vell

• IPA^(key): /vɛl/

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• Rhymes: -ɛl

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

vell (third-person singular simple present vells, present participle velling, simple past and past participle velled)

1. (UK, dialect) To cut the turf from, as for burning.
   • 1796, William Marshall, Rural Economy of the West of England:

     For velling, the share is made wide, with the angle or outer point of the wing or fin turned upward, to separate the turf entirely from the soil

Compare Latin vellus (“the skin of a sheep with the wool on it, a fleece, a hide or pelt”), or English fell (“a hide”).

vell (plural vells)

1. (UK, dialect) The salted stomach of a calf, used in making cheese; a rennet bag.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbeʎ]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈveʎ]
• Rhymes: -eʎ

Inherited from Old Catalan vell~veyl, from Vulgar Latin veclus, from Latin vetulus, diminutive of vetus. Compare Occitan vièlh, French vieux, Spanish viejo.

vell (feminine vella, masculine plural vells, feminine plural velles)

1. old

   Antonyms: jove, nou

• vellesa

Inherited from Latin vĕllus, or a variant of velló.

vell m (plural vells)

1. (agriculture) fleece

• velló

• “vell”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “vell”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “vell” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “vell” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

vell (strong)

1. inflection of vella:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

vell (weak)

1. second-person singular imperative of vella

vell n (definite singular vellet, indefinite plural vell, definite plural vella)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of vel

vell

1. present tense of velle
2. imperative of velle

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

vell n

1. (poetic) gold

• vellbroti (“gold-breaker; generous man”)
• Vellekla (“Lack of Gold (a Scaldic poem)”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vell

1. inflection of vella:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

vell

1. alternative form of vele
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 7, page 86:

     Th' heiftem o' pley vell all ing to lug;

     The weight of the play fell into the hollow;

   • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 5, page 96:

     Zoo wough aul vell a-danceen; earch bye gae a poage

     So we all fell a-dancing; each boy gave a kiss

• 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 75