different between weel vs jeel
weel
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /wil/, [wi?l]
- (US)
Etymology 1
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Noun
weel (plural weels)
- (obsolete) A whirlpool.
- A kind of trap for catching fish; a weely.
Etymology 2
Verb
weel
- Pronunciation spelling of will, representing Latino-accented English.
Middle English
Adverb
weel
- Alternative form of wel
- (Chaucer)
Adjective
weel
- Alternative form of wel
Scots
Adjective
weel (comparative better, superlative best)
- Well.
Adverb
weel (comparative better, superlative best)
- Well.
Derived terms
- guid an weel (“well and good”)
Interjection
weel
- Well.
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jeel
English
Etymology 1
Noun
jeel (plural jeels)
- 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.
- 1820, Walter Hamilton, A Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Description of Hindostan and the Adjacent Countries, Volume 1, page 246,
Etymology 2
Manx jeeyl, jeeill ("damage"), cognate to Irish díobháil.
Noun
jeel
- (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.)
- page 73, entry "Govvag":
- 1889, Thomas Edward Brown, The Manx Witch: And Other Poems, page 79:
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.
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