ill – English noun declension

English noun forms of ill

Noun: ill
Singularill
Pluralills

Sample Sentences

  • Music won't solve all the world's ills, but it can make them easier to bear.
  • That makes us rather bear those ills we have / Than fly to others that we know not of. [c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:]
  • Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
  • I wouldn't want you to do me ill.
  • Loue worketh no ill to his neighbour, therefore loue is the fulfilling of the Law. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 13:10:]
  • Strong virtue, like strong nature, struggles still, / Exerts itself, and then throws off the ill. [1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, (please specify the page number):]
  • I am incapacitated by rheumatism and other ills.

Etymology

1. From Middle English ille (“evil; wicked”), from Old Norse íllr (adjective), ílla (adverb), ílt (noun), from Proto-Germanic *ilhilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁elḱ- (whence Latin ulcus (“sore”), Ancient Greek ἕλκος (hélkos, “wound, ulcer”), Sanskrit अर्शस् (árśas, “hemorrhoids”)).
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Scots and Yola ill, Danish ilde (“bad”), Faroese, Icelandic illur (“bad, ill, wicked”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk ille (“bad”), Swedish illa (“badly; poorly”). See: Middle English Nouns 'ille', Old Norse Nouns 'íllr', Latin Nouns 'ulcus', Ancient Greek Nouns 'ἕλκος', Icelandic Nouns 'illur'.

Verbs referencing "ill"

Latin Nouns ulcus.