jol
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Shortened from jolly?
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
[edit]jol (plural jols)
- (South Africa, slang) A party.
- 2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 249:
- —Oh sure, high spirits, a jol that went a bit over the top.
- 2020 September 2, “More sex in Stellies with Eva Mazza”, in Sunday Times[1]:
- I had a jol observing the Friday mix at the Radisson RED’s Roof Bar and the engagement between the patrons, especially between the older men and younger women.
Verb
[edit]jol (third-person singular simple present jols, present participle jolling or joling, simple past and past participle jolled or joled)
- (South Africa, slang) to party
See also
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[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly from Low German and Middle Low German jolle (“dinghy”), possibly ultimately from a Proto-Germanic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewlos (“tube”), see also Lithuanian aulas, Norwegian aul, Hittite [script needed] (auli-, “tube-shaped organ in the neck”), Albanian hollë, Latin alvus.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]jol f (plural jollen, diminutive jolletje n)
References
[edit]- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “205”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 205
Karaim
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Turkic *yōl. Cognate to Karachay-Balkar джол (col), Kumyk ёл (yol), Crimean Tatar yol, Urum йол (yol), etc.
Noun
[edit]jol
References
[edit]- N. A. Baskakov, S.M. Šapšala, editor (1973), “jol”, in Karaimsko-Russko-Polʹskij Slovarʹ [Karaim-Russian-Polish Dictionary], Moscow: Moskva, →ISBN
Karakalpak
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Turkic *yōl.
Noun
[edit]jol
References
[edit]- N. A. Baskakov, editor (1958), “жол”, in Karakalpaksko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Karakalpak-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: Akademija Nauk Uzbekskoj SSR, →ISBN
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Norse jóll, jóli, whence also Faroese jólur and Icelandic njóli (< hvannjóli). Related to aul and aule (“hollow plant stem”).
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]jol m (definite singular jolen, indefinite plural jolar, definite plural jolane)
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Old West Norse jól n pl, from Proto-Germanic *jehwlą, *jeulō. Cognate with Old East Norse iūl, whence also jul. Akin to English Yule.
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]jol f (definite singular jola, uncountable)
- Christmas, Christmastide
- Eg gler meg til jol.
- I look forward to Christmas.
- Yule (Germanic celebration of the winter solstice)
Derived terms
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[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]Noun
[edit]jol f
- (eye dialect spelling, Trøndelag dialect, Eastern Norway) Alternative spelling of jord (“earth”)
Polish
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Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from German Jolle,[1][2] from Low German jolle, from Middle Low German jolle. Doublet of jola.
Noun
[edit]jol m inan
- yawl (fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen stepped abaft the rudder post)
- yawl (small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars)
Declension
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
[edit]jol f
References
[edit]- ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “jol”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
- ^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “jol”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
Further reading
[edit]- jol in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Volapük
[edit]Noun
[edit]jol (nominative plural jols)
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- nn:Selineae tribe plants
- nn:Christmas
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