Middle English edit

Noun edit

sovel

  1. Alternative form of sowel (food)

Romani edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Vedic Sanskrit स्वपति (svapati).[1][2][3]

Verb edit

sovel

  1. to sleep[2][3][4][5]

References edit

  1. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “svápati”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 804
  2. 2.0 2.1 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “sovél¹”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 263a
  3. 3.0 3.1 Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction[1], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 39
  4. ^ Marcel Courthiade (2009) “s/ovel, -utǎ[s]”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 330a
  5. ^ Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “sovel (sutǎs)”, in ニューエクスプレスプラス ロマ(ジプシー)語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 155a

Swedish edit

Etymology edit

From Old Swedish sofl, cognate to Old English sufel (> English sowl). Related to soppa (soup), supa (drink alcohol).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

sovel c

  1. food which is not bread or potatoes, e.g. meat, fish or sandwich toppings (pålägg)

Declension edit

Declension of sovel 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative sovel sovlet
Genitive sovels sovlets

Derived terms edit

References edit