vell

See also: vel'l' and vell-

English

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ɛl

Etymology 1

Verb

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

  1. (Britain, dialectal) To cut the turf from, as for burning.
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Etymology 2

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

Noun

vell (plural vells)

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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for vell in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Catalan

Pronunciation
  • (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈveʎ/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /ˈbeʎ/
  • Rhymes: -eʎ

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan vielh or its variants (compare Occitan vièlh), from Vulgar Latin veclus (compare French vieux, Spanish viejo), from Latin vetulus, diminutive of vetus.

Adjective

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

  1. old

Etymology 2

From Latin vĕllus, or a variant of velló.

Noun

vell m (plural vells)

  1. (agriculture) fleece

Icelandic

Verb

vell (strong)

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

Verb

vell (weak)

  1. second-person singular imperative of vella

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

vell

  1. present tense of vella
  2. imperative of vella

Old Norse

Etymology 1

Noun

vell n

  1. (poetic) gold
Declension
  Declension of vell (strong a-stem)
neuter singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative vell vellit vell vellin
accusative vell vellit vell vellin
dative velli vellinu vellum vellunum
genitive vells vellsins vella vellanna

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

vell

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