fille

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French

Etymology

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fij/
  • (file)
  • (Quebec) IPA(key):

Noun

fille f (plural filles)

  1. girl
    Coordinate term: garçon
    Toutes les filles n’aiment pas jouer avec des poupées.Not all girls like playing with dolls.
  2. daughter
    Coordinate term: fils
    Je vous présente mes fils, Gérard-Marcel et Pierre-Vincent, et mes filles, Marie-Léonore et Jacqueline-Hélène.
    May I introduce you to my sons, Gérard-Marcel and Pierre-Vincent, and my daughters, Marie-Léonore and Jacqueline-Hélène.
  3. (slang) prostitute, wench
    Il buvait et courait les filles avant qu’il ne contracte la cirrhose et la blennorragie.He drank and consorted with hookers before contracting cirrhosis and gonorrhea.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Haitian Creole: fi
  • Louisiana Creole: fiy

Further reading

Galician

Verb

fille

  1. inflection of fillar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Irish

Verb

fille

  1. present subjunctive analytic of fill

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fille fhille bhfille
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English fyll, fyllu, from Proto-West Germanic *fullī, from Proto-Germanic *fullį̄. For forms with /u/, see fulle.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɛl(ə)/, /ˈfil(ə)/

Noun

fille (uncountable)

  1. A sufficient amount; the state of satiation.
  2. A desired amount; the state of satisfaction.
  3. Profusion, surfeit; a state of plenty.
Descendants
References

Etymology 2

From Old English fille, an aphetic form of ċerfille.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

fille (plural filles)

  1. Chervil (Anthriscus cerefolium)
  2. Something of little value.
References

Etymology 3

Verb

fille

  1. Alternative form of fillen

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French fille, from Latin fīlia.

Noun

fille f (plural filles)

  1. daughter (female child)
  2. girl

Descendants

  • French: fille
    • Haitian Creole: fi
    • Louisiana Creole: fiy

Norman

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French fille, from Latin fīlia.

Noun

fille f (plural filles)

  1. (Jersey, Guernsey) daughter
    Coordinate term: fils
  2. (Jersey, Guernsey) girl

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse filla (skinn).

Noun

fille f or m (definite singular filla or fillen, indefinite plural filler, definite plural fillene)

  1. a rag

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse filla (skin), compare Dutch vel.

Noun

fille f (definite singular filla, indefinite plural filler, definite plural fillene)

  1. a rag

Synonyms

Derived terms

References

Old French

Etymology

From Latin fīlia(m).

Pronunciation

Noun

fille oblique singularf (oblique plural filles, nominative singular fille, nominative plural filles)

  1. daughter (female child)
  2. girl

Related terms

Descendants

Pennsylvania German

Etymology 1

Compare German füllen, Dutch vullen, English fill.

Verb

fille

  1. to fill
  2. to farce

Etymology 2

Verb

fille

  1. to foal

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɪlə/
  • Hyphenation: fil‧le

Verb

fille

  1. (transitive) to skin
  2. (transitive) to deceive

Conjugation

References

  • Marron C. Fort (2015) “fille”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN