Wiel

First attested as to weel. Borrowed from West Frisian It Wiel, derived in turn from Old Frisian wiel (“kolk lake, kolk pool”).

• IPA^(key): /ʋil/

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• Hyphenation: Wiel
• Rhymes: -il
• Homophone: wiel

Wiel n

1. A hamlet in Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands

• van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN

• Wiele, Wehl, Wehle

Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *hwehwl, from Proto-Germanic *hwehwlą (“wheel”). In the sense “bundle of rope” through Middle Low German wêl. The sense “whirlpool” may be from Low German too, but it has also been attested in southern sources (the very first being notably from Nuremberg in the 15th century). Therefore inheritance through Old High German *wihil cannot be ruled out. Otherwise the word is only inherited in High German in the compounds Wielstein and Wielesche.

• IPA^(key): /viːl/

Wiel f (genitive Wiel, plural Wielen)

1. (obsolete) vortex, whirl, whirlpool
2. (obsolete, nautical) round bundle of old rope used to protect the sides of a ship
   • 1835, Jens Jacob Eschels, Lebensbeschreibung eines alten Seemannes, Hamburg: Hammerich & Lesser, page 29:

     Nun arbeiteten die Zimmerleute drei Tage, den Schaden so weit wie möglich auszubessern, aber wir konnten mit dem Schiffe nicht im Eise bohren, sondern mußten vorsichtig im Eise segeln, und es wurde eine große Wiel von einem schweren Ankertaue gemacht, das in Enden getappt und in Fensterweite aneinander befestigt wurde.

     Now the carpenters were working for three days in order to mend the damage as much as possible, however, we couldn't drill with the ship into the ice but we had to sail carefully within the ice and a big bundle of rope was made from heavy anchor cable that was cut at the ends and fastened in the width of a window.

   • 1869, Polizeiordnung für den zu Osterende-Otterndorf und Westerende-Otterndorf belegenen, vom Außentiefe der Medem gebildeten Otterndorfer Hafen und für die Medemschleuse, Hanover

     Außerdem müssen bei Schiffen über 10 Last sogenannte Wielen von geflochtenem Tauwerke, zur Verhütung heftigen Anstoßens, an die Wände oder Thüren der Schleuse ausgehängt und sorgsam benutzt werden.

     Furthermore, for ships of over 10 lasts, so-called bundles of rope have to be hung out and be made use of cautiously on the walls and the doors of the floodgate for the prevention of heavy bumping.

From Middle High German wale, from Old High German wala, from Proto-West Germanic *walu. The expected form would be *Wuel; the umlaut is from the verb wielen.

• IPA^(key): /vie̯l/,
• Rhymes: -iəl

Wiel f (plural Wielen)

1. choice, selection

   Synonym: Choix

• Wal
• wielen
• Wieler