li
Old French
/li/
article
Definitions
- the (masculine nominative singular and plural definite article)
Etymology
Inherited from Latin 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
- el Spanish, Castilian
- él Spanish, Castilian
- ell Catalan, Valencian
- el Galician
- li Norman
- ele Old Portuguese
- el Aromanian
- elu Aromanian
- el Occitan
- el Romansh
- el Asturian
- él Asturian
- li Old Occitan
- elo Venetian
- el Dalmatian
- jal Dalmatian
- lyi 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