wull

See also: Wull and wu'll

English

Verb

wull

1. Pronunciation spelling of will.

Middle English

Noun

wull

1. Alternative form of wolle

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *wullu, from Proto-Germanic *wullō, from *wulnā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wull/, [wuɫ]

Noun

wull f

1. wool

   Sċēap man hielt for heora wulle and flǣsċe.

   Sheep are kept for their wool and meat.

   • c. 996, Ælfric, Lives of Saints

     Swīðe sweartes līchaman hēo wæs for þǣre sunnan hǣte, and þā loccas hire hēafdes wǣron swā hwīte swā wull.

     Her skin was tanned very dark [lit. "she was of a very black body"] from the sun's heat, and the locks of her hair were as white as wool.

Declension

Strong ō-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	wull	—
accusative	wulle	—
genitive	wulle	—
dative	wulle	—

Descendants

• Middle English: wolle, wol, woll, woolle, woul, woule, wull, wulle
  • English: wool
  • Scots: woll, wol, wow, wo, oull, owll, owl, oo
  • Yola: wul

Yola

Etymology 1

Verb

wull

1. Alternative form of woul (“will”)
   • 1867, OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR:

     'Chull, for Ich wull.

     I will.

Etymology 2

Adverb

wull

1. Alternative form of waal (“well”)
   • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 106:

     A skudhelès, lhaung roosta, wull glaude leth aam what.

     The knives, that were long rusty, well-pleased let them whet.

References

• 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 16 & 79