yawl

See also: y'awl

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɔːl/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Homophone: y'all
• Rhymes: -ɔːl

Etymology 1

Apparently from Low German and Middle Low German jolle, or Dutch jol, 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.

Noun

yawl (plural yawls)

1. A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.
2. A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen stepped abaft the rudder post.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 193:

     The “Nellie,” a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

Descendants

• → Portuguese: aiola, aiole, iole

Translations

sailing vessel

• Bulgarian: шлю́пка (bg) f (šljúpka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 划子 (zh) (huázi), 舢板 (zh) (shānbǎn)

• Czech: jola f
• Finnish: jooli (fi)
• French: yole (fr) m
• Georgian: კარჭაპი (ḳarč̣aṗi), ორჩხომელი (orčxomeli)
• German: Jolle (de) f, Beiboot (de) n
• Irish: geolta m
• Italian: iolla f
• Japanese: ヨール (yōru)
• Macedonian: јо́ла f (jóla), едри́лица f (edrílica)
• Manx: yawl m
• Plautdietsch: Boot (nds) n
• Portuguese: iole (pt) f
• Russian: ял (ru) m (jal), йол (ru) m (jol), шлю́пка (ru) f (šljúpka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шојка f, шљупка f

  Roman: šojka (sh) f, šljupka (sh) f

• Spanish: yola (es) f

Etymology 2

Imitative.

Verb

yawl (third-person singular simple present yawls, present participle yawling, simple past and past participle yawled)

1. To cry out; to howl.

Anagrams

• waly, wyla

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jol/

• Audio (Switzerland)

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Noun

yawl m (plural yawls)

1. yawl (type of boat)

Further reading

• “yawl”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Manx

Etymology

Borrowed from English yawl.

Noun

yawl m (genitive singular yawl, plural yawlyn)

1. yawl