different between veel vs reel

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

From Middle English reel, reele, from Old English r?ol, hr?ol, from Proto-Germanic *hrehulaz, from Proto-Indo-European *krek- (“to weave, beat”). Cognate with Icelandic ræl, hræl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?l/
• Homophone: real (some accents)
• Rhymes: -i?l

Noun

reel (plural reels)

1. A shaky or unsteady gait.
   • 2010, Andrew Koppelman, The Gay Rights Question in Contemporary American Law (page 92)

     Doubtless the present game of chess was developed through just such fiddling; perhaps someone once thought that the drunken reel of the knight was hostile to the essence of Chess.

2. A lively dance originating in Scotland; also, the music of this dance; often called a Scottish (or Scotch) reel.
3. A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound.

   a log reel, used by seamen

   an angler's reel

   a garden reel

   nudge the fruit machine reel

4. (textiles) A machine on which yarn is wound and measured into lays and hanks, —-- for cotton or linen it is fifty-four inches in circuit; for worsted, thirty inches.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of McElrath to this entry?)

5. (agriculture) A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives.
6. (film) A short compilation of sample film work used as a demonstrative resume in the entertainment industry.

   Synonym: showreel

Derived terms

• hose reel, hosereel
• newsreel

Translations

Verb

reel (third-person singular simple present reels, present participle reeling, simple past and past participle reeled)

1. To wind on a reel.
2. To spin or revolve repeatedly.
3. To unwind, to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else.

   He reeled off some tape from the roll and sealed the package.

4. To walk shakily or unsteadily; to stagger; move as if drunk or not in control of oneself.
   • 1770, Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village

     the wagons reeling under the yellow sheaves

   • 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, paperback edition, page 111

     Sarah reels a little, nevertheless, under the dog's boisterous greeting.

5. (with back) To back off or step away unsteadily and quickly.

   He reeled back from the punch.

6. To make or cause to reel.
7. To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.

   • In these lengthened vigils his brain often reeled.

   • 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xi:

     The high school had a send-off in my honour. It was an uncommon thing for a young man of Rajkot to go to England. I had written out a few words of thanks. But I could scarcely stammer them out. I remember how my head reeled and how my whole frame shook as I stood up to read them.

8. To be in shock.
   • 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[2]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):

     New Jersey was reeling on Wednesday from the impact of Hurricane Sandy, which has caused catastrophic flooding here in Hoboken and in other New York City suburbs, destroyed entire neighborhoods across the state and wiped out iconic boardwalks in shore towns that had enchanted generations of vacationgoers.

9. To produce a mechanical insect-like song, as in grass warblers.
10. (obsolete) To roll.

Derived terms

• reel in
• reel off

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Erle, LREE, leer

Atong (India)

Etymology

Borrowed from English rail, from Middle English rail, rayl, partly from Old English regol (“a ruler, straight bar”) and partly from Old French reille; both from Latin regula (“rule, bar”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?l/

Noun

reel (Bengali script ????)

1. rains
2. train
3. stud (of a fence)

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

Danish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French réel (“real”), from Medieval Latin re?lis (“actual”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??l/, [????l?], [?e??l?]

Adjective

reel

1. real, proper
2. reliable, trustworthy, honest (about a person)

Inflection

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English reel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ri?l/, [?i??l], [?i?l], [?i?l]

Noun

reel c (singular definite reelen, plural indefinite reeler)

1. (dance) reel

Inflection