eļ

• IPA^(key): [ɛʎ]

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eļ m (invariable)

1. The Latvian name of the Latin script letter Ļ/ļ.

• Latvian letter names:

  a (A), garais ā (Ā), bē (B), cē (C), čē (Č), dē (D), e (E), garais ē (Ē), ef (F), gā (G), ģē (Ģ), hā (H), i (I), garais ī (Ī), jē (J), kā (K), ķē (Ķ), el (L), eļ (Ļ), em (M), en (N), eņ (Ņ), o (O), pē (P), er (R), es (S), eš (Š), tē (T), u (U), garais ū (Ū), vē (V), zē (Z), žē (Ž)

• IPA^(key): /ˈeʎ/, [ˈeʎ]

Apparently borrowed from Latvian elle. Ultimately from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German. See etymology at Latvian elle.

eļ

1. hell
   • Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “eļ”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎^[1] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra

     ta palāb eļ tulsõ

     he is burning up (lit. "burns [as if] in hell's flame") / he is burning in hell (depending on context)

This word in one instance is indicated as meaning "oil" (in the compound "almond oil") and with a different inflectional type (with "grade shift" – lengthening of the stem consonant different from inflection of the "hell" sense as shown above.) However, eļļõ of the "sieldõ" type seems to be a much more prevalent word to refer to oil.

• Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “eļ”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎^[2] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra

See eļļõ.

eļ

1. inflection of eļļõ:
   1. first/second/third-person singular negative form
   2. second-person singular imperative