different between vell vs veel

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

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Verb

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

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

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ve?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?be?/
• Rhymes: -e?

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

   Antonyms: jove, nou

Derived terms

• vellesa

Etymology 2

From Latin v?llus, or a variant of velló.

Noun

vell m (plural vells)

1. (agriculture) fleece

Related terms

• velló

Further reading

• “vell” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “vell” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “vell” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “vell” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Icelandic

Verb

vell (strong)

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

Verb

vell (weak)

1. second-person singular imperative of vella

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

vell n (definite singular vellet, indefinite plural vell, definite plural vella)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by vel

Verb

vell

1. present tense of velle
2. imperative of velle

Old Norse

Etymology 1

Noun

vell n

1. (poetic) gold

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

vell

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

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