fil

fil

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

Of North Germanic origin, from Swedish fil. Also related to Finnish viili.

fil (uncountable)

1. A Nordic dairy product, similar to yogurt, but using different bacteria which give a different taste and texture.

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

fil (plural fils)

1. (chess) Alternative form of alfil.

• LIF, lif

Borrowed from Arabic فِيل‎ (fīl).

• IPA^(key): /fil/

• Audio

  (file)

fil (definite accusative fili, plural fillər)

1. elephant
2. (chess) bishop

From Latin fīlum, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰiH-(s-)lo-.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈfil/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -il

fil m (plural fils)

1. thread, wire
2. (Internet) discussion thread

   Synonym: tema

• fil d'aram
• aguantar-se per un fil

• filar

• “fil” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “fil”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “fil” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fil” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

fil

1. elephant

From Latin fīlum.

fil m

1. thread, yarn, string

• filur

From Middle Low German vīle, from Old Saxon fila, from Proto-Germanic *finhlō.

• IPA^(key): /fiːl/, [fiːˀl]
• Rhymes: -iːl

fil c (singular definite filen, plural indefinite file)

1. file (tool)

Borrowed from English file (“an aggregation of data”) (1962).

• IPA^(key): /fiːl/, [fiːˀl]

fil c (singular definite filen, plural indefinite filer)

1. file (computer terminology)

See file.

• IPA^(key): /fiːl/, [fiːˀl]

fil

1. imperative of file

From Old French fil, from Latin fīlum.

• IPA^(key): /fil/

• audio

  (file)

• Homophones: file, filent, files, fils, Phil, -phile
• Rhymes: -il

fil m (plural fils)

1. yarn, thread, wire

   ne tenir qu'à un fil

   to hang by a thread

2. grain (of wood etc.)
3. edge (of blade, razor etc.)

• → English: file (“collection of papers”) (see there for further descendants)

• “fil”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

fil m (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of filo

• IPA^(key): /fɪl/

fil

1. elephant

From Arabic فِيل‎ (fīl).

• IPA^(key): /fiːl/

fil m (plural fjiel)

1. (archaic) elephant

   Synonym: iljunfant

fil

1. Alternative form of fille

fil

1. Alternative form of fillen

• IPA^(key): /fiːl/
• Rhymes: -iːl

fil f or m (definite singular fila or filen, indefinite plural filer, definite plural filene)

1. A file.
2. A hand tool used for removing sharp edges or for cutting, especially through metal.
3. A section of roadway for a single line of vehicles, a lane.

• tekstfil

• “fil” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “fil_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “fil_3” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Borrowed from Swedish, from Old French. In the sense of a "computer file" it is borrowed from English file. Both the English and Swedish origins ultimately derive from Latin filum.

• IPA^(key): /fiːl/

fil f (definite singular fila, indefinite plural filer, definite plural filene)

1. (computing) a file
2. (driving) a lane

Until 1983, this noun was also considered masculine.

• datafil
• køyrefil

From Middle Low German.

• IPA^(key): /fiːl/

fil f (definite singular fila, indefinite plural filer, definite plural filene)

1. a file (a hand tool)

Possibly shortened from Danish pamfilius. However, it might also be a native clipping of pamfil.[1]

• IPA^(key): /fiːl/

fil f (definite singular fila, indefinite plural filer, definite plural filene)

1. (card games) knave (esp. of clubs)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fil

1. imperative of file

• “fil” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• fli

From Latin fīlum.

• IPA^(key): (Limousin) [ˈfjaʷ][1]
• IPA^(key): (Auvergnat) [ˈfjɑʷ]
• IPA^(key): (Gascon) [ˈhiu̯]

• Audio (Gascon)

  (file)

• IPA^(key): (East Languedocien) [ˈfiu̯]
• IPA^(key): (West Languedocien) [ˈfil]

• Audio (West Languedocien)

  (file)

fil m (plural fils)

1. thread

• Müller, Daniela. 2011. Developments of the lateral in Occitan dialects and their Romance and cross-linguistic context. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Toulouse.

From Latin fīlium, accusative singular of fīlius. The nominative form fiz, fils (whence modern French fils), derives from the Latin nominative.

• IPA^(key): /fil/, /fiʎ/

fil m (oblique plural fiz or filz, nominative singular fiz or filz, nominative plural fil)

1. son (male child)

• Bourguignon: fi
• Walloon: fi

See filz for descendants from the nominative singular inflection.

From Latin fīlum.

• IPA^(key): /fil/

fil m (oblique plural fis, nominative singular fis, nominative plural fil)

1. thread (fine strand of material)
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     A fil d'or ovree et tissue.

     It was made and woven from fine threads of gold

• French: fil

• fail, feil, fel
• fele, file (relative)

From Proto-Celtic *wele (“see!”), the imperative of Proto-Celtic *weleti (“see”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“see”), compare Welsh gweled (“to see”). Semantic development from "see!" to "there is" is parallel to that of French voici, from vois ci (“see here”) and voilà, from vois là (“see there”).

• IPA^(key): /fʲilʲ/

·fil

1. present progressive conjunct of at·tá
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 19^c20

     Má nudub·feil i n‑ellug coirp Críst, adib cland Abrache amal ṡodin, et it sib ata chomarpi Abracham.

     If you pl are in the union of the body of Christ, you are Abraham’s children in that case, and it is you who are Abraham’s heirs.

   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 26^b7

     De dliguth trá inna n-il-toimdden sin, is de gaibthi “igitur”; quasi dixisset “Ní fail ní nád taí mo dligeth-sa fair i ndegaid na comroircnech.”

     Of the law then, of those many opinions, it is thereof that he recites “igitur”; as if he had said, “There is nothing which my law does not touch upon after the erroneous ones.

fil

1. third-person singular present progressive relative of at·tá
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 114^b18

     nád fil nech con·gné fris ón acht Día

     that there is no one to help him but God

In the conjunct form, the logical subject appears in the accusative (or as an infixed object pronoun) in the oldest language. Examples:

• cinin·fil (“although we are not”)
• condib·feil (“so that you pl are”)
• má nudub·feil (“if you pl are”)
• nícon·ḟil nach rainn (“there is no part”)
• nín·fil (“we are not”)

• do·fil

• Irish: bhfuil, níl
• Manx: vel, nel
• Scottish Gaelic: bheil, eil

• phil (alternative spelling)

Apocopic form of filo or fillo. Perhaps influenced by forms akin to Old Occitan fil.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfil/

fil m (plural filos or fillos)

1. Apocopic form of filo, son, child
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 14v.

     Entra a pharaon q́ ẏo engrauiare so coraçó. de los sieruos del criador. Por poner eſtas mis ſénales. ¬ cuétalo deláte tos fiios al fil de tos fijos. Todo lo q́ fiz en egipto en tus ſénales q́ pus en ellos e ſabredes q́ ẏo so el ſénor.

     “Go to Pharaoh, for I will harden his heart toward the servants of the Creator, that I may perform these My signs. And recount before your children and the child of your children all that I did in Egypt through your signs that I put among them, and you will know that I am the Lord.”

Inherited from Latin fīlum (“thread”).

• (Central Romagnol): IPA^(key): [ˈfiːl]

fil m (invariable) (Ravenna, Castel Bolognese)

1. thread

• fȉlj

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish فیل‎ (fil) (modern Turkish fil), from Arabic فِيل‎ (fīl), from Middle Persian pyl (pīl), from Akkadian 𒄠𒋛 (pīru). Akin to fìldiš.

• (fȉl): IPA^(key): /fîl/
• (fȋl): IPA^(key): /fîːl/

fȉl m (Cyrillic spelling фи̏л) or fȋl m (Cyrillic spelling фи̑л)

1. (regional) elephant

• (elephant): slȍn

• “fil” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• Škaljić, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 283
• “fil”, in Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 6, Друго фототипско издање edition, Нови Сад, Загреб: Матица српска, Матица хрватска, 1967–1976, published 1990, page 668

From Middle Low German vīle, from Old Saxon fila, from Proto-West Germanic *fį̄hlu, from Proto-Germanic *finhlō. Cognate with English file and German Feile.

• IPA^(key): /fiːl/

• audio

  (file)

fil c

1. a file (a tool)

• bågfil
• fila
• filare
• filklove
• filning
• filspån
• järnfil

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “French file?”).

Row and lane (a row of vehicles) is one etymology, but as English file suggests computer file has a different etymology. However, the Swedish computer file is sometimes explained as a row of bytes, in attempt to shoehorn this new English loanword into the etymology of the existing word.

• IPA^(key): /fiːl/

• audio

  (file)

fil c

1. a row of objects; most commonly used about moving objects
2. a section of roadway for a single line of vehicles, a lane
3. file (in computer technology)

row

• defilera

lane

• filkörning
• filmarkering

computer file

• fildelare
• fildelning
• filformat
• filhanterare
• filkatalog
• filnamn

Related to Icelandic þél (“fermented milk”), from Old Norse þéttr (“dense, tight”).

• IPA^(key): /fiːl/

• audio

  (file)

fil c (uncountable)

1. any product from a family of various (deliberately) soured milk products
2. abbreviation for filmjölk; a particular kind of fil as above

• filbunke
• filmjölk
• filpaket
• gräddfil
• långfil
• lättfil

• Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy]‎ (in Swedish), 1937
• fil in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

• lif

From English field.

fil

1. sportsfield

From Ottoman Turkish فیل‎ (fil), from Arabic فِيل‎ (fīl), from Persian پیل‎ (pīl) (and from alternate Ottoman Turkish پیل‎ (pil), directly from Persian پیل‎ (pīl)), from Akkadian 𒄠𒋛 (pīru), related to Egyptian ꜣbw (root of English elephant).

• IPA^(key): /fil/

fil (definite accusative fili, plural filler)

1. elephant
2. (chess) bishop

fil (plural fillar)

1. elephant
2. (chess) bishop

fil (nominative plural fils)

1. fire

• IPA^(key): /viːl/

fil

1. soft mutation of mil

Compare Icelandic þél (“thickened milk.”) Related to tjett (“dense.”)

fil f

1. Snivel.

• fiil

fil n

1. A kind of fermented and soured milk.

From Persian فیل‎ (fil).

fil ?

1. elephant