eļļõ

Etymology
Possibly borrowed from. Ultimately from or  from. Compare 🇨🇬. Suhonen lists the form as a borrowing from Latvian or German. This entry uses the form listed in for the "oil" sense.

Noun



 * 1) oil
 * eļļõks eļļõb
 * oiling, greasing up with oil
 * oiling, greasing up with oil

Usage notes
The word is in one instance indicated as meaning oil (in the compound "almond oil"), however, with a different inflectional type (type 103 – with consonant shift – lengthening of the stem consonant different from inflection of the "hell" sense of the word .) However,  of the sieldõ type seems to be a much more prevalent word to refer to oil.

Verb

 * 1) to oil
 * mašīnt eļļõb, laz vȯlkõ kievām
 * [you] oil the car in order for it to be easy
 * [you] oil the car in order for it to be easy