yole

English

Noun

yole (plural yoles)

1. (nautical) A Scottish rowing boat that could also use a sail

Anagrams

• Eloy

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch jol or Danish jolle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɔl/

Noun

yole f (plural yoles)

1. (nautical) yawl

Derived terms

• yolier
• yoler

Further reading

• “yole”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Proper noun

yole

1. Alternative form of yol

Yola

Alternative forms

• yold

Etymology

From Middle English yolde, yolle, from Old English eald, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós, a suffixed form of *h₂el- (“grow, nourish”). Cognate with English wold.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɔːɫ/, /jɔːɫd/

Adjective

yole

1. old

   Synonym: yola

   • 1867, 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 (in English), page 80:

     Yole Teoun.

     Old Town.

   • 1867, “SONGS, METRICAL PIECES, ETC. IN THE OLD ENGLISH SPEECH OF FORTH AND BARGY → THE BRIDE'S PORTION”, in 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 (in English), page 102:

     Dhree brailès o' beanès, an a keow at was yole,

     Three barrels of beans, and a cow that was old,

Derived terms

• Yole Teoun

References

• 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 80