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devel

See also: Devel

English

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Noun

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devel (plural devels)

  1. (Scotland) Alternative spelling of devvel (a hard blow)

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devel (third-person singular simple present devels, present participle develling, simple past and past participle develled)

  1. (Scotland) Alternative spelling of devvel

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Etymology

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    From Old English dēofol, dēoful, from earlier dīobul, from Proto-West Germanic *diubul, from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos).

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    • IPA(key): /ˈdeːvəl/, /ˈdɛvəl/, /deːl/

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    devel (plural develes or defles or develen)

    1. Satan, Lucifer (in Early ME, without the definite article)
      • a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Summoner's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 1693–1696:
        Right so as bees out swarmen from an hyve, / Out of the develes ers ther gonne dryve / Twenty thousand freres on a route / And thurghout helle swarmed al aboute...
        Just like bees swarm from a hive / Out of the devil's arse there were driven / Twenty thousand friars on a rout / And throughout hell they swarmed all about...
    2. A devil; an evil creature that resides in the Christian hell.
    3. A pagan or heretical god; a deity considered to be false or an idol.
    4. (figurative) A malicious or sinful person; one who is evil.
    5. (rare) A fantastic beast or monstrous creature.

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    • English: devil (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: deil, deel, deevil
    • Yola: deevil, deel (syncopated)

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    Romani

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    Etymology

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    Two etymologies have been proposed:

    1. Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀤𑁂𑀯𑀉𑀮 (devaüla), from Sanskrit देवकुल (devakula).[1]
    2. Inherited from Sanskrit देवता (devatā).[2][3][4]

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    devel m (accusative devles, nominative plural devla, accusative plural devlen)

    1. god[1][3][5][6]
    2. sky[3][5]
    3. heaven[3][5]

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    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jules Bloch (1920) “devaḷ deuḷ”, in Dev Raj Chanana, transl., The Formation of the Marāṭhī Language, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House, published 2010, →ISBN, →OCLC, retrieved September 1, 2021, page 351, →ISBN
    2. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “dēvátā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 373
    3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “devèl”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 70b
    4. ^ Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎[1], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 39
    5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o dev/el¹, -les m. -la, -len = o de/l²³, -vles m. -vla, -vlen”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 124ab
    6. ^ Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “devel, ～a”, in ニューエクスプレスプラス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 148a
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