sawl

Old English

Noun

sāwl f

1. alternative form of sāwol

Tashelhit

Etymology

Morphologically from s- (“causative marker”) + awal (“speech”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sawl/

Verb

sawl (intensive aorist sawal, verbal noun awal, Tifinagh spelling ⵙⴰⵡⵍ, Arabic spelling ساول)

1. to speak, to talk

   ايس ا ساوالن تاعرابت نغد تاشلحيت

   is a sawaln taɛrabt nġd tašlḥiyt.

   do they speak Arabic or Tashelhit.

Related terms

• amawal (“dictionary”)
• awal (“speech”)
• msiwil (“to talk to one another”)

References

• Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 3 m—š (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/3) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1935b

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sau̯l/

Pronoun

sawl

1. (interrogative) how many?

Usage notes

• Sawl means "how many" and is followed by the singular form of a countable noun.

Sawl cath? ― How many cats?

Sawl coffi? ― How many coffees?

• Faint, on the other hand, corresponds to both English "how many", followed by o and the plural form of a countable noun, and to "how much", followed o and an uncountable noun.

Faint o gathod? ― How many cats?

Faint o goffi? ― How much coffee?

Determiner

sawl

1. several

Usage notes

• Once again, sawl is followed by the singular form of a countable noun.

Mae gen i sawl cath. ― I have several cats.

Derived terms

• sawl gwaith