weel

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /wiːl/ (General American) IPA(key): /wil/ Homophones: weal; we'll (stressed form); wheel, wheal (wine–whine merger) Rhymes: -iːl === Etymology 1 === From Middle English wele, wyle, welle, likely a fusion of Old Norse vél ("device"; compare Icelandic vél (“a contrivance to catch fish”)) and Middle English welwe, wilwe (“a weir, trap, or other device made of willow branches”), from Old English wilige, wylige (“basket”), related to Old English welig (“willow”). ==== Alternative forms ==== weal (dialectal) ==== Noun ==== weel (plural weels) A trap for catching fish; a weely. (botany) An arrangement of hairs that keeps insects out of flowers. ===== Derived terms ===== weely ===== References ===== 1900, Benjamin Daydon Jackson, A Glossary of Botanic Terms 1900, James Richard Ainsworth Davis, The Flowering Plant (page 112) === Etymology 2 === From Middle English wel, weel, wele, wæl, from Old English wǣl (“weel, a deep pool, gulf, deep water of a stream or of the sea”). Cognate with Scots weil, weel (“pool, eddy, whirlpool”), Middle Low German wêl (“a pool”), Middle Low German wêlen (“to swirl, whirl”). ==== Alternative forms ==== weil, wiel, wale (dialectal) wheel (Lancashire) ==== Noun ==== weel (plural weels) (dialectal or obsolete) A whirlpool. === Etymology 3 === ==== Verb ==== weel Pronunciation spelling of will, representing Latino-accented English. === References === “weel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. == Middle English == === Adverb === weel alternative form of wel === Adjective === weel alternative form of wel == Scots == === Adjective === weel (comparative better, superlative best) Well. === Adverb === weel (comparative better, superlative best) Well. ==== Derived terms ==== guid an weel (“well and good”) weel-kent (“well-known”) === Interjection === weel Well. == Yola == === Verb === weel alternative form of woul === 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 77