il
French
qual1=preconsonental
pronoun
Definitions
- he (third-person singular masculine subject pronoun for human subject)
- it (third-person singular subject pronoun for grammatically masculine objects)
- (impersonal pronoun) Impersonal subject; it
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French il inherited from Old French il inherited from Latin *illī, ille (that, that one, he, that man, it, she).
Origin
Latin
ille
Gloss
that, that one, he, that man, it, she
Concept
Semantic Field
Miscellaneous function words
Ontological Category
Other
Kanji
彼
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- illeism English
- illeist English
- illeity English
- *illi Latin
- *illu Latin
- *illui Latin
- *illus Latin
- *illī Latin
- ille Latin
- ille, illā hōrā Latin
- illic Latin
- illum Latin
- egli Italian
- el Spanish, Castilian
- él Spanish, Castilian
- il Old French
- li Old French
- oil Old French
- ell Catalan, Valencian
- el Galician
- ili Ido
- ilu Ido
- ilua Ido
- i' Norman
- il Middle French
- ele Old Portuguese
- el Aromanian
- elu Aromanian
- el Occitan
- el Romansh
- el Asturian
- él Asturian
- li Old Occitan
- elo Venetian
- el Dalmatian
- jal Dalmatian
- ena Mauritian Creole
- i Walloon
- le Bourguignon
- lou Bourguignon
- l' Neapolitan
- ellu Corsican
- lu Corsican
- olle Old Latin
- el Aragonese
- ixe Aragonese
- le Aragonese
- les Aragonese
- li Aragonese
- lis Aragonese
- él Aragonese
- al Emilian
- el Leonese
- lou Champenois