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Ul
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ul
English
Noun
ul (plural uls)
Verb
ul (third-person singular simple present uls, present participle uling, simple past and past participle uled)
Alternative forms
- (upload): UL , u/l , U/L
Antonyms
- (computing): dl
Anagrams
Albanian
Alternative forms
- unj
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *wala, from *wol-o-, o-grade of Proto-Indo-European *wel- ‘press together’ (compare Lithuanian valýti ‘to clean’, Ancient Greek εἰλέω (eiléō) ‘press together’). Variant unj is from *ulnj, from Proto-Albanian *walnja, a causative of the previous.
Verb
ul (first-person singular past tense ula, participle ulur)
- to sit down
- to lower
- to bend or tilt down
- to seat; land an airplane
- to decrease, reduce, diminish
- (figuratively) to demote; degrade, debase
Derived terms
Related terms
Assan
Noun
ul
References
- Languages and Prehistory of Central Siberia (2004, ISBN 9027247765), page 139: "Assan ul ‘river’, Ket ūl ‘water’"
Kott
Noun
ul
Reference
- Stefan Georg, Yeniseic Languages and the Siberian Linguistic Area
- Robert Gordon Latham, Elements of comparative philology, page 95, 1862
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ul/
Noun
ul m inan
Declension
declension of ul