moel

From Welsh moel (“bare hill”).

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /mɔɪl/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪl

moel (plural moels)

1. A hill having a rounded outline in its upper portion because the summit is protected from rapid denudation by a layer of soil and a growth of forest trees or grass, or by marshes of peat.

• Nant-y-moel

• Moel in the 1905 edition of the New International Encyclopedia.

• melo-, Melo, elmo, molé, Elmo, melo, mole, Mole, Lomé

moel

1. adessive singular of mood

From Middle Welsh moel, from Old Welsh mail, from Proto-Brythonic *moɨl, from Proto-Celtic *mailos; cognate with Old Irish máel, compare Cumbric *mêl.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /moːɨ̯l/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /mɔi̯l/

moel (feminine singular moel, plural moelion, equative moeled, comparative moelach, superlative moelaf)

1. bald
2. plain
3. bare
4. (of livestock) polled, hornless

• moeli (“to go bald”)
• moelni (“baldness”)
• moelyn (“baldy”)

moel f (plural moelydd)

1. a bare, treeless mountain or hill