yole
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
yole (plural yoles)
- (nautical) A Scottish rowing boat that could also use a sail
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French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Dutch jol or Danish jolle.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
yole f (plural yoles)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “yole”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English edit
Proper noun edit
yole
- Alternative form of yol
Yola edit
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Etymology edit
From Middle English yolde, yolle, from Old English eald, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós, a suffixed form of *h₂el- (“grow, nourish”). Cognate with English wold.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
yole
- old
- Synonym: yola
- 1867, 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 (in English), page 80:
- Yole Teoun.
- Old Town.
- 1867, “SONGS, METRICAL PIECES, ETC. IN THE OLD ENGLISH SPEECH OF FORTH AND BARGY → THE BRIDE'S PORTION”, in 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 (in English), page 102:
- Dhree brailès o' beanès, an a keow at was yole,
- Three barrels of beans, and a cow that was old,
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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 80