vella

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbe.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈve.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈve.ʎa]

vella

1. feminine singular of vell

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛɟa/ [ˈbɛ.ɟɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɛɟa
• Hyphenation: ve‧lla

vella f sg

1. feminine singular of vello

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛtla/

  Rhymes: -ɛtla

From Old Norse vella, from Proto-Germanic *wallijǭ, perhaps also partly from a *wellǭ.

vella f (genitive singular vellu, nominative plural vellur)

1. boil, boiling, bubbling
2. milk that has been boiled until it curdles and forms a reddish thick substance similar to whey cheese
3. a stifling heat
4. the sound made by a whimbrel
5. chatter
6. flattery
7. weakling
8. a small portion (e.g. of coffee)
9. a minor sickness
10. (regional) slob

From Old Norse vella, from Proto-Germanic *wellaną, *wallaną.

vella (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative vall, third-person plural past indicative ullu, supine ollið)

1. to bubble, to boil, to simmer
2. to flow, to well up, to stream
3. to be crawling [with í ‘with’]
4. to chatter
5. to make the sound characteristic of the whimbrel

From Old Norse vella, from Proto-Germanic *wallijaną.

vella (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative velldi, supine vellt)

1. to boil, cause to simmer [with accusative]
2. to make the sound characteristic of the whimbrel (also figuratively in vella graut, literally “boil porridge”)

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)

vella

1. inflection of vellere:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• valle

• velle

From Old Norse vella. Akin to English well.

• IPA^(key): /²ʋɛlːɑ/

vella (present tense vell, past tense vall, supine volle, past participle vollen, present participle vellande, imperative vell)

1. to well, gush, flow (issue forth, as water from the earth)

• “vella” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *wallijǭ.

vella f

1. boiling heat, ebullition

• Icelandic: vella

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “vella”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

From Proto-Germanic *wellaną, *wallaną (“to well up”).

vella (singular past indicative vall, plural past indicative ullu, past participle ollinn)

1. (intransitive) to be in a state of ebullition, boil
2. to well up, swarm

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “vella”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vella

1. genitive plural of vell

-vélla

1. to go and check something, to take a look at, to keep an eyeon someone/something

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vella f (plural vellas)

1. obsolete spelling of vela

The unetymological <-a> /-ә/ was inserted to separate consonants.

vella

1. alternative form of waal (“well”)
   • 1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 129, line 9:

     Zien, "a blaak vall, a blaak vall, Ich meigh vella knew,

     Saying "a black fall, a black fall——I might well have known,

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927) “THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD.”, in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of lreland (Sixth Series)‎^[1], volume 17, number 2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 129