houle
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French houle (“swell”), probably from an Old Northern French *houle (“cavity, hole”, attested in modern dialects), itself from Old Norse hol (“cave, hole”), from Proto-Germanic *hulą, whence also English hole. The sense would derive from the bulges and hollows of the waves.
Pronunciation edit
- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /ul/
Audio (CAN) (file)
Noun edit
houle f (plural houles)
- swell (of water)
Further reading edit
- “houle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Yola edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English holden, from Old English healdan, from Proto-West Germanic *haldan.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /hɔːɫ/
- Homophones: hol, hole
Verb edit
houle (past participle ee-halt)
- to hold
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 47