kile

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See also: Kile, kilé, kilè, kilë, and kiłę

English

Etymology

From Middle English kile, kyle, kylle, from Old Norse kýli (“boil”), from Proto-Germanic *kūlǭ, *kūlijǭ (“boil”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewl- (“vessel, bowl, ball”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend, curve, vault”). Cognate with Icelandic kýli (“wen, boil”), Swedish kula (“boil, bulge; pit”), Danish kule (“boil, bump; pit”), German Keule (“club”), German Kuhle (“hollow”), Dutch kuil (“pit, hole”). See also keel.

Pronunciation

Noun

kile (plural kiles)

  1. An ulcer; sore.

Anagrams

Breton

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Pronunciation

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Noun

kile ?

  1. associate, colleague, sidekick, stooge

Further reading

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

kile

  1. locative singular of kilo

Danish

Pronunciation

Noun

kile c (singular definite kilen, plural indefinite kiler)

  1. wedge
  2. gusset

Inflection

Declension of kile
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative kile kilen kiler kilerne
genitive kiles kilens kilers kilernes

Verb

kile (imperative kil, infinitive at kile, present tense kiler, past tense kilede, perfect tense har kilet)

  1. wedge

Further reading

Kapampangan

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kiray

Noun

kilé

  1. eyebrow

Kumak

Etymology

From French clé.

Noun

kile

  1. key

References

  • Claire Moyse-Faurie, Borrowings from Romance languages in Oceanic languages, in Aspects of Language Contact (2008) →ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology 1

From Middle Low German kil; compare with German Keil. The verb is derived from the noun.

Noun

kile m (definite singular kilen, indefinite plural kiler, definite plural kilene)

  1. a wedge or chock

Verb

kile (present tense kiler, past tense kilte, past participle kilt)

  1. (transitive) to wedge

Etymology 2

From Old Norse kitla, from Proto-Germanic *kitilōną.

Alternative forms

Verb

kile (present tense kiler, past tense kilte, past participle kilt)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to tickle

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German kil.

Noun

kile m (definite singular kilen, indefinite plural kilar, definite plural kilane)

  1. a wedge or chock

References

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈki.lɛ/
  • Rhymes: -ilɛ
  • Syllabification: ki‧le

Noun

kile f

  1. dative/locative singular of kiła

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

kile (Cyrillic spelling киле)

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

Slovak

Pronunciation

Noun

kile

  1. locative singular of kilo

Slovene

Noun

kile

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

Swahili

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Kenya)(file)

Adjective

kile

  1. Ki class inflected form of -le.

Tatar

Noun

kile

  1. mortar
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