ella

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Aragonese

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Etymology

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From Latin illa, feminine of ille.

Pronoun

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ella

  1. she

Asturian

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Etymology

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From Latin illa, feminine of ille.

Pronoun

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ella

  1. she

Catalan

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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ella (plural elles)

  1. she

Declension

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Corsican

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

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ella f

  1. she
  2. her (disjunctive)

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References

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Faroese

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Etymology

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From Old Norse ella.

Pronunciation

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Conjunction

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ella

  1. or

Fula

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Etymology

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From Arabic عِلَّة (ʕilla).

Noun

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ella o

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

References

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  • 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

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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ella

  1. else, or else, otherwise

Synonyms

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Conjunction

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ella

  1. or

Synonyms

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Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin illa, feminine of ille (that).

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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ella f (plural elle, archaic plural elleno)

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

Usage notes

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

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Anagrams

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *ɸalnati.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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·ella

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

Derived terms

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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

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
·ella
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged ·n-ella
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Portuguese

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Pronoun

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ella f

  1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of ela.

Sotho

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Verb

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ella

  1. to move towards

Spanish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin illa, feminine of ille.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈeʝa/ [ˈe.ʝa]
  • IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Philippines) /ˈeʎa/ [ˈe.ʎa]
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈeʃa/ [ˈe.ʃa]
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈeʒa/ [ˈe.ʒa]

 

  • Syllabification: e‧lla

Pronoun

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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)
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Further reading

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Welsh

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Pronunciation

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Adverb

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ella

  1. perhaps, maybe (colloquial form of efallai)