yll

See also: Yll and YLL

Translingual

Symbol

yll

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Yil.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Yil terms

Albanian

Yje.

Alternative forms

• hyll
• uvill, uj, ydh — eastern Gheg
• ill, ull, (plural) ile — Arvanitika, Arbëresh
• (Budi) yyll, (Buzuku) uill — obsolete

Etymology

From Old Albanian ȳll (/yːɫ/), from Proto-Albanian *usla, from either

• Proto-Indo-European *h₁us-los (“the burning one”) (compare Old English ysle (“hot ashes”)), from *h₁ews- (“to burn”) (compare Latin ūrere, Ancient Greek εὕω (heúō, “to singe”)); or
• from Proto-Indo-European *h₂us-los (“the glowing one”) (compare Sanskrit उ॒स्र (usrá, “reddish, ruddy; bright; matutinal”)), from *h₂ews- (“to dawn”) (compare English Easter, Latin aurōra, and Lithuanian aušrà).

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /yɫ/

Noun

yll m (plural yje, definite ylli, definite plural yjet)

1. (astronomy) star
2. (figurative) fate, luck

   Synonyms: fat, lumturi

3. (colloquial) luminary
4. (colloquial) reputation

   Synonym: famë

Declension

Declension of yll

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	yll	ylli	yje	yjet
accusative		yllin
dative	ylli	yllit	yjeve	yjeve
ablative			yjesh

Hyponyms

• bishtyll (“comet”)
• yll deti (“starfish”)
• yll i mollës (“apple blossom”)
• yll me bisht (“comet”)
• ylli i karvanit (“morning star, Venus”)
• ylli polar (“northern star”)

Derived terms

• yej (“stay awake all night”)
• yjësi
• yjkë (“starlet; speck, spot”)
• yjor (“stellar”)
• yllak (“stellate, star-shaped”)
• ylle
• yllës
• yllëz (“starlet; sprocket”)
• yllkë
• ylltoj
• yllth (“asterisk”)

Compounds

• yjeplotë
• yllnajë

Further reading

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[2], 1980
• Jani Thomai et al. (2006), “yll”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), Tiranë: Akademia e Shkencave e Shqipërisë
• Newmark, Leonard (1999), “yll”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎^[3], Oxford: Oxford University Press