avel

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See also: -ável

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin āvellō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /əˈvɛl/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛl

Verb

avel (third-person singular simple present avels, present participle avelling, simple past and past participle avelled)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To pull away.

Anagrams

Breton

Etymology

From Middle Breton avel, from Old Breton auel, from Proto-Brythonic *awel (“wind”), from Proto-Celtic *awelā (“wind, breeze”) (compare Cornish awel and Welsh awel).

Pronunciation

Noun

avel f

  1. wind

Synonyms

  • (literary, archaic) gwent

Cypriot Arabic

Etymology

From *avel cimplavel, from Arabic أَوَّل (ʔawwal).

Adverb

avel

  1. the year before last

References

  • Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 148

Ladino

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Etymology

From Hebrew אוויר (avír), from Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr).

Noun

avel m (Latin spelling)

  1. air

Further reading

  • Aitor García Moreno, editor (2013–), “aver”, in Diccionario Histórico Judeoespañol (in Spanish), CSIC
  • Joseph Nehama, Jesús Cantera (1977) “avér”, in Dictionnaire du Judéo-Espagnol (in French), Madrid: CSIC, →ISBN, page 69
  • Elli Kohen & Dahlia Kohen-Gordon (2000) “aver”, in Ladino–English Concise Encyclopedic Dictionary, Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, page 51

Romani

Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀆𑀯𑁂𑀤𑀺 (āvedi), from Sanskrit आपयति (āpayati), from the root आप् (āp).

Verb

avel

  1. to come

References

  • Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 39
  • Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “avel (avilǎs)”, in ニューエクスプレスプラス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 146

Swedish

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Noun

avel c

  1. selective breeding (of animals)

Usage notes

Just "breeding" might sound more natural as a translation. Compare uppfödning (“breeding”), which is possibly less selective.

Declension

Declension of avel 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative avel aveln — —
Genitive avels avelns — —

Derived terms

Related terms

  • avla (“to breed”)

See also

References

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