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/, [wuɫ]

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 [lit. "she was of a very black body"] 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

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”)

• Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 16 & 79