fille
common noun
Syllable Decomposition
fillefrom the Latin filia, the feminine of filius 'son'. The word, which was pronounced /ˈfi.li.a/, had a yod develop between the l and the final a in the 1st century, modifying the pronunciation to /ˈfi.lja/. Then this yod combined with the l to give a palatal l and the word was pronounced /ˈfi.ʎa/ until the end of the 19th century. In his dictionary, Émile Littré made many warnings to maintain this phoneme, which proves that it was disappearing and evolving into a yod.
Definitions
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Masculine
garçonfils
Plural
filles
Translations
german:Tochter
english:daughter
arabic:بنت
chinese:女儿
korean:딸
danish:datter
spanish:hija
finnish:tytär
greek:κόρη
hebrew:בת
hindi:बेटी
italian:figlia
japanese:娘
dutch:dochter
polish:córka
portuguese:filha
russian:дочь
swedish:dotter
ukrainian:донька