yawl

See also: y'awl

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /jɔːl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /jɔl/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /jɑl/
• Rhymes: -ɔːl
• Homophone: y'all

Etymology 1

Apparently from Low German and Middle Low German jolle, or Dutch jol, possibly ultimately from a Proto-Germanic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewlos (“tube”), see also Lithuanian aulas, Norwegian aul, Hittite [script needed] (auli-, “tube-shaped organ in the neck”), Albanian hollë, Latin alvus.

Noun

A Bermuda-rigged yawl

yawl (plural yawls)

1. A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.
2. A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen stepped abaft the rudder post.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 193:

     The “Nellie,” a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

Descendants

• → Portuguese: aiola, aiole, iole

Translations

sailing vessel

• Bulgarian: шлю́пка (bg) f (šljúpka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 划子 (zh) (huázi), 舢板 (zh) (shānbǎn)

• Czech: jola f
• Finnish: jooli (fi)
• French: yole (fr) m
• Georgian: კარჭაპი (ḳarč̣aṗi), ორჩხომელი (ka) (orčxomeli)
• German: Jolle (de) f, Beiboot (de) n
• Hebrew: יָאוּל m (ya'úl)
• Irish: geolta m
• Italian: iolla f
• Japanese: ヨール (yōru)
• Macedonian: јо́ла f (jóla), едри́лица f (edrílica)
• Manx: yawl m
• Plautdietsch: Boot (nds) n
• Polish: jol (pl) m
• Portuguese: iole (pt) f
• Romanian: iolă (ro) f
• Russian: ял (ru) m (jal), йол (ru) m (jol), шлю́пка (ru) f (šljúpka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шојка f, шљупка f

  Latin: šojka (sh) f, šljupka (sh) f

• Spanish: yola (es) f

Etymology 2

Imitative.

Verb

yawl (third-person singular simple present yawls, present participle yawling, simple past and past participle yawled)

1. To cry out; to howl.
   • 1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:

     Something scraped slightly against the outer wall. But the night was full of wilder sounds, and in the house the furniture and the boards creaked and sprung between the yawling of the wind among the chimneys, the rattle of the thunder and the pelting of the rain.

Anagrams

• waly, wyla

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jol/

• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Noun

yawl m (plural yawls)

1. yawl (type of boat)

Further reading

• “yawl”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Manx

Etymology

Borrowed from English yawl.

Noun

yawl m (genitive singular yawl, plural yawlyn)

1. yawl