jel

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See also: -jél and jěł

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Clipping of jealous

Pronunciation

Adjective

jel (comparative more jel, superlative most jel)

  1. (UK, slang) jealous
    Synonym: jelly

Czech

Pronunciation

Participle

jel

  1. masculine singular past active participle of jet

Epigraphic Mayan

Verb

jel

  1. to change

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *jelkä (“trace”). Cognates include Finnish jälki and Estonian jälg.

Pronunciation

Noun

jel (plural jelek)

  1. sign, symbol
  2. (grammar) non-terminal marker, inflectional suffix or affix (termination) marking a morphological feature of a word that does not change its syntactic role (including tense: past/future vs. present, number: plural vs. singular, degree: comparative/superlative vs. positive, mood: conditional/subjunctive vs. indicative, possession: my/your/etc., ownership: -é, and specification: -ik)
    Hypernym: toldalék
    Coordinate terms: képző, rag

Declension

Note: the primary accusative form is jelet; the shorter variant is mostly found in the phrase jelt ad (“to signal”) only.

Inflection of jel
singular plural
nominative jel jelek
accusative jelet
jelt 		jeleket
dative jelnek jeleknek
instrumental jellel jelekkel
causal-final jelért jelekért
translative jellé jelekké
terminative jelig jelekig
essive-formal jelként jelekként
essive-modal jelül —
inessive jelben jelekben
superessive jelen jeleken
adessive jelnél jeleknél
illative jelbe jelekbe
sublative jelre jelekre
allative jelhez jelekhez
elative jelből jelekből
delative jelről jelekről
ablative jeltől jelektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		jelé jeleké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		jeléi jelekéi
Possessive forms of jel
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. jelem jeleim
2nd person sing. jeled jeleid
3rd person sing. jele jelei
1st person plural jelünk jeleink
2nd person plural jeletek jeleitek
3rd person plural jelük jeleik

Derived terms

Compound words with this term at the beginning
Compound words with this term at the end
Expressions

Further reading

  • jel 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

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Latvian

Etymology

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Adverb

jel

  1. do (imperative)

Livonian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *elo. Cognates include Finnish elo.

Noun

jel

  1. life

Mopan Maya

Noun

jel

  1. substitute, successor, replacement

References

  • Hofling, Charles Andrew (2011). Mopan Maya–Spanish–English Dictionary, University of Utah Press.

Old French

Alternative forms

Contraction

jel

  1. Contraction of je + le (I it)

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from English gel

Pronunciation

Noun

jel (definite accusative jeli, plural jeller)

  1. gel

Yucatec Maya

Noun

jel

  1. direction
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