# fille
## French
### Etymology

* (daughter): From Middle French fille, from Old French fille, from Latin fīlia.
* (slang, prostitute): By ellipsis of the euphemisms fille des rues (“girl of the streets”), fille de joie (“girl of joy”), fille publique (“public girl”), and others like them that signify "prostitute".

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fij/
* Audio; “une fille”:(file)
* (Quebec) IPA: [fɪj]

### Noun

fille f (plural filles)
* girl
    Coordinate term: garçon
    Toutes les filles n’aiment pas jouer avec des poupées. ― Not all girls like playing with dolls.
* daughter
    Coordinate term: fils
    Je vous présente mes fils, Gérard-Marcel et Pierre-Vincent, et mes filles, Marie-Léonore et Jacqueline-Hélène.May I introduce you to my sons, Gérard-Marcel and Pierre-Vincent, and my daughters, Marie-Léonore and Jacqueline-Hélène.
* (slang) prostitute, wench
    Il buvait et courait les filles avant qu’il ne contracte la cirrhose et la blennorragie. ― He drank and consorted with hookers before contracting cirrhosis and gonorrhea.

#### Derived terms

* chum de fille
* classe fille
* coureur des filles
* courir les filles
* fille de comptoir
* fille de cuisine
* fille de joie
* fille de laiterie
* fille de pute
* fille de salle
* fille de trottoir
* fille des rues
* fille du port
* fille manquée
* fille mère
* fille publique
* fille soumise
* fille unique
* Filles du Roi
* fillette
* jeune fille
* telle mère, telle fille
* vieille fille

#### Descendants

* Haitian Creole: fi
* Louisiana Creole: fiy

### Further reading

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

## Galician
### Verb

fille
* inflection of fillar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Irish
### Verb

fille
* present subjunctive analytic of fill

### Mutation
## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English fyll, fyllu, from Proto-West Germanic *fullī, from Proto-Germanic *fullį̄. For forms with /u/, see fulle.

#### Alternative forms

* fell, felle, fil, fill, fyll, fylle

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɛl(ə)/, /ˈfil(ə)/

#### Noun

fille (uncountable)
* A sufficient amount; the state of satiation.
* A desired amount; the state of satisfaction.
* Profusion, surfeit; a state of plenty.

##### Descendants

* English: fill
* Yola: vill

##### References

* “fille, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 2

From Old English fille, an aphetic form of ċerfille.

#### Alternative forms

* ville

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfil(ə)/

#### Noun

fille (plural filles)
* Chervil (Anthriscus cerefolium)
* Something of little value.

##### References

* “fille, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

fille
* Alternative form of fillen

## Middle French
### Etymology

From Old French fille, from Latin fīlia.

### Noun

fille f (plural filles)
* daughter (female child)
* girl

#### Descendants

* French: fille
** Haitian Creole: fi
** Louisiana Creole: fiy

## Norman
### Alternative forms

* fil'ye (Jersey)

### Etymology

From Old French fille, from Latin fīlia.

### Noun

fille f (plural filles)
* (Jersey, Guernsey) daughter
    Coordinate term: fils
* (Jersey, Guernsey) girl
** 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎, page 540:A quànd les filles sufflent le guiablle s'éhuque.When girls whistle the devil laughs outright.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse filla (“skinn”).

### Noun

fille f or m (definite singular filla or fillen, indefinite plural filler, definite plural fillene)
* a rag

#### Derived terms

* filledukke

### References

* “fille” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
* “fille_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Old Norse filla (“skin”), compare Dutch vel.

### Noun

fille f (definite singular filla, indefinite plural filler, definite plural fillene)
* a rag

#### Synonyms

* lærv (dialectal)

#### Derived terms

* i filler
* så fillene ryk

### References

* “fille” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old French
### Etymology

From Latin fīlia(m).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfi.ʎə/

### Noun

fille oblique singular, f (oblique plural filles, nominative singular fille, nominative plural filles)
* daughter (female child)
* girl

#### Related terms

* fil

#### Descendants

* Middle French: fille
** French: fille
*** Haitian Creole: fi
*** Louisiana Creole: fiy
* Norman: fille, fil'ye
* Walloon: feye

## Pennsylvania German
### Etymology 1

Compare German füllen, Dutch vullen, English fill.

#### Verb

fille
* to fill
* to farce

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

fille
* to foal

## Saterland Frisian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɪlə/
* Hyphenation: fil‧le

### Verb

fille
* (transitive) to skin
* (transitive) to deceive

#### Conjugation
### References

* Marron C. Fort (2015) “fille”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN