# hyle
## English
### Alternative forms

* hile, hyla (obsolete)
* ylem

### Etymology

One of several English variants (in casu Modern English, in the 17th and 18th century) for the Medieval Latin hyle, a transliteration of Aristotle’s concept of matter, in Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, “wood(s), material(s), matter, subject”) or πρώτη ὕλη (prṓtē húlē, “fundamental, undifferentiated matter”)

### Noun

hyle (uncountable)
* (obsolete, philosophy) matter
* The first matter of the cosmos, from which the four elements arose, according to the doctrines of Empedocles and Aristotle.

#### References

* OED: The Oxford English Dictionary, second edition, Oxford University Press, 1989

### Anagrams

* Heyl

## Danish
### Etymology

From Middle Low German hǖlen, from Old Saxon *hūwilon, from Proto-West Germanic *hūilōn.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hyːlə/, [ˈhyːlə]
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

hyle (past tense hylede or (unofficial) høl, past participle hylet)
* to yell
* to howl
* to wail
* to yowl
* to whine
* to hoot

#### Conjugation

activepassive
present
hyler
hyles
past
hylede or (unofficial) høl
hyledes
infinitive
hyle
hyles
imperative
hyl
participle
present
hylende
past
hylet (auxiliary verb have)
gerund
hylen :

#### Related terms

* hyl
* hylekor
* hylen
* hylende
* hyler
* hyleri
* hyletone

### References

* “hyle” in Den Danske Ordbog
* “hyle” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

## Ingrian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *hülgeh. Cognates include Finnish hylje and Estonian hüljes.

### Pronunciation

* (Ala-Laukaa) IPA: /ˈhyle/, [ˈhylʲe̞]
* (Soikkola) IPA: /ˈhyle/, [ˈhyle̞]
* Rhymes: -yle
* Hyphenation: hy‧le

### Noun

hyle
* seal
** 1937, V. A. Tetjurev, translated by N. J. Molotsova, Loonnontiito oppikirja alkușkoulua vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 54:Hyle ono merizveeri (kuva 46).The seal is a marine mammal (image 46).
* abscess or tumor on the finger

#### Derived terms

* imikkohyle

### References

* Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 75

## Latin
### Etymology

Transliteration of Aristotle’s concept of matter, in Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, “wood(s), material(s), matter, subject”) or πρώτη ὕλη (“fundamental, undifferentiated matter”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈhyː.leː/, [ˈhyːɫ̪eː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈi.le/, [ˈiːle]

### Noun

hȳlē f (genitive hȳlēs); first declension
* matter, the fundamental matter of all things, as opposing the form of all things (Aristotle’s doctrine of matter and form or hylomorphism); in Mediaeval Latin respectively materia prima and forma substantialis
* the matter of the body, as opposing the soul or mind (Aristotle’s doctrine of the soul)
* the first matter of the cosmos, an inaccurate interpretation of Aristotle's ἡ πρώτη ὕλη or materia prima

#### Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

#### Descendants

* → English: hyle

#### References

* “hyle”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* "hyle", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* hyle in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “hyle”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “hyle”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
* “hyle”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
* L&S: Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 1969
* See further references under ὕλη (húlē).

## Yola
### Etymology

From Middle English hielden, from Old English hieldan, from Proto-West Germanic *halþijan. Cognate with English hield (“to pour out”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hiːl/
* Homophones: heel, hele

### Verb

hyle
* to pour, as liquor or rain.

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 47