vell

See also: vel'l' and vell-

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛl

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

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

1. (UK, dialect) To cut the turf from, as for burning.
   • 1796, William Marshall, Rural Economy of the West of England:

     For velling, the share is made wide, with the angle or outer point of the wing or fin turned upward, to separate the turf entirely from the soil

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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vell”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbeʎ]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈveʎ]
• Rhymes: -eʎ

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan vell~veyl, from Vulgar Latin veclus, from Latin vetulus, diminutive of vetus. Compare Occitan vièlh, French vieux, Spanish viejo.

Adjective

vell (feminine vella, masculine plural vells, feminine plural velles)

1. old

   Antonyms: jove, nou

Derived terms

• vellesa

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin vĕllus, or a variant of velló.

Noun

vell m (plural vells)

1. (agriculture) fleece

Related terms

• velló

References

• “vell” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “vell”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “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. (pre-2012) alternative form of vel

Verb

vell

1. present tense of velle
2. imperative of velle

Old Norse

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

vell n

1. (poetic) gold

Declension

  Declension of vell (strong a-stem)

neuter	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	vell	vellit	vell	vellin
accusative	vell	vellit	vell	vellin
dative	velli	vellinu	vellum	vellunum
genitive	vells	vellsins	vella	vellanna

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

vell

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

Yola

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛɫ/

Verb

vell

1. simple past of vall
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 7, page 86:

     Th' heiftem o' pley vell all ing to lug;

     The weight of the play fell into the hollow;

   • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 5, page 96:

     Zoo wough aul vell a-danceen; earch bye gae a poage

     So we all fell a-dancing; each boy gave a kiss

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 75