wol

Clipping of English or Wolof Wolof.

wol

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Wolof.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Wolof terms

wol

1. soft mutation of gol

From Middle Dutch wolle, from Old Dutch *wulla, from Proto-West Germanic *wullu, from Proto-Germanic *wullō.

• IPA^(key): /ʋɔl/

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• Hyphenation: wol
• Rhymes: -ɔl

wol f (uncountable)

1. wool

• Afrikaans: wol
• Negerhollands: wol
• → Lokono: wolu
• → Indonesian: wol

wol

1. obsolete spelling of wohl

• wull, wu'll'

From English world.

• IPA^(key): /wʌl/

wol

1. world

• De Nyew Testament‎^[1], Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc., 2025

• Virginia Mixson Geraty, Gulluh fuh oonuh: Gullah for You (1997)

Borrowed from Dutch wol, from Middle Dutch wolle, from Old Dutch *wulla, from Proto-West Germanic *wullu, from Proto-Germanic *wullō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈwol/ [ˈwɔl]

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• Rhymes: -ol
• Syllabification: wol

wol (plural wol-wol)

1. wool (hair of sheep, etc.)

   Alternative form: wul (Malay)

   Synonym: (uncommon) suf

• “wol” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Old English willan.

wol

1. will

• English: won't

From Old English wull.

wol

1. alternative form of wolle

From Old English wel.

wol

1. (rare) alternative form of wel

Inherited from Old High German wola, from Proto-Germanic *wela, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-.

wol (comparative baȥ, superlative {{{2}}})

1. well

• Cimbrian: bóol, boll
• German: wohl
• Luxembourgish: wuel
• Yiddish: ווויל (voyl)

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “wol”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel

From Proto-West Germanic *wōl. Cognate with Old Saxon wōl, Old High German wuol, Old Norse ól (“troll-woman”).

• IPA^(key): /woːl/

wōl m

1. plague, pestilence

Strong a-stem:

• cwild
• mancwealm

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “WŌL”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

From English world.

wol

1. world

From English wall.

wol

1. wall