ella

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ella"

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin illa, feminine of ille.

Pronoun

ella

  1. she

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin illa, feminine of ille.

Pronoun

ella

  1. she

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin illa, feminine of ille. Compare Occitan ela (and a medieval variant elha), French elle, Spanish ella.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈe.ʎə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencia) [ˈe.ʎa]
  • Audio:(file)

Pronoun

ella (plural elles)

  1. she

Declension

Catalan personal pronouns and clitics
strong/subject weak (direct object) weak (indirect object) possessive
proclitic enclitic proclitic enclitic
singular 1st
person 		standard jo, mi3 em, m’ -me, ’m em, m’ -me, ’m meu
majestic1 nós ens -nos, ’ns ens -nos, ’ns nostre
2nd
person 		standard tu et, t’ -te, ’t et, t’ -te, ’t teu
formal1 vós us -vos, -us us -vos, -us vostre
very formal2 vostè el, l’ -lo, ’l li -li seu
3rd
person 		m ell el, l’ -lo, ’l li -li seu
f ella la, l’4 -la li -li seu
n ho -ho li -li seu
plural
1st person nosaltres ens -nos, ’ns ens -nos, ’ns nostre
2nd
person 		standard vosaltres us -vos, -us us -vos, -us vostre
formal2 vostès els -los, ’ls els -los, ’ls seu
3rd
person 		m ells els -los, ’ls els -los, ’ls seu
f elles les -les els -los, ’ls seu
3rd person reflexive si es, s’ -se, ’s es, s’ -se, ’s seu
adverbial ablative/genitive en, n’ -ne, ’n
locative hi -hi

1 Behaves grammatically as plural.   2 Behaves grammatically as third person.
3 Only as object of a preposition.   4 Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-.

Corsican

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin illa, feminine form of ille (“that”), from Old Latin olle (“that”). Cognates include Italian ella and Spanish ella.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛlːa/
  • Hyphenation: el‧la

Pronoun

ella f

  1. she
  2. her (disjunctive)

See also

Corsican personal pronouns
nominative dative accusative disjunctive
singular 1st person eiu mi mè
2nd person tù ti tè
3rd person m ellu li u, l' ellu
f ella a, l' ella
plural 1st person noi ci noi
2nd person voi vi voi
3rd person m elli li i, l' elli
f elle e, l' elle

References

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse ella.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɛtla], [ˈɪtla]
  • (Suðuroy) IPA(key): [ˈɪlːa]

Conjunction

ella

  1. or

Fula

Etymology

From Arabic عِلَّة (ʕilla).

Noun

ella o

  1. (Maasina, Pulaar) flaw, blemish, vice, defect
    elle (Maasina Plural)
    ellaaji (Pulaar Plural)
    allaaru (Maasina)

References

  • D. Osborn, D. Dwyer, et J. Donohoe, Lexique Fulfulde (Maasina)-Anglais-Français: Une compilation basée sur racines et tirée de sources existantes, suivie de listes en anglais-fulfulde et français-fulfulde, East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1993.
  • M. Niang, Pulaar-English English-Pulaar Standard Dictionary, New York: Hippocrene Books, 1997.

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse ella, shortened from earlier elligar. Compare ellegar. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *aljaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛtla/
  • Rhymes: -ɛtla

Adverb

ella

  1. else, or else, otherwise
    Synonyms: annars, ellegar

Conjunction

ella

  1. or
    Synonyms: eða, eður, ellegar

Italian

Etymology

From Latin illa, feminine of ille (“that”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛl.la/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛlla

Pronoun

ella f (plural elle, archaic plural elleno)

  1. (uncommon, literary, subject form) she
    Synonym: lei

Usage notes

  • The term has largely fallen out of use in the spoken language, in favor of the oblique form lei.

See also

Italian personal pronouns (alternate)
Number Person Gender Nominative Reflexive Accusative Dative Locative Genitive Disjunctive
Singular third m esso1, egli, elli3 si, s' lo, l' gli vi, v' ne, n' esso, sé
f essa, ella, Ella2 la, l' le, ella3 essa, sé
Plural third m essi, eglino3, ellino3, elli3 si, s' li loro vi, v' ne, n' essi, sé
f esse, elle3, elleno3 le esse, elle3, sé
1 Refers predominantly to non-humans.
2 Highly elevated variant of Lei.
3 Archaic.

Anagrams

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ɸalnati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈel͈a/

Verb

·ella

  1. unattested by itself; takes various preverbs to form verbs

Derived terms

It is not easy to clearly distinguish between derivatives of this root and derivatives of ·lá (from Proto-Celtic *layeti). See fo·ceird for derivatives of ·lá.

Mutation

Mutation of ·ella
radical lenition nasalization
·ella
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)		 ·ella ·n-ella

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

Portuguese

Pronoun

ella f

  1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of ela.

Sotho

Verb

ella

  1. to move towards

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin illa, feminine of ille.

Pronunciation

 

 

  • Syllabification: e‧lla

Pronoun

ella (plural ellas, masculine él, masculine plural ellos)

  1. she, her (used subjectively and after prepositions)
  2. it (used subjectively and after prepositions to refer to feminine nouns)

See also

Spanish personal pronouns
Nominative Disjunctive Accusative Dative Comitative
First-person Singular yo mí me conmigo
Plural Masculine1 nosotros nos —
Feminine nosotras
Second-person Singular Tuteo tú tí te contigo
Voseo vos —
Formal2 Masculine1 usted le, se3 lo
Feminine la
Plural Familiar4 Masculine1 vosotros os
Feminine vosotras
Formal/general2 Masculine1 ustedes les, se3 los
Feminine las
Third-person Singular Masculine1 él le, se3 lo
Feminine ella la
Neuter ello5 lo
Plural Masculine1 ellos les, se3 los
Feminine ellas las
Reflexive — sí se consigo
  1. Like other masculine words, masculine pronouns can be used when the gender of the subject is unknown or when the subject is plural and of mixed gender.
  2. Treated as if it were third person for purposes of conjugation and reflexivity.
  3. If le or les precedes lo, la, los, or las in a clause, it is replaced with se (e.g. se lo dije instead of *le lo dije).
  4. Used primarily in Spain.
  5. Used only in rare circumstances.

Further reading

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛɬa/

Adverb

ella

  1. perhaps, maybe (colloquial form of efallai)
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