# hil
## Translingual
### Symbol

hil
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Hiligaynon.

### See also

* Wiktionary’s coverage of Hiligaynon terms

## Azerbaijani
### Etymology

From Persian هل (hel).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

hil (definite accusative hili, plural hillər)
* cardamom

#### Declension
## Basque
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Navarro-Lapurdian) /hil/ [hil]
* IPA: (Southern) /il/ [il]
* Rhymes: -il
* Hyphenation: hil

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Basque *(h)iLe (“moon, month”).

#### Noun

hil inan
* month (a period into which a year is divided)

##### Derived terms

* hilabete (“month”) (see there for further derivations)

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Basque *(h)iL.

#### Adjective

hil (comparative hilago, superlative hilen, excessive hilegi)
* deceased
* (figurative) faint, tenuous

##### Declension
#### Noun

hil inan or anim
* death
* dead person

##### Derived terms

* hil aitor (“deathbed confession”)
* hil-auto (“hearse”)
* hil-automobil (“hearse”)
* hil-behar (“destiny, fatality”)
* hila lurpera, biziak asera (“life goes on”)
* hila lurpera, biziak mahaira (“life goes on”)
* hilaldi (“period of suffering”)
* hilarri (“tombstone”)
* hilartitz (“epitaph”)
* hilatorra (“shroud”)
* hilaur (“abortus”)
* hilaur egin (“to abort”)
* hilaurtu (“to abort”)
* hilbeila (“wake”)
* hilberri (“obituary”)

#### Verb

hil da/du (imperfect participle hiltzen, future participle hilko or hilen, short form hil, verbal noun hiltze)
* (intransitive) to die
    Synonym: zendu
* (transitive) to kill
* (transitive) to murder
    Synonym: erail

##### Derived terms

* hil ala bizi (“life-or-death”)
* hil edo bizi (“life-or-death”)
* hil edo biziko (“life-or-death”)
* hil hurren (“dying”)
* hilarteko (“for life”)

### References

* ↑ “*iLe” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk
* ↑ “hil” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk

### Further reading

* “hil”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
* “hil”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

## Cornish
### Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *hil, from Proto-Celtic *sīlom.

### Noun

hil m (plural hilyow)
* race, ethnicity
    Synonym: agh

#### Derived terms

* hilegydh
* hilgaswas

## Dutch
### Alternative forms

* hul

### Etymology

From Middle Dutch hil, hille, from Old Dutch *hul, hil, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hulliz (“stone, rock”), from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥Hnís (“top, hill, rock”).
Cognate to English hill, Middle Dutch hulle (“hill”), Low German hull (“hill”), Icelandic hóll (“hill”). Related to holm.

### Noun

hil m (plural hillen, diminutive hilletje n)
* (archaic) hill, elevation
    Synonyms: heuvel, hoogte

## Irish
### Adjective

hil
* h-prothesized form of il

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English hyll, from Proto-Germanic *hulliz (“hill”).

#### Alternative forms

* hyl, hille, hylle, hul, hulle, helle

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hil/

#### Noun

hil (plural hiles)
* hill

##### Descendants

* English: hill
* Scots: hill, hull
* Yola: hele, hile, hill

##### References

* “hil(le, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

hil (plural hiles)
* Alternative form of hyl (“mound”)

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

hil (past participle hiled)
* Alternative form of hilen (“to cover”)

## Old Irish
### Adjective

hil
* Alternative form of il

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French hile, from Latin hilum.

### Noun

hil n (plural hiluri)
* hilum

#### Declension
## Volapük
### Noun

hil (nominative plural hils)
* heel

#### Declension

$^1$ status as a case is disputed $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only

## Welsh
### Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *hil, from Proto-Celtic *sīlom (“seed”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow”). Cognate with Cornish hil (“race”), Irish síol (“seed; race”), Latin sēmen (“seed”), English sow.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hiːl/
* Rhymes: -iːl

### Noun

hil f (plural hilion, not mutable)
* race, ethnicity

#### Derived terms

* gwehilion (“scum, dregs”)
* hiliaeth (“racism”)

### Further reading

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “hil”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies