yodel

English

WOTD – 9 April 2009

Etymology

Etymology tree

German jodelnbor.

English yodel

Borrowed from German jodeln.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈjəʊ.dəl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈjoʊ.dəl/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -əʊdəl

Verb

yodel (third-person singular simple present yodels, present participle (US) yodeling or (UK) yodelling, simple past and past participle (US) yodeled or (UK) yodelled)

1. (transitive and intransitive) To sing (a song) in such a way that the voice fluctuates rapidly between the normal chest voice and falsetto.

Derived terms

• Tarzan yodel
• yodeler
• yodel in the canyon
• yodeller
• yodel up the valley

Translations

to sing in such a way that the voice fluctuates rapidly between the normal chest voice and falsetto

• Catalan: cantar iòdel
• Czech: jódlovat (cs)
• Danish: jodle
• Dutch: jodelen (nl)
• Esperanto: jodli
• Estonian: joodeldama
• Finnish: jodlata (fi)
• French: iodler (fr), yodler (fr), jodler (fr)
• German: jodeln (de)

  Alemannic German: joole

• Greek: λαρυγγίζω (el) (laryngízo)
• Hungarian: jódlizik (hu)
• Icelandic: jóðla
• Ido: yodlar (io)
• Irish: geoidligh
• Italian: cantare lo jodel
• Japanese: ヨーデルする (yōderu suru)
• Norwegian: jodle (no)
• Polish: jodłować (pl)
• Portuguese: cantar à tirolesa
• Russian: йодли́ровать (ru) (jodlírovatʹ)
• Spanish: cantar como los tiroleses
• Swedish: joddla (sv)

Noun

yodel (plural yodels)

1. An act of yodelling.
2. A song incorporating yodelling.

Translations

song

• Arabic: يودلية
• Bulgarian: йодел m (jodel), айларипи n (ajlaripi)
• Catalan: iòdel m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 約德爾 / 约德尔 (zh) (yuēdé'ěr), 約德爾唱法 / 约德尔唱法 (yuēdé'ěr chàngfǎ)

• Czech: jódlovačka f, jódlování n
• Danish: jodling c
• Esperanto: jodlado
• Estonian: joodeldamine, joodeldus
• Finnish: jodlaus (fi)
• French: yodel (fr) m, jodel (fr) m, iodel m
• German: Jodler (de) m, Jodeln n
• Greek: λαρυγγισμός (el) m (laryngismós)
• Hungarian: jódli (hu)
• Irish: geoidil f
• Italian: jodel (it) m, canto tirolese m
• Japanese: ヨーデル (yōderu)
• Korean: 요들 (yodeul)
• Latvian: jodelēt
• Lithuanian: jodliavimas
• Norwegian: jodling
• Polish: jodłowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: tirolesa (pt) f, canto tirolês m, iodelei m, tirolês (pt) m
• Russian: йодль (ru) m (jodlʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: jodlanje n
• Spanish: canción al estilo tirolés f, canto a la tirolesa m
• Swedish: joddling (sv) c, joddel (sv) n
• Vietnamese: hát yodel

See also

• yodelayheehoo

Anagrams

• Doyel, Doyle, odyle, yodle