wolle

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔlə/

• Audio:

  (file)

wolle

1. first/third-person singular subjunctive I of wollen
2. second-person singular imperative of wollen

Inherited from Central Franconian welle, from Middle High German wellen, from Old High German wellen, a merger of Proto-West Germanic *willjan (“to want”) and Proto-West Germanic *walljan (“to choose, select”). Doublet of weele.^[1]

Cognate with German wollen and Luxembourgish wëllen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvolə/
• Rhymes: -olə
• Hyphenation: wol‧le

wolle

1. (transitive, with accusative) to want; to desire

   Ich will es aach net meh wieder dun.

   I don't want to do it again.

   Ich wolld die Affe sihn.

   I wanted to see the monkeys.

2. (auxiliary) to want

• wol, woll, woolle, woul, woule, wull, wulle

Inherited from Old English wull, from Proto-West Germanic *wullu, from Proto-Germanic *wullō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂. The final vowel is generalised from the Old English oblique cases.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwul(ə)/

wolle (plural wolles)

1. wool (coat of sheep), especially when used to make fabric
   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎^[1], published c. 1410, Apocalips 1:14, page 117v; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     ⁊ þe heed of him ⁊ his heeris weren whiyt as whiyt wolle .· ⁊ as ſnow / ⁊ þe iȝen of him as flawme of fier .·

     And his head and his hairs were white, like white wool or snow, and his eyes were like fire's flame.

2. Shorn wool, especially stockpiled in bulk.
3. Woollen garments or clothing; woolwear.
4. Sheepskin; the skin of sheep.
5. (rare) Other woolen goods; woollens.
6. (rare) Other fibres (substituting wool)
7. (rare) The flesh or innards of fruit.

• wolled
• wollemongere
• wollen
• wolward

• English: wool
• Scots: woll, wol, wow, wo, oull, owll, owl, oo
• Yola: wul

• “wǒl, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 3 August 2018.

Compare German wollen, Dutch willen, English will.

wolle

1. to want to do something
2. to intend to
3. to want

• Used as a modal verb.

From Old Frisian willa, from Proto-West Germanic *willjan. Cognates include West Frisian wolle and German wollen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔlə/
• Hyphenation: wol‧le
• Rhymes: -ɔlə

wolle

1. (transitive) to want

• Marron C. Fort (2015) “wolle”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

From Old Frisian willa, from Proto-West Germanic *willjan, from Proto-Germanic *wiljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvolə/

wolle

1. to want
2. to want to, to be willing to (as used with infinitive object)

• “wolle (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011