wull

wull

1. Pronunciation spelling of will.

wull

1. Alternative form of wolle

From Proto-West Germanic *wullu, from Proto-Germanic *wullō, from *wulnā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂.

• IPA^(key): /wull/,

wull f

1. wool

   Sċēap man hielt for heora wulle and flǣsċe.

   Sheep are kept for their wool and meat.

   • c. 996, Ælfric, Lives of Saints

     Swīðe sweartes līchaman hēo wæs for þǣre sunnan hǣte, and þā loccas hire hēafdes wǣron swā hwīte swā wull.

     Her skin was tanned very dark from the sun's heat, and the locks of her hair were as white as wool.

• Middle English: wolle, wol, woll, woolle, woul, woule, wull, wulle
  • English: wool
  • Scots: woll, wol, wow, wo, oull, owll, owl, oo
  • Yola: wul

• IPA^(key): /wʊɫ/
• Homophone: wul

wull

1. Alternative form of woul (“will”)
   • 1867, OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR:

     'Chull, for Ich wull.

     I will.

wull

1. Alternative form of waal (“well”)
   • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 106:

     A skudhelès, lhaung roosta, wull glaude leth aam what.

     The knives, that were long rusty, well-pleased let them whet.

• 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 16 & 79