vella

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

vella

1. feminine singular of vell

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛʎɐ/

vella f sg

1. feminine singular of vello

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛtla/

  Rhymes: -ɛtla

From Old Norse vella, from Proto-Germanic *wallijǭ, perhaps also partly from a *wellǭ.

vella f (genitive singular vellu, nominative plural vellur)

1. boil, boiling, bubbling
2. milk that has been boiled until it curdles and forms a reddish thick substance similar to whey cheese
3. a stifling heat
4. the sound made by a whimbrel
5. chatter
6. flattery
7. weakling
8. a small portion (e.g. of coffee)
9. a minor sickness
10. (regional) slob

From Old Norse vella, from Proto-Germanic *wellaną, *wallaną.

vella (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative vall, third-person plural past indicative ullu, supine ollið)

1. to bubble, to boil, to simmer
2. to flow, to well up, to stream
3. to be crawling
4. to chatter
5. to make the sound characteristic of the whimbrel

From Old Norse vella, from Proto-Germanic *wallijaną.

vella (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative velldi, supine vellt)

1. to boil, cause to simmer
2. to make the sound characteristic of the whimbrel (also figuratively in vella graut, literally “boil porridge”)

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)

vella

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

• valle

• velle

From Old Norse vella. Akin to English well.

• IPA^(key): /²ʋɛlːɑ/

vella (present tense vell, past tense vall, supine volle, past participle vollen, present participle vellande, imperative vell)

1. to well, gush, flow (issue forth, as water from the earth)

• “vella” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *wallijǭ.

vella f

1. boiling heat, ebullition

• Icelandic: vella

• “vella”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From Proto-Germanic *wellaną, *wallaną (“to well up”).

vella (singular past indicative vall, plural past indicative ullu, past participle ollinn)

1. (intransitive) to be in a state of ebullition, boil
2. to well up, swarm

• “vella”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vella

1. genitive plural of vell

-vélla

1. to go and check something, to take a look at, to keep an eyeon someone/something

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

vella f (plural vellas)

1. Obsolete spelling of vela.

The unetymological <-a> /-ә/ was inserted to separate consonants.

vella

1. Alternative form of waal (“well”)
   • 1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 129, line 9:

     Zien, "a blaak vall, a blaak vall, Ich meigh vella knew,

     Saying "a black fall, a black fall——I might well have known,

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 129