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Adjective [Middle English]

IPA: /ˈiːdəl/ Forms: ydele [plural], ydele [singular, weak]
Etymology: From Old English īdel, from Proto-West Germanic *īdal, from Proto-Germanic *īdalaz. Etymology templates: {{etymid|enm|empty}}, {{inh|enm|ang|īdel}} Old English īdel, {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*īdal}} Proto-West Germanic *īdal, {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*īdalaz}} Proto-Germanic *īdalaz Head templates: {{head|enm|adjective|plural and weak singular|ydele||{{{2}}}||{{{3}}}|head=}} ydel (plural and weak singular ydele), {{enm-adj|ydele}} ydel (plural and weak singular ydele)
  1. vain, worthless, pointless
    Sense id: en-ydel-enm-adj-jeUtI~F5
  2. empty, void, vacant
    Sense id: en-ydel-enm-adj-2P7v0FPQ
  3. idle, inactive
    Sense id: en-ydel-enm-adj-VYu7WpJc
  4. lazy, sluggish
    Sense id: en-ydel-enm-adj-9LEKOykw
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: ydelly, ydelnesse, ydelschipe

Noun [Middle English]

IPA: /ˈiːdəl/
Etymology: From Old English īdel, from Proto-West Germanic *īdal, from Proto-Germanic *īdalaz. Etymology templates: {{etymid|enm|empty}}, {{inh|enm|ang|īdel}} Old English īdel, {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*īdal}} Proto-West Germanic *īdal, {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*īdalaz}} Proto-Germanic *īdalaz Head templates: {{head|enm|nouns|g=|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} ydel, {{enm-noun|-}} ydel (uncountable)
  1. (rare) uselessness, waste Tags: rare, uncountable
    Sense id: en-ydel-enm-noun-enm:idleness Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 9 31 8 1 50 2 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 11 21 3 0 62 2 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 4 11 2 0 81 2
  2. (rare) idleness, inactivity Tags: rare, uncountable
    Sense id: en-ydel-enm-noun-enm:idleness1
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
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      "word": "idyl"
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      "word": "idyll"
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      "word": "ydil"
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    {
      "word": "ydill"
    },
    {
      "word": "ydul"
    },
    {
      "word": "ydull"
    }
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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-28 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (65a6e81 and 0dbea76). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.