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See also: Feil, fẹil, and féil

Azerbaijani

Alternative forms

  • feʼl (superseded)

Etymology

From Arabic فِعْل (fiʕl).

Pronunciation

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Noun

feil (definite accusative feili, plural feillər)

  1. (grammar) verb
    təsirli və təsirsiz feillərtransitive and intransitive verbs
    feilin şəxsə görə dəyişməsiverb conjugation for person
    feilin məsdərithe infinitive form of the verb
    feil formasıgrammatical mood
    təfəkkür feilləriverbs of cognition
    hərəkət feilləriverbs of motion
    nitq feilləriverbs of speech

Declension

More information singular, plural ...
More information nominative, singular ...
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Dutch

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French faille, from Old French faille, from Vulgar Latin *fallita, from Latin fallo (I disappoint).

Pronunciation

Noun

feil f (plural feilen, diminutive feiltje n)

  1. (archaic) error
    Synonyms: fout, gebrek
  2. (obsolete) shortage, lack
    Synonyms: gebrek, tekort

Derived terms

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German

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle High German veile, from Old High German feili (for sale), from Proto-West Germanic *failī. Possibly merged with a descendant of Proto-Germanic *falaz, but this is uncertain. Old High German fali is only attested once in a text that uses ai for ei, thus quite plausibly a mere scribal error (regarding also that short a should be umlauted to e).

Cognate with Dutch veil. From *falaz stems Old Norse falr (whence Norwegian Nynorsk fal, Swedish fal). The latter is related with Old Church Slavonic плѣнъ (plěnŭ, booty), Ancient Greek πωλέω (pōléō, sell).

Adjective

feil (strong nominative masculine singular feiler, not comparable)

  1. (literary, derogatory) venal, capable of being bribed or prostituted
    Synonyms: käuflich, bestechlich
    feile Knechtevenal minions
    feile Dirnenvenal harlots
  2. (literary, dated) for sale, vendible, purchasable (now at most predicatively with sein, stehen, and in the compounds below)
    Synonyms: käuflich, verkäuflich, zu (ver)kaufen
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

feil

  1. singular imperative of feilen
  2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of feilen

Further reading

  • feil” in Duden online
  • feil” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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Irish

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Old Irish

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