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Jamaican Creole
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]uol
- old
- 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Luuk 5:39:
- An nobadi, afta dem jringk uol wain, no waahn nyuu wain, kaaz dem se, 'Di uol wan beta.'
- And nobody after drinking old wine wants new wine, for they say, 'the old tastes good.'
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]uol (plural uol dem, quantified uol)
- hole
- 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Luuk 9:58:
- Jiizas se tu im se, "Faks av uol an di bod dem av nes, […] "
- Jesus said unto him, "the fox has its hole, and the birds have their nests, […]
Etymology 3
[edit]Adjective
[edit]uol
- whole, all
- 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, 1 Korintiyan 16:24:
- Mi lov di uol a unu, an siek-a Jiizas Krais di uol a wi a wan.
- I love all of you, and because of Jesus Christ all of us are one.
Etymology 4
[edit]Verb
[edit]uol
- to hold
- 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, 2 Tesiluoniyan 2:7:
- […] Bot sumadi a uol it bak. An di wan we a uol it bak a-go gwaan uol it til im get muuv outa di wie.
- […] however he who now restrains it will continue to do so until he is out of the way.
- (literally, “ […] But someone is holding it back. And the one holding it back goes on to hold it until he gets moved out of the way.”)
Further reading
[edit]- uol at majstro.com