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See also: -iel

Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈíːjeːɬ]

Noun

īēl inan

1. third-person singular possessive singular of ēlli; (it is) his, her or its liver.

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Crimean Gothic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hailiją, from *hailaz; compare Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌻𐍃 (hails).

Pronunciation

• Krause & Slocum reconstruct IPA^(key): /eːl/

Noun

iel

1. life, health
   • 1589, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, letter:

     Iel. Vita sive sanitas.

Derived terms

• iel vburt

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Dutch

Etymology

Contracted from late Middle Dutch idel, which survives uncontracted as ijdel. An alternative contracted form led to ijl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /il/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: iel
• Rhymes: -il

Adjective

iel (comparative ieler, superlative ielst)

1. thin, slender

Inflection

Declension of iel
uninflected	iel
inflected	iele
comparative	ieler
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		iel	ieler	het ielst het ielste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	iele	ielere	ielste
	n. sing.	iel	ieler	ielste
	plural	iele	ielere	ielste
definite		iele	ielere	ielste
partitive		iels	ielers	—

Anagrams

• lei

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Esperanto

Etymology

From i- (indeterminate correlative prefix) +‎ -el (correlative suffix of manner or degree).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• IPA^(key): [ˈiel]
• Rhymes: -iel
• Hyphenation: i‧el

Adverb

iel

1. somehow, in some way

Derived terms

• iel ajn (“anyhow”)
• iele

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French

Alternative forms

• ielle

Etymology

Blend of il +‎ elle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɛl/, /i.ɛl/

• Audio:

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• IPA^(key): /ijɛlə/

Pronoun

iel (third-person singular, plural iels, accusative lea, dative lui, emphatic ellui)

1. (gender-neutral, neologism) they (singular). A gender-neutral singular third-person subject personal pronoun, where the person referenced is transgender and/or non-binary
   • 2014, Carina Rozenfeld, La Symphonie des abysses, Robert Laffont, book 1:

     […] ; les jours où iels n’avaient pas l’occasion de parler un peu, juste tous les deux, iel se sentait vide.

     ; on days when they didn't have the opportunity to talk a little, just the two of them, they felt empty.

   • 2016 March 4, Olivia B. Smith, Witch Hunt, Partie 1 : Le Legacy d’Olivia‎^[1]:

     Ainsi démarra la journée d’Emil. Iel suivait bien évidement les conseils de sa mère, continuant à affirmer qu’iel était un garçon, ce qui jusque là n’avait jamais été démenti.

     That's how Emil's day started. They naturally followed the advice of their mother and continued to say that they were a boy, which had never been contested until that point.

   • 2017, Cindy Van Wilder, chapter 19, in Les Outrepasseurs, volume 4 Férénusia, Gulf stream éditeur:

     Pour les Ferreux.
     Pour Ferenusia, découvert en même temps qu’Antoinette, quand iel avait débarqué à Paris un an auparavant.
     Pour iel-mêmes, aussi.

     For the Ferrous.
     For Ferenusia, discovered at the same time as Antoinette, when they had arrived in Paris a year earlier.
     For themself, too.

2. (gender-neutral, neologism) they (singular), s/he, he or she. A gender-neutral singular third-person subject personal pronoun, where the gender of the person referenced is irrelevant or unknown.
   • 2019 December 20, "Casbah d’Alger : lettre ouverte à Jean Nouvel" L’Humanité:

     Tout architecte se doit d'être complètement responsable des conditions et conséquences politiques des projets qu’iel accepte; toute position qui ferait de lui ou d’elle un.e simple exécutant·e constituerait une insulte à sa fonction et à sa capacité d’agir.

See also

• lea
• ellui
• cellui
• elleux
• celleux

References

• "Iel/ielles/illes" : pourquoi et comment utiliser ces pronoms "neutres" ?, RTBF, 13 May 2021

Further reading

• “The online version of the Petit Robert French dictionary has added an entry for a gender-neutral third person pronoun, "iel", also spelled "ielle"”, Language Log, 2021-11-19

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Middle English

Noun

iel

1. Alternative form of el

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West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian ēl, from Proto-West Germanic *āl, from Proto-Germanic *ēlaz. Cognate with English eel, Dutch aal and German Aal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iə̯l/

Noun

iel c (plural ielen, diminutive ieltsje)

1. (countable or uncountable) eel

   Myn hovercraft sit fol mei iel.

   My hovercraft is full of eels.

Further reading

• “iel (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011