Eil
East Central German
editEtymology
editNoun
editEil f (plural Eiln)
Related terms
editReferences
edit2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch[1], 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 37:
Further reading
edit- Alte und neue Gedichte und Geschichten in erzgebirgischer Mundart, 12. Heft., P. 5
German
editNoun
editEil f
- (poetic) Apocopic form of Eile
- 1797, August Wilhelm Schlegel, transl., Ein Sommernachtstraum[2], translation of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, [Act I, scene i]:
- Nun rückt, Hippolyta, die Hochzeitsstunde / Mit Eil heran; vier frohe Tage bringen / Den neuen Mond; doch, o wie langsam nimmt / Der alte ab!
- Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour / Draws on apace; four happy days bring in / Another moon: but, O, methinks, how slow / This old moon wanes!
Luxembourgish
editAlternative forms
edit- Échel (dated)
Etymology
editFrom Old High German ūwila, from Proto-Germanic *uwwalǭ. Cognate with German Eule, Dutch uil, English owl, Icelandic ugla.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editEil f (plural Eilen)
Pennsylvania German
editEtymology 1
editCompare German Eule, Dutch uil, English owl.
Noun
editEil f (plural Eile)
Etymology 2
editCompare German Eile, Dutch ijl.
Noun
editEil f
Plautdietsch
editNoun
editEil f (plural Eile)
- barley bread
Noun
editEil n
Rhine Franconian
editAlternative forms
editNoun
editEil f (plural Eile)
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