zil

zil (plural zils)

1. Alternative form of zill (kind of cymbal)

• Zil lane

• Liz

From French îles. See zil#Haitian Creole for more.

zil

1. island

• (Saint Lucia) lilèt

From French île (“island”). In French, the plural form îles is commonly preceded by a determiner- such as aux, les or mes- whose final s or x is pronounced /z/ before vowels (and is otherwise silent). As a result, îles was reanalyzed in Haitian Creole as beginning with /z/.

• IPA^(key): /zil/

zil

1. island

From French île. In French, the plural word îles is commonly preceded by a word, such as aux, les or mes, whose final s or x is not pronounced except in front of vowels, where it is pronounced /z/. As a result, îles was reanalyzed as having /z/ at the beginning..

zil

1. island

• zilwa (islander)

From Latin caelum.

• IPA^(key): /θil/

zil m

1. sky
   • November 2012, Augusto Ancarani, Bon Nadel in la Ludla, il Papiro, page 5:

     In zil u gn’ era l’ombra d’una stèla;

     In the sky there wasn’t even a shadow of a star;

2. heaven
   • 2024, Franco Alpini, Andrea Alpini, La Bébia In Dialét Rumagnól, Genesis 1:1:

     In te prinzipi Dio e creét i zil e la tèra.

     In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

From Ottoman Turkish زل (zil), perhaps from Persian زیر (zir).

zil (definite accusative zili, plural ziller)

1. (door) bell
2. cymbal

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2014-10-24) “zil”, in Nişanyan Sözlük, retrieved 2016-12-20

• zill

From Middle English self, from Old English self.

• IPA^(key): /zɪɫ/

zil

1. self

• meezil
• yerzel
• himzil
• itzel
• ourzels
• theezil
• aamzil

• 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 81