wull
- Pronunciation spelling ofwill.
wull
- alternative form ofwolle
FromProto-West Germanic*wullu, fromProto-Germanic*wullō, from*wulnā, fromProto-Indo-European*h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂.
wull f
- wool
Sċēap man hielt for heorawulle and flǣsċe.- Sheep are kept for theirwool 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 swāwull.- 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 aswool.
Strongō-stem:
wull
- alternative form ofwoul(“will”)
1867,OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR:'Chull, for Ichwull.- Iwill.
wull
- alternative form ofwaal(“well”)
1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, inSONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page106: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, published1867,page16 & 79
