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fille

See also: Fille

French

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fij/
  • Audio; “une fille”:(file)
  • (Quebec) IPA(key): [fɪj]

Noun

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fille f (plural filles)

  1. girl
    Coordinate term: garçon
    Toutes les filles n’aiment pas jouer avec des poupées. ― Not all girls like playing with dolls.
  2. daughter
    Coordinate term: fils
    Je vous présente mes fils, Gérard-Marcel et Pierre-Vincent, et mes filles, Marie-Léonore et Jacqueline-Hélène.
    May I introduce you to my sons, Gérard-Marcel and Pierre-Vincent, and my daughters, Marie-Léonore and Jacqueline-Hélène.
  3. (slang) prostitute, wench
    Il buvait et courait les filles avant qu’il ne contracte la cirrhose et la blennorragie. ― He drank and consorted with hookers before contracting cirrhosis and gonorrhea.

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Descendants

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  • Haitian Creole: fi
  • Louisiana Creole: fiy

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Galician

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Verb

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fille

  1. inflection of fillar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Irish

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Verb

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fille

  1. present subjunctive analytic of fill

Mutation

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Mutated forms of fille
radical lenition eclipsis
fille fhille bhfille

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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From Old English fyll, fyllu, from Proto-West Germanic *fullī, from Proto-Germanic *fullį̄. For forms with /u/, see fulle.

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfɛl(ə)/, /ˈfil(ə)/

Noun

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fille (uncountable)

  1. A sufficient amount; the state of satiation.
  2. A desired amount; the state of satisfaction.
  3. Profusion, surfeit; a state of plenty.
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Etymology 2

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From Old English fille, an aphetic form of ċerfille.

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Noun

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fille (plural filles)

  1. Chervil (Anthriscus cerefolium)
  2. Something of little value.
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Etymology 3

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Verb

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fille

  1. Alternative form of fillen

Middle French

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Etymology

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From Old French fille, from Latin fīlia.

Noun

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fille f (plural filles)

  1. daughter (female child)
  2. girl

Descendants

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  • French: fille
    • Haitian Creole: fi
    • Louisiana Creole: fiy

Norman

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old French fille, from Latin fīlia.

Noun

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fille f (plural filles)

  1. (Jersey, Guernsey) daughter
    Coordinate term: fils
  2. (Jersey, Guernsey) girl
    • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎[1], page 540:
      A quànd les filles sufflent le guiablle s'éhuque.
      When girls whistle the devil laughs outright.

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Old Norse filla (“skinn”).

Noun

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fille f or m (definite singular filla or fillen, indefinite plural filler, definite plural fillene)

  1. a rag

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Old Norse filla (“skin”), compare Dutch vel.

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fille f (definite singular filla, indefinite plural filler, definite plural fillene)

  1. a rag

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Old French

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Etymology

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From Latin fīlia(m).

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Noun

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fille oblique singular, f (oblique plural filles, nominative singular fille, nominative plural filles)

  1. daughter (female child)
  2. girl
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Pennsylvania German

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Etymology 1

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Compare German füllen, Dutch vullen, English fill.

Verb

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fille

  1. to fill
  2. to farce

Etymology 2

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fille

  1. to foal

Saterland Frisian

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfɪlə/
  • Hyphenation: fil‧le

Verb

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fille

  1. (transitive) to skin
  2. (transitive) to deceive

Conjugation

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Conjugation of fille (weak type 1)
Grúundfoarme fille
Infinitive tou fillen
Present tense Past tense
iek fille wie fille iek filde wie filden
du filst jie fille du fildest jie filden
hie/ju/dät filt jo fille hie/ju/dät filde jo filden
Present participle Imperative Auxiliary Past participle
fillend Singular fil häbe fild
Plural fillet

References

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  • Marron C. Fort (2015) “fille”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN
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