jel

• jeal

Clipping of jealous

• enPR: jĕl, IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛl/

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• Rhymes: -ɛl
• Homophones: gel, jell

jel (comparative more jel, superlative most jel)

1. (UK, slang) jealous

   Synonym: jelly

   • 2012 May 12, Kate Middleton looked amaze at London Olympic Gala concert, totally jel of the dress!, OK! Magazine
   • 2015, Dani K., Footballers and Louboutins, Sly Fox / Ravenswood Publishing, →ISBN:

     What more could a girl want? Everyone that I knew was either so happy for me, or completely well jel of me.

   • 2016 January 6, “Check out the bod that launched a bikini empire”, in Daily Star:

     We can't figure out if we're more jel of her insane bod or luxurious lifestyle.

• IPA^(key): [ˈjɛl]

jel

1. masculine singular past active participle of jet

jel

1. to change

From Proto-Uralic *jelkä (“trace”). Cognates include Finnish jälki and Estonian jälg.

• IPA^(key): [ˈjɛl]
• Rhymes: -ɛl

jel (plural jelek)

1. sign, symbol
2. (grammar) non-terminal marker, inflectional suffix or affix (termination) marking a morphological feature of a word that does not change its syntactic role (including tense: past/future vs. present, number: plural vs. singular, degree: comparative/superlative vs. positive, mood: conditional/subjunctive vs. indicative, possession: my/your/etc., ownership: -é, and specification: -ik)

   Hypernym: toldalék

   Coordinate terms: képző, rag

Note: the primary accusative form is jelet; the shorter variant is mostly found in the phrase jelt ad (“to signal”) only.

• jel in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

• lej

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jel

1. do (imperative)

• (Courland) je'l

From Proto-Finnic *elo. Cognates include Finnish elo.

jel

1. life

jel

1. substitute, successor, replacement

• Hofling, Charles Andrew (2011). Mopan Maya–Spanish–English Dictionary, University of Utah Press.

• gel
• jol

jel

1. Contraction of je + le (I […] it)
   • 12^th Century, Unknown, Raoul de Cambrai:

     « Jel vuel savoir, » ce dist li sor Gr.
     « Jel vous dirai, » B. li respondi.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Borrowed from English gel

• IPA^(key): /ʒæl/

jel (definite accusative jeli, plural jeller)

1. gel

jel

1. direction