jeli

See also: jęli and jēli

English

Etymology

From Bambara jeli.

Noun

jeli (plural jelis)

1. A member of the hereditary caste of griots among the Mandé peoples, whose social roles include transmitting their people's oral traditions and playing traditional music (jeliya).

   Synonym: griot

   • 2000, Eric Charry, Mande Music: Traditional and Modern Music of the Maninka and Mandinka of Western Africa, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 3:

     Jeliya (the art of the jeli) goes back to the thirteenth-century origins of the Mali empire, although the institution of the griot in West Africa probably stems from the earlier Ghana empire (also known as Wagadu), which declined in the late eleventh century.

Bambara

Noun

jeli (plural jeliw)

1. A member of the hereditary caste of griots among the Mandé peoples, whose social roles include transmitting their people's oral traditions and playing traditional music (jeliya).

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic жалити (žaliti), from Proto-Slavic *žaliti. Compare Bulgarian жаля (žalja), Serbo-Croatian žaliti.

Verb

a jeli (third-person singular present jele, past participle jelit) 4th conj.

1. to wail, to mourn

Conjugation

    conjugation of jeli (fourth conjugation, no infix)

infinitive			a jeli
gerund			jelind
past participle			jelit
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	jel	jeli	jele	jelim	jeliți	jel
	imperfect	jeleam	jeleai	jelea	jeleam	jeleați	jeleau
	simple perfect	jelii	jeliși	jeli	jelirăm	jelirăți	jeliră
	pluperfect	jelisem	jeliseși	jelise	jeliserăm	jeliserăți	jeliseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să jel	să jeli	să jelă	să jelim	să jeliți	să jelă
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		jele			jeliți
	negative		nu jeli			nu jeliți

See also

• jelui
• plânge
• boci
• văita

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

jeli

1. dative/locative singular of jela

Participle

jeli (Cyrillic spelling јели)

1. masculine plural active past participle of jesti

Silesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɛ.li/
• Rhymes: -ɛli
• Syllabification: je‧li

Conjunction

jeli

1. Alternative form of jeśli

Further reading

• jeli in silling.org

Welsh

Alternative forms

• sieli

Etymology

Borrowed from English jelly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛli/

Noun

jeli m (plural jelis, not mutable)

1. jelly; jello (dessert made by boiling gelatine, sugar and some flavouring and allowing it to set)

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “jeli”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies