eļļõ

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See also: ello, Ello, -ello, and 'ello

Livonian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Possibly borrowed from Latvian eļļa. Ultimately from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German ölje from olie. Compare German Öl.[1] Suhonen lists the form as a borrowing from Latvian or German.[2] This entry uses the form listed in LĒL for the "oil" sense.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

eļļõ

  1. partitive singular of
  2. illative singular of

eļļõ

  1. oil

Usage notes[edit]

The word (hell) is in one instance indicated as meaning oil (in the compound "almond oil"), however, with a different inflectional type (type 103 – with consonant shift – lengthening of the stem consonant different from inflection of the "hell" sense of the word .) However, eļļõ of the sieldõ type seems to be a much more prevalent word to refer to oil.

Declension[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Konstantīns Karulis (1992, 2001), Latviešu etimoloģijas vārdnīca, Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
  2. ^ Seppo Suhonen (1973), Die jungen lettischen Lehnwörter im Livischen, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura

Verb[edit]

eļļõ

  1. to oil

Conjugation[edit]