different between veel vs jeel

English

Etymology 1

Noun

veel (uncountable)

1. Obsolete spelling of veal

Etymology 2

Verb

veel (third-person singular simple present veels, present participle veeling, simple past and past participle veeled)

1. (nonstandard, Britain) feel
   • 1869, James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire

     To Veel. v. To feel.

     Veel’d. part. Felt.

Etymology 3

Noun

veel (plural veels)

1. (nonstandard, Britain) field

Quotations

• 1850, James Orchard Halliwell, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century

  But why do they let ’un stray out of the veels?

• 1869, James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire

  Veel. s. A field; a corn land unenclosed.

Derived terms

• veelvare

Anagrams

• EVEL, elev., elve, vele

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

• feul (obsolete)
• veul (archaic)

Etymology

From Dutch veel, from Middle Dutch vele, from Old Dutch filo, from Proto-Germanic *felu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??l/

Pronoun

veel

1. (chiefly with negatives or when modified by adverbs) much, a lot

Synonyms

• baie (more common synonym with a mostly complementary distribution)

Determiner

veel

1. (chiefly with negatives or when modified by adverbs) much, many

Synonyms

• baie (more common synonym with a mostly complementary distribution)

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ve?l/
• Hyphenation: veel
• Rhymes: -e?l

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch vele, from Old Dutch filo, from Proto-Germanic *felu.

Determiner

veel (comparative meer, superlative meest)

1. many, much, a lot of

Usage notes

As a determiner veel typically isn't inflected in informal Dutch. In formal style the inflected form vele may be used, but only for plurals or before (usually uncountable) singular nouns with a definite article:

Inflection

Antonyms

• weinig

Derived terms

Pronoun

veel (comparative meer, superlative het meest or het meeste)

1. much, a lot

Antonyms

• weinig

Derived terms

• veelverdiener
• veelvraat

Descendants

• Afrikaans: veel

Adverb

veel (comparative meer, superlative meest)

1. much
2. often, frequently

Synonyms

• (frequently): vaak

Antonyms

• weinig
• (frequency): zelden

Derived terms

• veelgebruikt

Etymology 2

Verb

veel

1. first-person singular present indicative of velen
2. imperative of velen

Anagrams

• leve, vele

Dutch Low Saxon

Alternative forms

• völle

Etymology

Cognate to German viel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?l/

Adverb

veel

1. much

Adjective

veel

1. much, many

Estonian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *veelä, from a Baltic language. Cognate to Lithuanian v?l, Latvian v?l and Finnish vielä.

Adverb

veel

1. yet, still

Anagrams

• elev

Etymology 2

Noun

veel

1. adessive singular of vesi

German Low German

Alternative forms

• v?l
• v?l
• (Mecklenburgisch, Western Pomeranian) v?l, vääl, väl, vel
• (Eastern Westphalian) viel, vill

Etymology

Cognate to German viel.

Adverb

veel

1. (in many dialects, including Low Prussian) much

Adjective

veel

1. (in many dialects, including Low Prussian) much (a lot of) (when used in the singular)

2. (in many dialects, including Low Prussian) many (when used in the plural)

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *veelä, borrowed from a Baltic language. Cognates include Finnish vielä and Estonian veel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ve?l/

Adverb

veel

1. yet

References

• Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)?^[1]

Middle English

Alternative forms

• veele, vele, veale

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman veel, from Latin vitellus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??l/, /v?l/

Noun

veel (plural veles)

1. veal (the meat of a calf)
2. A calf (young cow)

Descendants

• English: veal
• Scots: veal, veall, vale

References

• “v?l(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-5.

Old French

Alternative forms

• vedel

Etymology

Inherited from Latin vitellus.

Noun

veel m (oblique plural veeaus or veeax or veiaus or veiax or veels, nominative singular veeaus or veeax or veiaus or veiax or veels, nominative plural veel)

1. calf (young cow or bull)

Descendants

• ? English: veal
• French: veau

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (veel, supplement)
• veel on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

English

Etymology 1

Noun

jeel (plural jeels)

1. Alternative form of jheel
   • 1820, Walter Hamilton, A Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Description of Hindostan and the Adjacent Countries, Volume 1, page 246,

     The pieces of stagnant water may be divided into jeels which contain water throughout the year, and chaongre which dry up in the cold season.

   • 1827, East India Company, Journey across the Arracan Mountains, The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, Volume 23, page 16,

     On the banks of this jeel the party encamped, about two miles from the village.

   • 1827, The Burmese War: Operations on the Sihet Frontier, 1824, The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies, Volume 24, page 551,

     The reports of some hircarrahs having induced a belief that a short passage might be discovered across the jeels from the Gogra towards Tilyn, Lieut. Fisher, of the Quarter-Master General's department, was despatched to reconnoitre the outlets from that river, accompanied by Lieut. Craigie and five sipahees, in two dingees.

Etymology 2

Manx jeeyl, jeeill ("damage"), cognate to Irish díobháil.

Noun

jeel

1. (Isle of Man) Damage; harm.
   • 1889, Thomas Edward Brown, The Manx Witch: And Other Poems, page 79:

     And the gel, you know, as freckened as freckened,

     Because of coorse she navar reckoned

     But Misthriss Banks could do the jeel ¹

     She was braggin she could, and she'd take and kneel

     On her bended knees, and she'd cuss — the baste !

     […]

     ¹ Damage.

   • 1908, Cushag (Josephine Kermode), Eunys, Or the Dalby Maid, page 16:

     An' first an' last upon the flure, an' spinnin' at the wheel,

     But that strange silence on her still of what had done the jeel.

   • 1924, Sophia Morrison, Edmund Goodwin, A vocabulary of the Anglo-Manx dialect,

     page 73, entry "Govvag":

     The jeel (damage) the govags is doin to the nets is urrov all marcy.

     page 188, entry "Traa-dy-liooar":

     An' the wan (one) that's doin all the jeel (damage) is wickad Traa-dy-liooar (Time-enough). (Cushag.)

Further reading

• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914) , “jeel”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume III (Hoop–O), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 1078064371.