wull

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English

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Verb

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wull

  1. Pronunciation spelling of will.

Middle English

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Noun

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wull

  1. Alternative form of wolle

Old English

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *wullu, from Proto-Germanic *wullō, from *wulnā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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wull f

  1. wool
    Sċēap man hielt for heora wulle and flǣsċe.
    Sheep are kept for their wool and meat.
    • c. 996, Ælfric, Lives of Saints
      Swīðe sweartes līchaman hēo wæs for þǣre sunnan hǣte, and þā loccas hire hēafdes wǣron swā hwīte swā wull.
      Her skin was tanned very dark [lit. "she was of a very black body"] from the sun's heat, and the locks of her hair were as white as wool.

Declension

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Descendants

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Yola

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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wull

  1. Alternative form of woul (will)
    • 1867, OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR:
      'Chull, for Ich wull.
      I will.

Etymology 2

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Adverb

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wull

  1. Alternative form of waal (well)
    • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 106:
      A skudhelès, lhaung roosta, wull glaude leth aam what.
      The knives, that were long rusty, well-pleased let them whet.

References

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  • 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 16 & 79