weel
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /wiːl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /wil/
- Homophones: weal; we'll (stressed form); wheel, wheal (wine–whine merger)
- Rhymes: -iːl
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English wele, wyle, welle, likely a fusion of Old Norse vél ("device"; compare Icelandic vél (“a contrivance to catch fish”)) and Middle English welwe, wilwe (“a weir, trap, or other device made of willow branches”), from Old English wilige, wylige (“basket”), related to Old English welig (“willow”).
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]weel (plural weels)
Derived terms
[edit]Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “weel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English wel, weel, wele, wæl, from Old English wǣl (“weel, a deep pool, gulf, deep water of a stream or of the sea”). Cognate with Scots weil, weel (“pool, eddy, whirlpool”), Middle Low German wêl (“a pool”), Middle Low German wêlen (“to swirl, whirl”).
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]weel (plural weels)
Etymology 3
[edit]Verb
[edit]weel
- Pronunciation spelling of will, representing Latino-accented English.
Middle English
[edit]Adverb
[edit]weel
- Alternative form of wel
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Myllers Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- He thakked hire aboute the lendes weel
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Adjective
[edit]weel
- Alternative form of wel
Scots
[edit]Adjective
[edit]weel (comparative better, superlative best)
- Well.
Adverb
[edit]weel (comparative better, superlative best)
- Well.
- 1794, Robert Burns, A Red, Red Rose:
- And fare thee weel, my only Luve
And fare thee weel a while!- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
[edit]- guid an weel (“well and good”)
- weel-kent (“well-known”)
Interjection
[edit]weel
- Well.
Yola
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /wiːɫ/
- Homophones: wheel, while
Verb
[edit]weel
- Alternative form of woul
References
[edit]- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 77
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