ijl

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• Rhymes: -ɛi̯l
• IPA^(key): /ɛi̯/

Contracted from late Middle Dutch idel, which survives uncontracted as ijdel. An alternative contracted form led to iel.

ijl (comparative ijler, superlative ijlst)

1. rarefied (of a gas etc.), not dense
2. (chiefly obsolete) skinny, lacking fat
3. (obsolete) empty

• ijlheid

ijl

1. inflection of ijlen (“speak deliriously”):
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

From Middle Dutch *ile, from Old Dutch *īla, from Proto-Germanic *īlō.

ijl f (uncountable)

1. rush, haste

• in allerijl

ijl

1. inflection of ijlen (“rush, haste”):
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• Afrikaans: yl

• lij