krill

See also: Krill and krrilë

English
An Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba.

Etymology

From Norwegian kril (“fry of fish”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kɹɪl/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪl

Noun

krill (plural krill or krills)

  1. any of several small marine crustacean species of plankton in the order Euphausiacea in the class Malacostraca.

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French

Pronunciation
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Noun

krill m (plural krills)

  1. krill

Hungarian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈkrilː]
  • Rhymes: -ilː

Noun

krill (plural krillek)

  1. krill

Declension
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative krill krillek
accusative krillt krilleket
dative krillnek krilleknek
instrumental krillel krillekkel
causal-final krillért krillekért
translative krillé krillekké
terminative krillig krillekig
essive-formal krillként krillekként
essive-modal — —
inessive krillben krillekben
superessive krillen krilleken
adessive krillnél krilleknél
illative krillbe krillekbe
sublative krillre krillekre
allative krillhez krillekhez
elative krillből krillekből
delative krillről krillekről
ablative krilltől krillektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular		 krillé krilleké
non-attributive
possessive - plural		 krilléi krillekéi
Possessive forms of krill
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. krillem krilljeim
2nd person sing. krilled krilljeid
3rd person sing. krillje krilljei
1st person plural krillünk krilljeink
2nd person plural krilletek krilljeitek
3rd person plural krilljük krilljeik

Synonyms

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms
  • (non-standard since 2005) kril

Etymology

Uncertain, related to dialectal kril (krusning); compare with Icelandic kríli.

Noun

krill m (definite singular krillen, indefinite plural kriller, definite plural krillene)

  1. krill, several species of crustacean plankton of the order Euphausiacea.
  2. (dialectal) synonym of småsild (sprats)

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Portuguese

Noun

krill m (plural krills or krill)

  1. krill (small marine crustacean of the class Malacostraca)

Swedish

Etymology

From Norwegian krill.

Noun

krill n

  1. (usually collectively) krill

Declension
Declension of krill 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative krill krillen — —
Genitive krills krillens — —

References
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