lill

See also: Lill and lill-

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪl

Verb

lill (third-person singular simple present lills, present participle lilling, simple past and past participle lilled)

1. (obsolete) To loll.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Cerberus […] lilled forth his bloody flaming tong

References

• lill in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Estonian

Etymology

Onomatopoeic. Possibly the same root as in Finnish lelliä.

Noun

lill (genitive lille, partitive lille)

1. flower (plant)

Declension

Declension of lill (ÕS type 22i/külm, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		lill	lilled
accusative	nom.
	gen.	lille
genitive			lillede
partitive		lille	lilli lillesid
illative		lille lillesse	lilledesse lillisse
inessive		lilles	lilledes lillis
elative		lillest	lilledest lillist
allative		lillele	lilledele lillile
adessive		lillel	lilledel lillil
ablative		lillelt	lilledelt lillilt
translative		lilleks	lilledeks lilliks
terminative		lilleni	lilledeni
essive		lillena	lilledena
abessive		lilleta	lilledeta
comitative		lillega	lilledega

Derived terms

• rukkilill