wol

See also: Wol, WOL, woł, wól, wół, wōl, wɔl, and wɔ́l

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English and Wolof Wolof.

Symbol

wol

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Wolof.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Wolof terms

Cornish

Noun

wol

1. soft mutation of gol

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch wolle, from Old Dutch *wulla, from Proto-West Germanic *wullu, from Proto-Germanic *wullō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋɔl/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: wol
• Rhymes: -ɔl

Noun

wol f (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. wool

Derived terms

• door de wol geverfd
• geitenwol
• glaswol
• onder de wol
• schapenwol
• woladventief
• wolharig
• wollegras
• wollen
• wollig
• wolschaap

Descendants

• Afrikaans: wol
• Negerhollands: wol
• → Lokono: wolu
• → Indonesian: wol

German

Adverb

wol

1. obsolete spelling of wohl

Gullah

Alternative forms

• wull, wu'll'

Etymology

From English world.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wʌl/

Noun

wol

1. world

References

• De Nyew Testament‎^[1], Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc., 2025
• Virginia Mixson Geraty, Gulluh fuh oonuh: Gullah for You (1997)

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch wol, from Middle Dutch wolle, from Old Dutch *wulla, from Proto-West Germanic *wullu, from Proto-Germanic *wullō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈwol/ [ˈwɔl]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ol
• Syllabification: wol

Noun

wol (plural wol-wol)

1. wool (hair of sheep, etc.)

   Alternative form: wul (Malay)

   Synonym: (uncommon) suf

Derived terms

• mengewol

Further reading

• “wol”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English willan.

Verb

wol

1. will

Descendants

• English: won't

Etymology 2

From Old English wull.

Noun

wol

1. alternative form of wolle

Etymology 3

From Old English wel.

Adverb

wol

1. (rare) alternative form of wel

Middle High German

Etymology

Inherited from Old High German wola, from Proto-Germanic *wela, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-.

Adverb

wol (comparative baȥ, superlative {{{2}}})

1. well

Descendants

• Cimbrian: bóol, boll
• German: wohl
• Luxembourgish: wuel
• Yiddish: ווויל (voyl)

References

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich; Müller, Wilhelm; Zarncke, Friedrich (1863), “wol”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *wōl. Cognate with Old Saxon wōl, Old High German wuol, Old Norse ól (“troll-woman”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /woːl/
• Rhymes: -oːl

Noun

wōl m

1. plague, pestilence

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	wōl	wōlas
accusative	wōl	wōlas
genitive	wōles	wōla
dative	wōle	wōlum

Synonyms

• cwild
• mancwealm

References

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “WŌL”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Tok Pisin

Etymology 1

From English world.

Noun

wol

1. world

Etymology 2

From English wall.

Noun

wol

1. wall