different between noel vs noll

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)

English

Etymology

From Old English hnol. Cognate with Dutch nol (“top of a sand-dune”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?l/
• Rhymes: -?l
• Homophone: gnoll (one pronunciation)

Noun

noll (plural nolls)

1. (now Britain regional) The head, especially the top of the head. [from 8th c.]
   • 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:

     Wolde to God it wolde please you some daye / A balade boke before me for to laye, / And lerne me to synge Re my fa sol! / And whan I fayle bobbe me on the noll.

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?l/

Numeral

noll

1. zero

Coordinate terms

See also

• nolla
• nollte
• noll, ett, två, tre, fyra, fem, sex, sju, åtta, nio, tio, elva, tolv

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English nol, from Old English hnoll.

Noun

noll (plural nollès)

1. awl

References

• J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)