idel

• dicel (Valverdeñu)
• idil (Mañegu, Lagarteiru)

From Old Galician-Portuguese dizer (“to say”), from Latin dīcō (“to say; to tell”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to show, point out”). Genetically close to Portuguese dizer and Galician dicir, but shares more areal features with Extremaduran izil.

• IPA^(key): /iˈdel/
• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: i‧del

idel

1. (Mañegu, Lagarteiru) to say; to tell
   • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Chapter 3: Radós:

     A radón mais grandi pa defendela é que é nossa LENGUA MATERNA, a “primeira lengua que un indivíduu aprendi de maneira ínnconscienti duranti a sua infancia” i en ela han aprindiu a idel as primeiras palabras […]

     The greatest reason to defend it is that it is our NATIVE LANGUAGE, the “first language that an individual learns in an unconscious manner during his infancy” and in it learned how to say his first words […]

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN, page 159

idel

1. alternative form of ydel (“empty”)

idel

1. alternative form of ydel (“idleness”)

idel

1. (Early Middle English, Northern) alternative form of ydole

From Proto-Germanic *īdalaz. Cognate with Old Frisian īdel, Old Saxon īdal, Dutch ijdel, Old High German ītal.

• IPA^(key): /ˈiː.del/

īdel (superlative īdelst)

1. empty, void; bereft

   īdelhende ― empty-handed

   • 10th century, The Wanderer:

     Ȳþde swā þisne eardġeard · ælda Sċyppend
     oþþæt burgwara · breahtma lēase
     eald enta ġeweorc · īdlu stōdon.

     Thus, Creator of men was destroying this world
     until works of old giants, lacking of
     citizens' noises, stood empty.

2. worthless, useless, vain

   īdelbliss ― vain joy

   īdelġielp ― vain glory, arrogance

   īdelsprǣċe ― idle-speaking, talkative

• Middle English: ydel, idel, idil, idill, idul, idyl, idyll, ydell, ydil, ydill, ydul, ydull
  • English: idle
  • Scots: idle

īdel n

1. idleness, vanity, futility, frivolity

Strong a-stem:

• on īdel

• Middle English: idel, ydel

From Middle Low German idel (“empty, pure, vain”). Compare English idle (“empty, vacant”), German eidel (“empty, vain”).

idel (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) empty, void

• intig
• tom

• idelhet

idel (not comparable)

1. nothing but, constant, just

   Synonyms: bara, blott, enbart, endast, uteslutande

   Det var idel nederlag

   It was nothing but defeats

• vara idel öra

• idelig

• “idel”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “idel”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “idel”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

idel

1. vain, abortive (coming to naught, failing in its effect)

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

• “idel”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011