vell
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb edit
vell (third-person singular simple present vells, present participle velling, simple past and past participle velled)
- (UK, 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 edit
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 edit
vell (plural vells)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vell”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Catalan edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old Catalan vell~veyl, from Vulgar Latin veclus, from Latin vetulus, diminutive of vetus. Compare Occitan vièlh, French vieux, Spanish viejo.
Adjective edit
vell (feminine vella, masculine plural vells, feminine plural velles)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from Latin vĕllus, or a variant of velló.
Noun edit
vell m (plural vells)
Related terms edit
References edit
- “vell” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “vell”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “vell” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “vell” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Icelandic edit
Verb edit
vell (strong)
- inflection of vella:
Verb edit
vell (weak)
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Noun edit
vell n (definite singular vellet, indefinite plural vell, definite plural vella)
Verb edit
vell
- present tense of velle
- imperative of velle
Old Norse edit
Etymology 1 edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun edit
vell n
Declension edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
vell
- inflection of vella:
Yola edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
vell
- simple past of vall
- 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 edit
- 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