# iel
## Bouyei
### Etymology

From Proto-Tai *ˀjɯəᴬ (“medicine”). Cognate with Thai ยา (yaa), Northern Thai ᩀᩣ, Lao ຢາ (yā), Lü ᦊᦱ (ẏaa), Tai Dam ꪤꪱ, Shan ယႃ (yǎa), Zhuang yw.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʔiə˨˦/

### Noun

iel
* medicine; drug
* poison
    Synonym: duf

### Verb

iel
* to provide medical treatment; to treat

## Classical Nahuatl
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈíːjeːɬ]

### Noun

īēl inan
* third-person singular possessive singular of ēlli; (it is) his, her or its liver.

## Crimean Gothic
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hailiją, from *hailaz; compare Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌻𐍃 (hails).

### Pronunciation

* Krause & Slocum reconstruct IPA: /eːl/

### Noun

iel
* life, health
** 1589, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, letter:Iel. Vita sive sanitas.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Derived terms

* iel vburt

### References

* ↑ https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol/gotol/100#grammar_718

## Dutch
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /il/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: iel
* Rhymes: -il

### Adjective

iel (comparative ieler, superlative ielst)
* thin, slender

#### Declension
### Anagrams

* lei

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From i- (indeterminate correlative prefix) +‎ -el (correlative suffix of manner or degree).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈiel]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -iel
* Hyphenation: i‧el

### Adverb

iel
* somehow, in some way

#### Derived terms

* iel ajn (“anyhow”)
* iele

### See also
## French
### Alternative forms

* ielle, yel

### Etymology

Blend of il +‎ elle.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jɛl/, /i.ɛl/
* Audio:(file)

### Pronoun

iel gender-neutral (third-person singular, plural iels, accusative lea or lae, dative lui, emphatic ellui, possessive determiner son)
* (gender-neutral, neologism) they (singular). A gender-neutral singular third-person subject personal pronoun.
** 2014, Carina Rozenfeld, La Symphonie des abysses, Robert Laffont, book 1:[…] ; les jours où iels n’avaient pas l’occasion de parler un peu, juste tous les deux, iel se sentait vide.[…]; on days when they didn't have the opportunity to talk a little, just the two of them, they felt empty.
** 2016 March 4, Olivia B. Smith, Witch Hunt, Partie 1 : Le Legacy d’Olivia‎:Ainsi démarra la journée d’Emil. Iel suivait bien évidement les conseils de sa mère, continuant à affirmer qu’iel était un garçon, ce qui jusque là n’avait jamais été démenti.That's how Emil's day started. They naturally followed the advice of their mother and continued to say that they were a boy, which had never been contested until that point.
** 2017, Cindy Van Wilder, chapter 19, in Les Outrepasseurs, volume 4 Férénusia, Gulf stream éditeur:Pour les Ferreux. Pour Ferenusia, découvert en même temps qu’Antoinette, quand iel avait débarqué à Paris un an auparavant. Pour iel-mêmes [sic], aussi.For the Ferrous. For Ferenusia, discovered at the same time as Antoinette, when they had arrived in Paris a year earlier. For themselves, too.
** 2019 December 20, “Casbah d’Alger : lettre ouverte à Jean Nouvel”, in L’Humanité‎:Tout architecte se doit d’être complètement responsable des conditions et conséquences politiques des projets qu’iel accepte; toute position qui ferait de lui ou d’elle un.e simple exécutant·e constituerait une insulte à sa fonction et à sa capacité d’agir.Every architect must be completely responsible for the conditions and political consequences of the projects that they accept; any position which would make him or her a simple executor would constitute an insult to their function and to their ability to act.

#### Related terms

| Number | Person | Gender | Nominative (subject) | Accusative (direct complement) | Dative (indirect complement) | Locative (at) | Genitive (of) | Disjunctive (tonic) |
| Singular | First | — | je, j’ | me, m’ | me, m’ | — | — | moi |
| Singular | Second | — | tu | te, t’ | te, t’ | — | — | toi |
| Singular | Third | Masculine | il | le, l’ | lui | y | en | lui |
| Singular | Third | Feminine | elle | la, l’ | lui | y | en | elle |
| Singular | Third | Indeterminate | on$^1$ | — | — | — | — | — |
| Singular | Third | Reflexive | — | se, s’$^4$ | se, s’$^4$ | — | — | soi$^4$ |
| Plural | First | — | nous | nous | nous | — | — | nous |
| Plural | Second | — | vous$^2$ | vous$^2$$^{,3}$ | vous$^2$$^{,3}$ | — | — | vous$^2$ |
| Plural | Third | Masculine | ils$^3$ | les | leur | y | en | eux$^3$ |
| Plural | Third | Feminine | elles | les | leur | y | en | elles |
    $^1$ Also used as the first person plural.
    $^2$ Also used as the polite singular form.
    $^3$ Also used when a group has both men and women.
    $^4$ Also used as third person plural reflexive.

#### See also

* lea
* ellui
* cellui
* elleux
* celleux
* Appendix:Switzerland words of the year#fr-2021

### References

* "Iel/ielles/illes" : pourquoi et comment utiliser ces pronoms "neutres" ?, RTBF, 13 May 2021

### Further reading

* “The online version of the Petit Robert French dictionary has added an entry for a gender-neutral third person pronoun, "iel", also spelled "ielle"”, Language Log, 2021-11-19

## Megleno-Romanian
### Alternative forms

* i̯el, ĭel

### Etymology

From Latin ille, possibly through a Vulgar Latin *illus. Compare Aromanian, Romanian el.

### Pronoun

iel m sg
* he

#### Related terms

* ieľ

## Middle English
### Noun

iel
* Alternative form of el

## West Frisian
### Etymology

From Old Frisian ēl, from Proto-West Germanic *āl, from Proto-Germanic *ēlaz. Cognate with English eel, Dutch aal and German Aal.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /iə̯l/

### Noun

iel c (plural ielen, diminutive ieltsje)
* (countable or uncountable) eel
    Myn hovercraft sit fol mei iel.My hovercraft is full of eels.

#### Further reading

* “iel (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011