elle
French
/a/
pronoun
Definitions
- she
- it (feminine gender third-person singular subject pronoun)
- disjunctive form of elle; her; à elle = hers
Etymology
Inherited from Old French ele inherited from Latin illa (that, that one).
Origin
Latin
illa
Gloss
that, that one
Concept
Semantic Field
Miscellaneous function words
Ontological Category
Other
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *illaei Latin
- illa Latin
- ella Italian
- ella Spanish, Castilian
- *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European
- ele Old French
- -a Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- aia Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- ea Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- elu Ido
- e-lờ Vietnamese
- ela Old Portuguese
- lle Old Portuguese
- á Old Portuguese
- ea Aromanian
- ella Asturian
- ela Old Occitan
- elha Old Occitan
- ddà Sicilian
- idda Sicilian
- eła Venetian
- ła Venetian
- jala Dalmatian
- lai Bourguignon
- gila Istriot
- ella Corsican
- la Corsican
- olle Old Latin
- a Aragonese
- ella Aragonese
- la Aragonese
- eilha Mirandese
- lê Emilian