hil

Clipping of English, Hiligaynon, and Tagalog Hiligaynon.

hil

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Hiligaynon.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Hiligaynon terms

From Persian هل (hel).

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hil (definite accusative hili, plural hillər)

1. cardamom

• IPA^(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /hil/ [hil]
• IPA^(key): (Southern) /il/ [il]
• Rhymes: -il
• Hyphenation: hil

From Proto-Basque *(h)iLe (“moon, month”).^[1]

hil inan

1. month (a period into which a year is divided)

Inherited from Proto-Basque *(h)iL.^[2]

hil (comparative hilago, superlative hilen, excessive hilegi)

1. deceased
2. (figurative) faint, tenuous

hil inan or anim

1. death
2. dead person

hil da/du (imperfect participle hiltzen, future participle hilko or hilen, short form hil, verbal noun hiltze)

1. (intransitive) to die

   Synonym: zendu

2. (transitive) to kill
3. (transitive) to murder

   Synonym: erail

• “hil”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “hil”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

From Proto-Brythonic *hil, from Proto-Celtic *sīlom.

hil m (plural hilyow)

1. race, ethnicity

   Synonym: agh

• hilegydh
• hilgaswas

• hul

From Middle Dutch hil, hille, from Old Dutch *hul, hil, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hulliz (“stone, rock”), from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥Hnís (“top, hill, rock”).

Cognate to English hill, Middle Dutch hulle (“hill”), Low German hull (“hill”), Icelandic hóll (“hill”). Related to holm.

hil m (plural hillen, diminutive hilletje n)

1. (archaic) hill, elevation

   Synonyms: heuvel, hoogte

hil

1. h-prothesized form of il

From Old English hyll, from Proto-Germanic *hulliz (“hill”).

• hyl, hille, hylle, hul, hulle, helle

• IPA^(key): /hil/

hil (plural hiles)

1. hill

• English: hill
• Scots: hill, hull
• Yola: hele, hile, hill

• “hil(le, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

hil (hiles)

1. alternative form of hyl (“mound”)

hil

1. alternative form of hilen (“to cover”)

hil

1. alternative form of il

Borrowed from French hile, from Latin hilum.

hil n (plural hiluri)

1. hilum

hil (genitive hila, plural hils)

1. heel

From Proto-Brythonic *hil, from Proto-Celtic *sīlom (“seed”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow”). Cognate with Cornish hil (“race”), Irish síol (“seed; race”), Latin sēmen (“seed”), English sow.

• IPA^(key): /hiːl/
• Rhymes: -iːl

hil f (plural hilion, not mutable)

1. seed, issue, progeny

   Synonyms: had, hiliogaeth, epil, disgynyddion, eisillydd

2. lineage, descent

   Synonyms: cyff, tras, llinach, gwehelyth

3. race, ethnicity

   Synonyms: cyff, ethnigedd, ethnigrwydd

• gwehilion (“scum, dregs”)
• hiliaeth (“racism”)
• hiliog (“prolific”)

• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “hil”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “hil”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies