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From Latin illa, feminine of ille.
ella
From Latin illa, feminine of ille.
ella
Inherited from Latin illa, feminine of ille. Compare Occitan ela (and a medieval variant elha), French elle, Spanish ella.
ella (plural elles)
Catalan personal pronouns and clitics
From Latin illa, feminine form of ille (“that”), from Old Latin olle (“that”). Cognates include Italian ella and Spanish ella.
ella f
- “ella, illa, edda, idda” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa
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ella o
- D. Osborn, D. Dwyer, et J. Donohoe, Lexique Fulfulde (Maasina)-Anglais-Français: Une compilation basée sur racines et tirée de sources existantes, suivie de listes en anglais-fulfulde et français-fulfulde, East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1993.
- M. Niang, Pulaar-English English-Pulaar Standard Dictionary, New York: Hippocrene Books, 1997.
From Old Norse ella, shortened from earlier elligar. Compare ellegar. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *aljaz.
ella
ella
From Latin illa, feminine of ille (“that”).
ella f (plural elle, archaic plural elleno)
- The term has largely fallen out of use in the spoken language, in favor of the oblique form lei.
Italian personal pronouns (alternate)
Number | Person | Gender | Nominative | Reflexive | Accusative | Dative | Locative | Genitive | Disjunctive |
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Singular | third | m | esso1, egli, elli3 | si, s' | lo, l' | gli | vi, v' | ne, n' | esso, sé |
f | essa, ella, Ella2 | la, l' | le, ella3 | essa, sé | |||||
Plural | third | m | essi, eglino3, ellino3, elli3 | si, s' | li | loro | vi, v' | ne, n' | essi, sé |
f | esse, elle3, elleno3 | le | esse, elle,3 sé | ||||||
1 | Refers predominantly to non-humans. | ||||||||
2 | Highly elevated variant of Lei. | ||||||||
3 | Archaic. |
From Proto-Celtic *ɸalnati.
·ella
- unattested by itself; takes various preverbs to form verbs
It is not easy to clearly distinguish between derivatives of this root and derivatives of ·lá (from Proto-Celtic *layeti). See fo·ceird for derivatives of ·lá.
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
·ella (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | ·n-ella |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
ella f
ella
- to move towards
Inherited from Latin illa, feminine of ille.
- Syllabification: e‧lla
ella (plural ellas, masculine él, masculine plural ellos)
- she, her (used subjectively and after prepositions)
- it (used subjectively and after prepositions to refer to feminine nouns)
Spanish personal pronouns
nominative | dative | accusative | disjunctive | ||||
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first person | singular | yo | me | mí1 | |||
plural | masculine2 | nosotros | nos | nosotros | |||
feminine | nosotras | nosotras | |||||
second person | singular | tuteo | tú | te | ti1 | ||
voseo | vos | vos | |||||
formal3 | usted | le, se4 | lo/la5 | usted | |||
plural | familiar6 | masculine2 | vosotros | os | vosotros | ||
feminine | vosotras | vosotras | |||||
formal/general3 | ustedes | les, se4 | los/las5 | ustedes | |||
third person | singular | masculine2 | él | le, se4 | lo | él | |
feminine | ella | la | ella | ||||
neuter | ello7 | lo | ello | ||||
plural | masculine2 | ellos | les, se4 | los | ellos | ||
feminine | ellas | las | ellas | ||||
reflexive | — | se | sí1 |
- Not used with con; conmigo, contigo, and consigo are used instead, respectively
- Like other masculine Spanish words, masculine Spanish pronouns can be used when the gender of the subject is unknown or when the subject is plural and of mixed gender.
- Treated as if it were third-person for purposes of conjugation and reflexivity
- If le or les precedes lo, la, los, or las in a clause, it is replaced with se (e.g., Se lo dije instead of Le lo dije)
- Depending on the implicit gender of the object being referred to
- Used primarily in Spain
- Used only in rare circumstances
- “él”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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