peil

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch peil (level).

Noun

peil

  1. (Japan, hydrology, in compounds) water level
    Tokyo Peil (TP); Yedogawa Peil (YP); Osaka Peil (OP)

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Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch peyl, a Hollandic variant of peghel, from Old Dutch pegil, from Proto-West Germanic *pagil. Doublet of pegel (icicle).

Noun

peil n (plural peilen, diminutive peiltje n)

  1. (literal or figurative) level
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

peil

  1. inflection of peilen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

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German

Pronunciation

Verb

peil

  1. singular imperative of peilen

Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *pel, from Latin pila.

Pronunciation

Noun

peil f (genitive singular peile, nominative plural peileanna)

  1. football (game, physical ball)
  2. Gaelic football

Declension

Declension of peil (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative peil peileanna
vocative a pheil a pheileanna
genitive peile peileanna
dative peil peileanna
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an pheil na peileanna
genitive na peile na bpeileanna
dative leis an bpeil
don pheil
leis na peileanna

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Mutation

Mutated forms of peil
radical lenition eclipsis
peil pheil bpeil

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