vell

See also: velʹlʹ and vell-

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛl

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

vell (third-person singular simple present vells, present participle velling, simple past and past participle velled)

1. (UK, obsolete, agriculture, dialect) To cut the turf from, as for burning.
   • 1796, William Marshall, Rural Economy of the West of England:

     For velling, the share is made wide, with the angle or outer point of the wing or fin turned upward, to separate the turf entirely from the soil

Etymology 2

Compare Latin vellus (“the skin of a sheep with the wool on it, a fleece, a hide or pelt”), or English fell (“a hide”).

Noun

vell (plural vells)

1. (UK, archaic) The salted stomach of a calf, used in making rennet

References

• “vell”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈbe̞ʎ]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈveʎ]
• IPA^(key): (Central, Northwestern) [ˈbeʎ]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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• Rhymes: -eʎ

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan vell~veyl, from Vulgar Latin veclus, from Latin vetulus, diminutive of vetus. Compare Occitan vièlh, French vieux, Spanish viejo.

Adjective

vell (feminine vella, masculine plural vells, feminine plural velles)

1. old

   Antonyms: jove, nou

Derived terms

• vellesa

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin vĕllus, or a variant of velló.

Noun

vell m (plural vells)

1. (agriculture) fleece

Related terms

• velló

References

• “vell”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “vell”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “vell” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “vell”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɛtl̥]
• Rhymes: -ɛtl̥

Verb

vell (strong)

1. inflection of vella:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Verb

vell (weak)

1. second-person singular imperative of vella

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

vell n (definite singular vellet, indefinite plural vell, definite plural vella)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of vel

Verb

vell

1. present tense of velle
2. imperative of velle

Old Norse

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

vell n

1. (poetic) gold

Declension

Declension of vell (strong a-stem)

neuter	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	vell	vellit	vell	vellin
accusative	vell	vellit	vell	vellin
dative	velli	vellinu	vellum	vellunum
genitive	vells	vellsins	vella	vellanna

Derived terms

• vellbroti (“gold-breaker; generous man”)
• Vellekla (“Lack of Gold (a Scaldic poem)”)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

vell

1. inflection of vella:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Yola

Verb

vell

1. alternative form of vele
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 7, page 86:

     Th' heiftem o' pley vell all ing to lug;

     The weight of the play fell into the hollow;

   • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 5, page 96:

     Zoo wough aul vell a-danceen; earch bye gae a poage

     So we all fell a-dancing; each boy gave a kiss

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 75