houle

== French == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle French houle (“swell”), probably from an Old Northern French *houle (“cavity, hole”, attested in modern dialects), itself from Old Norse hol (“cave, hole”), from Proto-Germanic *hulą, whence also English hole. The sense would derive from the bulges and hollows of the waves. === Pronunciation === (aspirated h) IPA(key): /ul/ === Noun === houle f (plural houles) swell (of water) === Further reading === “houle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Yola == === Etymology === From Middle English houlde, from Old English healdan, from Proto-West Germanic *haldan. Compare Scots houl (“hold”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /həʊl/ === Verb === houle (past participle ee-halt) to hold === References === 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 47