different between voile vs vogle

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French voile (“veil”). Doublet of veil and velum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??l/

Noun

voile (countable and uncountable, plural voiles)

1. A light, translucent cotton fabric used for making curtains and dresses.
   • 1920, United States Tariff Commission, William Alexander Graham Clark, Henry Chalmers, Blanche C. Howlett, Cotton Yarn: Import and Export Trade in Relation to the Tariff, page 80,

     The domestic voile made from imported gray yarns and woven in the United States is the best combination to be had.

Descendants

• ? Irish: voil

Anagrams

• Olive, lovie, olive, viole

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vwal/

Etymology 1

From an Old French voil, veil, from Latin v?lum, from Proto-Indo-European.

Noun

voile m (plural voiles)

1. (countable) veil

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? English: voile
  • ? Irish: voil
• ? Italian: voile
• ? Romanian: voal
• ? Russian: ????? (vual?)

Etymology 2

From Old French voile, veile, veille, from Vulgar Latin *v?la, from the plural of Latin v?lum, from Proto-Indo-European.

Noun

voile f (plural voiles)

1. (countable) sail

   Hissons la grande voile, matelots !

   Raise the mainsail, seamen!

2. (uncountable, sports) sailing.

   La voile, il n'y a rien de mieux pour se détendre ! J'en ai fait tout le week-end.

   Sailing, there's nothing better for relaxing! I did it all weekend.

Derived terms

• faire de la voile
• hisser les voiles
• mettre les voiles
• planche à voile
• voile latine
• voiler
• voilier
• vol à voile

Anagrams

• olive, viole, violé

Further reading

• “voile” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French voile. Doublet of vela.

Noun

voile m (invariable)

1. voile

Anagrams

• Elvio, olive, ovile, viole

Old French

Alternative forms

• veile

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *v?la, from the plural of v?lum.

Alternative forms

• veile, veille

Noun

voile f (oblique plural voiles, nominative singular voile, nominative plural voiles)

1. sail (large piece of fabric attached to the mast of a watercraft)

Descendants

• French: voile
• Norman: vaile

English

Noun

vogle (plural vogles)

1. (mining, archaic, dialect) A vug.

Anagrams

• Vogel, glove, volge