different between moel vs noel

English

Etymology

From Welsh moel (“bare hill”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /m??l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Noun

moel (plural moels)

1. A hill having a rounded outline in its upper portion because the summit is protected from rapid denudation by a layer of soil and a growth of forest trees or grass, or by marshes of peat.

References

• Moel in the 1905 edition of the New International Encyclopedia.

Anagrams

• Elmo, Lomé, Melo, Mole, melo-, mole, molé

Estonian

Noun

moel

1. adessive singular of mood

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh moel, from Old Welsh mail, from Proto-Brythonic *mo?l, from Proto-Celtic *mailos; cognate with Old Irish máel.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /mo???l/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /m?i?l/

Adjective

moel (feminine singular moel, plural moelion, equative moeled, comparative moelach, superlative moelaf)

1. bald
2. plain
3. bare

Derived terms

• moeli (“to go bald”)
• moelni (“baldness”)
• moelyn (“baldy”)

Noun

moel f (plural moelydd)

1. a bare, treeless mountain or hill

Mutation

English

Alternative forms

• noël
• nowell
• nowel

Etymology

From Middle English nowel, from Anglo-Norman noel, Middle French noel, a variant of nael, from Latin adjective n?t?lis (“natal, having to do with birth”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /n????l/

Noun

noel (plural noels)

1. Christmas
2. A kind of hymn, or canticle, of mediaeval origin, sung in honor of the birth of Christ; a Christmas carol.

Anagrams

• Elon, Leno, Leon, León, Nole, elon, enol, leno, lone, neol., nole, one L

Old French

Etymology

A variant of nael, from the Latin adjective n?t?lis (“natal, having to do with birth”).

Noun

noel m (oblique plural noeaus or noeax or noiaus or noiax or noels, nominative singular noeaus or noeax or noiaus or noiax or noels, nominative plural noel)

1. Christmas (Christmas Day)