jul

See also: Jul, JUL, júl, Jul., and júl.

Afrikaans

Determiner

jul

1. Alternative form of julle; your (plural)

See also

Afrikaans personal pronouns

		subjective	objective	possessive determiner	possessive pronoun
singular	1st	ek	my		myne
	2nd	jy	jou		joune
	2nd, formal	u			u s’n
	3rd, masc	hy	hom	sy	syne
	3rd, fem	sy	haar		hare
	3rd, neut	dit		sy	syne
plural	1st	ons			ons s’n
	2nd	julle / jul1			julle s’n
	3rd	hulle / hul1			hulle s’n
1. The forms jul and hul are unstressed variants. They are used mostly in possessive function, but also otherwise, chiefly when the pronoun is repeated within the same sentence.

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse jól, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *jehwlą, *jeulō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈjuˀl]
• Homophone: hjul

Noun

jul c (singular definite julen, plural indefinite jule)

1. (Christianity) Christmas (the time around 25 December)

Inflection

Declension of jul

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	jul	julen	jule	julene
genitive	juls	julens	jules	julenes

Derived terms

Terms derived from "jul"

• Juleøen
• jule (verb)
• juleaften c
• juleassistance c
• julebuk c
• juledag c
• juleevangelium n
• julefrokost c

• julegave c
• julekalender c
• juleleg c
• julemand c
• julemærke n
• julenisse c
• julepynt c
• juleri n

• julerose c
• julesalat c
• julestads c
• julestemning c
• juletræ n
• juletræsfod c

Descendants

• Norwegian Bokmål: jul
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: jul (partially from an earlier East Nordic borrowing)
• → German: Jul
  • → Dutch: joel
  • ⇒ German: Julfest
    • → Dutch: joelfeest
• → Greenlandic: juulli

Verb

jul

1. imperative of jule

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse jól

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• IPA^(key): /jʉːɽ/, /jʉːl/
• Homophone: hjul
• Rhymes: -ʉːɽ

Noun

jul f or m (definite singular jula or julen, indefinite plural juler, definite plural julene)

1. Christmas, also Yule

Derived terms

• god jul
• julaften
• juledag (første ..., andre ... etc.)
• julegave
• julehilsen
• julehymne
• julekort
• julelys
• julemat
• julemiddag
• julenisse
• julepresang
• julesang
• julestemning
• julestjerne
• julestrømpe
• juletid
• juletre
• juletrefot
• lillejulaften
• romjul

 

References

• “jul” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• jol

Etymology

From Old Norse jól. Akin to English Yule.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jʉːl/
• Homophone: hjul

Noun

jul f (definite singular jula, indefinite plural juler, definite plural julene)

1. Christmas, Christmastide
2. Yule (Germanic celebration of the winter solstice)

Derived terms

• god jul
• romjul

References

• “jul” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

jȗl m (Cyrillic spelling ју̑л)

1. Alternative spelling of jȗli, the month of July

Declension

Declension of jul

	singular	plural
nominative	jul	juli
genitive	jula	jula
dative	julu	julima
accusative	juli	jule
vocative	jul	juli
locative	julu	julima
instrumental	julom	julima

See also

• (month): Previous: jȗn. Next: avgust

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) m(j)eseci gregorijanskog kalendara; januar/siječanj, februar/veljača, mart/ožujak, april/travanj, maj/svibanj, jun/juni/lipanj, jul/juli/srpanj, avgust/august/kolovoz, septembar/rujan, oktobar/listopad, novembar/studeni, decembar/prosinac ^{(Category: sh:Gregorian calendar months)}

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Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish iūl, from Old Norse jól, from Proto-Germanic *jehwlą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jʉːl/

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• Homophone: hjul
• Rhymes: -ʉːl

Noun

jul c

1. Christmas

Declension

Declension of jul
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	jul	julen	jular	jularna
Genitive	juls	julens	julars	jularnas

Related terms

• julafton
• julotta
• julmust
• julstuga
• jultomte
• julöl

Etymology 2

Noun

jul ?

1. July; Abbreviation of juli.

See also

• jan - feb - mar - apr - maj - jun - jul - aug - sep - okt - nov - dec

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Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from German Schule.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃul/

Noun

jul (nominative plural juls)

1. school

Declension

declension of jul

	singular	plural
nominative	jul	juls
genitive	jula	julas
dative	jule	jules
accusative	juli	julis
vocative 1	o jul!	o juls!
predicative 2	julu	julus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Hyponyms

• pöpajul