soal
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English sol, sule, from Old English sol (“mud, wet sand, wallowing-place, slough, a mire or miry place”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *sulą (“mire, mud”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *sūl- (“thick liquid, muck”). Compare sully. More at soil.
Alternative forms
Noun
soal (plural soals)
- (UK, dialect) A dirty pond.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Etymology 2
Noun
soal (plural soals)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “soal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Malay
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic سُؤَال (suʔāl).
Verb
menyoal
- to ask, to question, to interrogate
- Polis sedang menyoal suspek tentang rompakan itu.
- The police are interrogating the suspect about the robbery.
- Polis sedang menyoal suspek tentang rompakan itu.
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- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English lemmas
- English nouns
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- British English
- English dialectal terms
- Requests for quotations/Halliwell
- English obsolete forms
- Malay terms derived from Arabic
- Malay lemmas
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