"bił" meaning in Navajo

See bił in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /pɪ̀ɬ/
Etymology: From Proto-Athabaskan *əɬ. Compare Wailaki -ł (third-person form bił), Dena'ina veł. Etymology templates: {{inh|nv|ath-pro|*əɬ}} Proto-Athabaskan *əɬ, {{cog|wlk|-ł}} Wailaki -ł, {{cog|tfn|veł}} Dena'ina veł Head templates: {{head|nv|noun}} bił
  1. drowsiness, sleepiness Derived forms: bił hastiin, bił hastįį (english: sleepy man (a spirit that lies in a woman’s unmade bed and calls her back to bed all day long)), bił asdzą́ą́ (english: sleepy woman (a spirit that lies in a man’s unmade bed and calls him back to bed all day long))
    Sense id: en-bił-nv-noun-HbEYa0Qn Categories (other): Navajo postpositions Disambiguation of Navajo postpositions: 44 44 11

Postposition

IPA: /pɪ̀ɬ/
Etymology: From Proto-Athabaskan *əɬ. Compare Wailaki -ł (third-person form bił), Dena'ina veł. Etymology templates: {{inh|nv|ath-pro|*əɬ}} Proto-Athabaskan *əɬ, {{cog|wlk|-ł}} Wailaki -ł, {{cog|tfn|veł}} Dena'ina veł Head templates: {{head|nv|postposition}} bił Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], shił [first-person, singular], nihił [duoplural, first-person], nił [second-person, singular], nihił [duoplural, second-person], bił [third-person], yił [fourth-person], hił [fourth-person], ił [fourth-person, singular], - [duoplural, fourth-person], ádił [reflexive, singular], - [duoplural, reflexive], - [reciprocal, singular], ahił [duoplural, reciprocal]
  1. with him/her; in his/her company
    Sense id: en-bił-nv-postp-TEyw~BfV Categories (other): Navajo postpositions Disambiguation of Navajo postpositions: 44 44 11
  2. with them; in their company
    Sense id: en-bił-nv-postp-0xR8Jz0g Categories (other): Navajo entries with incorrect language header, Navajo postpositions, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Navajo entries with incorrect language header: 0 0 100 Disambiguation of Navajo postpositions: 44 44 11 Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 0 0 100 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 0 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: bił éʼélʼíní (english: flour), bił haʼnigáhí (english: hominy), bił níjoobałí (english: cell phone), bił níjooyisí (english: cell phone), tsin bił nihwiiʼeeł (english: driftwood)
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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "flour",
      "translation": "flour",
      "word": "bił éʼélʼíní"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "hominy",
      "translation": "hominy",
      "word": "bił haʼnigáhí"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "cell phone",
      "translation": "cell phone",
      "word": "bił níjoobałí"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "cell phone",
      "translation": "cell phone",
      "word": "bił níjooyisí"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "driftwood",
      "translation": "driftwood",
      "word": "tsin bił nihwiiʼeeł"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "*əɬ",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Athabaskan/əɬ"
    ],
    [
      "-ł",
      "-ł#Wailaki"
    ],
    [
      "bił",
      "bił#Wailaki"
    ],
    [
      "veł",
      "veł#Dena'ina"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nv",
        "2": "ath-pro",
        "3": "*əɬ"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "wlk",
        "2": "-ł"
      },
      "expansion": "Wailaki -ł",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tfn",
        "2": "veł"
      },
      "expansion": "Dena'ina veł",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Athabaskan *əɬ. Compare Wailaki -ł (third-person form bił), Dena'ina veł.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "l-self",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shił",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nihił",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "duoplural",
        "first-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nił",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nihił",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "duoplural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bił",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yił",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "fourth-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hił",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "fourth-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ił",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "fourth-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "duoplural",
        "fourth-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ádił",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "reflexive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "duoplural",
        "reflexive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "reciprocal",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ahił",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "duoplural",
        "reciprocal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nv",
        "2": "postposition"
      },
      "expansion": "bił",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Navajo",
  "lang_code": "nv",
  "pos": "postp",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "44 44 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Navajo postpositions",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "with him/her; in his/her company"
      ],
      "id": "en-bił-nv-postp-TEyw~BfV",
      "links": [
        [
          "with",
          "with"
        ],
        [
          "him",
          "him"
        ],
        [
          "her",
          "her"
        ],
        [
          "company",
          "company"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "0 0 100",
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          "name": "Navajo entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "44 44 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Navajo postpositions",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 0 100",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 4 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 0 100",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "with them; in their company"
      ],
      "id": "en-bił-nv-postp-0xR8Jz0g",
      "links": [
        [
          "with",
          "with"
        ],
        [
          "them",
          "them"
        ],
        [
          "company",
          "company"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pɪ̀ɬ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bił"
}

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  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "*əɬ",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Athabaskan/əɬ"
    ],
    [
      "-ł",
      "-ł#Wailaki"
    ],
    [
      "bił",
      "bił#Wailaki"
    ],
    [
      "veł",
      "veł#Dena'ina"
    ]
  ],
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      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tfn",
        "2": "veł"
      },
      "expansion": "Dena'ina veł",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Athabaskan *əɬ. Compare Wailaki -ł (third-person form bił), Dena'ina veł.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nv",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "bił",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Navajo",
  "lang_code": "nv",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "44 44 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Navajo postpositions",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "bił hastiin"
        },
        {
          "english": "sleepy man (a spirit that lies in a woman’s unmade bed and calls her back to bed all day long)",
          "translation": "sleepy man (a spirit that lies in a woman’s unmade bed and calls her back to bed all day long)",
          "word": "bił hastįį"
        },
        {
          "english": "sleepy woman (a spirit that lies in a man’s unmade bed and calls him back to bed all day long)",
          "translation": "sleepy woman (a spirit that lies in a man’s unmade bed and calls him back to bed all day long)",
          "word": "bił asdzą́ą́"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              3
            ]
          ],
          "english": "I am sleepy.",
          "text": "Bił nisin",
          "translation": "I am sleepy.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              4,
              7
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Are you sleepy?",
          "text": "Daʼ bił nínízin?",
          "translation": "Are you sleepy?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              3
            ]
          ],
          "english": "He/she/it is sleepy.",
          "text": "Bił nízin",
          "translation": "He/she/it is sleepy.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "drowsiness, sleepiness"
      ],
      "id": "en-bił-nv-noun-HbEYa0Qn",
      "links": [
        [
          "drowsiness",
          "drowsiness"
        ],
        [
          "sleepiness",
          "sleepiness"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pɪ̀ɬ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bił"
}
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    "Navajo lemmas",
    "Navajo nouns",
    "Navajo postpositions",
    "Navajo terms derived from Proto-Athabaskan",
    "Navajo terms inherited from Proto-Athabaskan",
    "Pages with 4 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "english": "flour",
      "translation": "flour",
      "word": "bił éʼélʼíní"
    },
    {
      "english": "hominy",
      "translation": "hominy",
      "word": "bił haʼnigáhí"
    },
    {
      "english": "cell phone",
      "translation": "cell phone",
      "word": "bił níjoobałí"
    },
    {
      "english": "cell phone",
      "translation": "cell phone",
      "word": "bił níjooyisí"
    },
    {
      "english": "driftwood",
      "translation": "driftwood",
      "word": "tsin bił nihwiiʼeeł"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "*əɬ",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Athabaskan/əɬ"
    ],
    [
      "-ł",
      "-ł#Wailaki"
    ],
    [
      "bił",
      "bił#Wailaki"
    ],
    [
      "veł",
      "veł#Dena'ina"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nv",
        "2": "ath-pro",
        "3": "*əɬ"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Athabaskan *əɬ",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "wlk",
        "2": "-ł"
      },
      "expansion": "Wailaki -ł",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tfn",
        "2": "veł"
      },
      "expansion": "Dena'ina veł",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Athabaskan *əɬ. Compare Wailaki -ł (third-person form bił), Dena'ina veł.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "l-self",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shił",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nihił",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "duoplural",
        "first-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nił",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nihił",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "duoplural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bił",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yił",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "fourth-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hił",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "fourth-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ił",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "fourth-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "duoplural",
        "fourth-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ádił",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "reflexive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "duoplural",
        "reflexive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "reciprocal",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ahił",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "duoplural",
        "reciprocal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nv",
        "2": "postposition"
      },
      "expansion": "bił",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Navajo",
  "lang_code": "nv",
  "pos": "postp",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "with him/her; in his/her company"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "with",
          "with"
        ],
        [
          "him",
          "him"
        ],
        [
          "her",
          "her"
        ],
        [
          "company",
          "company"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "with them; in their company"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "with",
          "with"
        ],
        [
          "them",
          "them"
        ],
        [
          "company",
          "company"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pɪ̀ɬ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bił"
}

{
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    "Navajo entries with incorrect language header",
    "Navajo lemmas",
    "Navajo nouns",
    "Navajo postpositions",
    "Navajo terms derived from Proto-Athabaskan",
    "Navajo terms inherited from Proto-Athabaskan",
    "Pages with 4 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "bił hastiin"
    },
    {
      "english": "sleepy man (a spirit that lies in a woman’s unmade bed and calls her back to bed all day long)",
      "translation": "sleepy man (a spirit that lies in a woman’s unmade bed and calls her back to bed all day long)",
      "word": "bił hastįį"
    },
    {
      "english": "sleepy woman (a spirit that lies in a man’s unmade bed and calls him back to bed all day long)",
      "translation": "sleepy woman (a spirit that lies in a man’s unmade bed and calls him back to bed all day long)",
      "word": "bił asdzą́ą́"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "*əɬ",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Athabaskan/əɬ"
    ],
    [
      "-ł",
      "-ł#Wailaki"
    ],
    [
      "bił",
      "bił#Wailaki"
    ],
    [
      "veł",
      "veł#Dena'ina"
    ]
  ],
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        "2": "ath-pro",
        "3": "*əɬ"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Athabaskan *əɬ",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "wlk",
        "2": "-ł"
      },
      "expansion": "Wailaki -ł",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tfn",
        "2": "veł"
      },
      "expansion": "Dena'ina veł",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Athabaskan *əɬ. Compare Wailaki -ł (third-person form bił), Dena'ina veł.",
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nv",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "bił",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Navajo",
  "lang_code": "nv",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Navajo terms with audio pronunciation",
        "Navajo terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              3
            ]
          ],
          "english": "I am sleepy.",
          "text": "Bił nisin",
          "translation": "I am sleepy.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              4,
              7
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Are you sleepy?",
          "text": "Daʼ bił nínízin?",
          "translation": "Are you sleepy?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              3
            ]
          ],
          "english": "He/she/it is sleepy.",
          "text": "Bił nízin",
          "translation": "He/she/it is sleepy.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "drowsiness, sleepiness"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "drowsiness",
          "drowsiness"
        ],
        [
          "sleepiness",
          "sleepiness"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pɪ̀ɬ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bił"
}

Download raw JSONL data for bił meaning in Navajo (5.0kB)

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