bille

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See also: Bille and billé

Danish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *bitulaz, *bītilaz (that which tends to bite, biter, beetle), from *bītaną; equivalent to bide +‎ -le. See also Icelandic bitil, bitul (a bite, bit), Faroese bitil (small piece, bittock).

Noun

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bille c (singular definite billen, plural indefinite biller)

  1. beetle

Inflection

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French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /bij/
  • Audio:(file)

Etymology 1

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Inherited from Middle French bille, from Old French bille (small ball), from Frankish *bikkil (ossicle, a die, talus). Cognate with Dutch bikkel (dibs, die), West Frisian bikkel (die), German Bickel (marble).

Noun

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bille f (plural billes)

  1. marble (spherical ball)
  2. (snooker, billiards) ball
  3. ball bearing
  4. (slang) dimwit
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • Italian: biglia, bilia (once more common)
    • Arabic: بِلْيَة (bilya)
    • Turkish: bilye
  • Portuguese: bilha
  • Vietnamese: bi

Etymology 2

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Inherited from Middle French bille, from Old French *bille (attested as Medieval Latin billia (tree-trunk)), from Vulgar Latin *billia, from Gaulish *bilia, from Proto-Celtic *belyom (tree), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yom (leaf). Cognate with Irish bile (tree), Latin folium (leaf, foil).

Noun

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bille f (plural billes)

  1. tree trunk (chopped down, ready for sawing)
  2. railway sleeper
  3. rolling pin
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Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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bille

  1. inflection of biller:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Scots and English bill.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bille m (genitive singular bille, nominative plural billí)

  1. bill
  2. currency note

Declension

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bille bhille mbille
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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Norman

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English bill.

Noun

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bille f (plural billes)

  1. (Jersey) note

Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

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bille m (definite singular billen, indefinite plural biller, definite plural billene)

  1. a beetle

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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bille f (definite singular billa, indefinite plural biller, definite plural billene)

  1. a beetle

Old English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbil.le/, [ˈbiɫ.ɫe]

Noun

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bille

  1. dative singular of bil

Old French

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Frankish *bikkil.

Noun

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bille oblique singularf (oblique plural billes, nominative singular bille, nominative plural billes)

  1. stick; baton
Descendants
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Etymology 2

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From Latin bulla.

Noun

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bille oblique singularf (oblique plural billes, nominative singular bille, nominative plural billes)

  1. written decree, announcement (etc.)
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References

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