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How to pronounce "eel"?

eel English[i?l]American[il]n. Eel; eel homophonic: Yier

Memory method:

1. peel => p + eel => eel's skin => peel off the eel's skin.

2. reel => r + eel => Because the eel is a snake-shaped fish, and the snake shape is a long shape with winding properties.

English etymology:

eel (n.)Old English ?l "eel," from Proto-Germanic *?laz (cognates: Old Frisian -el, Middle Dutch ael, Dutch aal, Old Saxon and Old High German al, German Aal, Old Norse all), which is of unknown origin, with no certain cognates outside Germanic. Used figuratively for slipperiness from at least 1520s.