houle

French

Etymology

From Old Norse hol (“cave, hole”), from the same Proto-Indo-European root as English hole.

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ul/

Noun

houle f (plural houles)

1. swell (of water)

Further reading

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

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Verb

houle

1. to hold

References

• J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)