possessive determiner leur)

  1. they (female)
  2. them (female)

Related terms

Noun

elles f

  1. plural of elle

Further reading

Anagrams

Hungarian

Etymology

el- (away, off) +‎ les (to spy, peep, peek)

Pronunciation

Verb

elles

  1. (transitive) to learn by watching, to acquire by (close and often secret) observation (from someone: -tól/-től)
    • 1862, Imre Madách, The Tragedy of Man, translation by J.C.W. Horne, Iain MacLeod, and George Szirtes, Scene 1:
      Nehány golyóba összevissza gyúrva, / Most vonzza, űzi és taszítja egymást, / Nehány féregben öntudatra kél, / Míg minden megtelt, míg minden kihűlt, / És megmarad a semleges salak. – / Az ember ezt, ha egykor ellesi, / Vegykonyhájában szintén megteszi.
      That a few spheres this way or that revolve, / That one attracts another or repels, / That in a few worms dawns a consciousness, / Till all be fulfilled and till all grow cold / And only indistinguishable dust remain? / Why, man too, almost, if he should but learn, / Might in his kitchen seethe as good a broth
      Meanwhile this matter, kneaded into globes, / unfolds, attracts, repulses, whirls around, / till in some beast a conscious thought is kindled… / Then all fulfilled and all its heat expended, / indifferent, the neutral dust remains. / One day, man may himself acquire the knack / and plagiarize this crude experiment
      Are now screwed up into these tiny globes / That chase, attract or else repel each other, / Awaking a few worms to consciousness / Till all of space is tilled at last, grows cold, / And only the indifferent slag is left? / If man’s at all observant he’ll concoct / Some hash like this with his poor instruments.

Conjugation

Further reading

  • elles in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • elles in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

Latvian

Noun

elles f

  1. inflection of elle:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/vocative/accusative plural

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English elles, from Proto-West Germanic *alljas.

Pronunciation

Adjective

elles

  1. else

Adverb

elles

  1. else

Conjunction

elles

  1. else

Descendants

  • English: else
  • Yola: elles

References

Middle French

Pronoun

elles f pl

  1. they (female).
  2. them (female).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From eller (or).

Pronunciation

Adverb

elles

  1. (conjunctive) else, otherwise
    Det lyt du gjera, elles går dette gale.
    You have to do that, else this will go wrong.

References

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *alljas

Adverb

elles

  1. else
    • late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Seven Sleepers"
      ...ac mē tōdæġ swā wundorlīce is ġelumpen þæt ic þurh nān þincg ne mæġ ġecnāwan hwæðer þys sȳ Ephesa byriġ þe elles ǣniġ ōþer;...
      But to-day it has befallen me so wonderfully that I cannot by any means recognise whether this be the city of the Ephesians or else any other.

References

Portuguese

Pronoun

elles m pl

  1. Obsolete spelling of eles

Noun

elles m

  1. Obsolete spelling of eles

Spanish

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈeʝes/
  • IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /ˈeʎes/
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈeʃes/
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈeʒes/

 
  • (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -eʝes
  • (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -eʎes
  • (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -eʃes
  • (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -eʒes

  • Syllabification: e‧lles

Pronoun

elles gender-neutral pl

  1. (gender-neutral, neologism) they; a gender-neutral plural third-person personal pronoun
    • 2019, Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales, Derechos humanos en la Argentina: Informe 2019, Siglo XXI Editores, →ISBN:
      Elles integraron los organismos junto a activistas que si bien no tenían parientes desaparecides se sumaron por trayectorias militantes y profesionales.
      They were part of the organizations along with activists who, although they had no relatives who had disappeared, joined them through militant and professional trajectories.
  2. plural of elle

See also

Noun

elles f pl

  1. plural of elle

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English elles, from Old English elles, from Proto-West Germanic *alljas.

Pronunciation

Adjective

elles

  1. else

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 38