lill
See also: Lill and lill-
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɪl/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪl
Verb
lill (third-person singular simple present lills, present participle lilling, simple past and past participle lilled)
- (obsolete) To loll.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Cerberus […] lilled forth his bloody flaming tong
References
Estonian
Etymology
Onomatopoeic. Possibly the same root as in Finnish lelliä.
Noun
lill (genitive lille, partitive lille)
- flower (plant)
Declension
| Declension of lill (ÕS type 22i/külm, length gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | lill | lilled | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | lille | ||
| genitive | lillede | ||
| partitive | lille | lilli lillesid | |
| illative | lille lillesse |
lilledesse lillisse | |
| inessive | lilles | lilledes lillis | |
| elative | lillest | lilledest lillist | |
| allative | lillele | lilledele lillile | |
| adessive | lillel | lilledel lillil | |
| ablative | lillelt | lilledelt lillilt | |
| translative | lilleks | lilledeks lilliks | |
| terminative | lilleni | lilledeni | |
| essive | lillena | lilledena | |
| abessive | lilleta | lilledeta | |
| comitative | lillega | lilledega | |