cule

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See also: culé, -cule, and čule

Albanian

Etymology 1

Disputed, possibilities include:

  1. Akin to Slovene cula (“bundle”), Hungarian cula (“bundle”).
  2. A variant of the often synonymous crule, cërrule, itself akin to Serbo-Croatian crȅvlja／цре̏вља (“shoe”), Bulgarian цървул (cǎrvul, “type of shoe”).
  3. Borrowed from Greek τσόλι (tsóli), τσούλι (tsoúli, “rag”).

There may be a conflation of multiple sources.

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

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡sule/, (dialectal) /t͡suˈle/
  • Rhymes: -ule, -e

Noun

cule f (plural cule)

  1. bedding
  2. bundle
  3. swaddling clothes
    Synonym: shpërgënj
  4. rags, tatters
    Synonyms: zhele, lecka, cërule
  5. crowd, band, group of people
    Synonym: çetë
Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Meyer, G. (1891) “tsuľé”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 442
  2. ^ Ylli, Xhelal (1997) “crule”, in Das slavische Lehngut im Albanischen (Slavistische Beiträge; 350)‎, volume 1. Lehnwörter, Munich: Otto Sagner, page 49b

Further reading

  • “cule i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980, page 233a
  • Mann, S. E. (1948) “cule”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 52b

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

cule f (plural cule)

  1. Alternative form of cyle

References

  • “cule ii”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980, page 233a

Czech

Pronunciation

Verb

cule

  1. masculine singular present transgressive of culit

French

Verb

cule

  1. inflection of culer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Noun

cūle

  1. vocative singular of cūlus

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *kūla, from Proto-Germanic *kūlō.

Noun

cule f or m

  1. hole in the ground, dip, pit

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Dutch: kuil
  • Limburgish: koel

Further reading

Middle English

Noun

cule

  1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of coule

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: cu‧le

Noun

cule m (plural cules)

  1. Alternative form of cúli
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