chilli

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɪli/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Homophone: chili

Noun

chilli (plural chillis or chillies)

  1. (Commonwealth spelling) Alternative spelling of chili.
    • 1996 June 23, Magdalene Lum, The Straits Times:
      Many Singaporeans have fond memories of eating chilli crabs and cockles at its Upper East Coast Road premises, not far from the old Bedok Road, as recently as the early ‘ 80s.

Derived terms

Translations

Central Nahuatl

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Classical Nahuatl chilli.

Noun

chilli

  1. chili pepper.

Classical Nahuatl

Etymology

From Proto-Nahuan *čiil-lɨ.[1] Possibly related to or derived from tzilīni (“to sound (of a bell)”), alluding to the hollow rattling sound of ripe chilies in the wind.[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃiːlːi]

Noun

chīlli inan (plural chīlli)

  1. chili pepper

Inflection

Possessive forms of chilli
Singular Plural
1st person nochīl tochīl
2nd person mochīl amochīl
3rd person īchīl īnchīl
impersonal tēchīl

Derived terms

Terms derived from chīlli

Descendants

  • Spanish: chile

References

  1. ^ Campbell, Lyle; Langacker, Ronald W. (October 1978), “Proto-Aztecan Vowels: Part III”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 44, number 4, page 263 of 262–279: “(27) chile *čiil-”
  2. ^ Stubbs, Brian D. (2020) [2011], “429. *ciLV 'chile'”, in Uto-Aztecan: A comparative vocabulary‎[1], revised online edition, Flower Mound, Texas: Shumway Family History Services, page 113

Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

Etymology

Cognate with Classical Nahuatl chīlli.

Noun

chilli

  1. chili pepper.

Derived terms

Polish

Etymology

    Unadapted borrowing from English chilli.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʂi.li/
    • Rhymes: -ili
    • Syllabification: chi‧lli

    Noun

    chilli n (indeclinable)

    1. alternative spelling of chili

    Further reading

    • “chilli”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
    • “chilli”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[3] (in Polish)
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