fil.
a file (a tool)
Meaning & usage
a file (a tool)
Where this word comes from
From Middle Low German vīle, from Old Saxon fila, from Proto-West Germanic *fį̄hlu, from Proto-Germanic *finhlō. Cognate with English file and German Feile.
abbreviation of filmjölk
fil och flingor
any of various other soured milk products
Where this word comes from
Related to Icelandic þél (“fermented milk”), from Old Norse þéttr (“dense, tight”).
a row of objects; most commonly used about moving objects
a section of roadway for a single line of vehicles, a lane
file
Where this word comes from
. Row and lane (a row of vehicles) is one etymology, but as English file suggests computer file has a different etymology. However, the Swedish computer file is sometimes explained as a row of bytes, in attempt to shoehorn this new English loanword into the etymology of the existing word.
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