Ool

• Ööl, Ääl, Iel (scattered variants)

From Middle High German āl, from Proto-Germanic *ēlaz. Cognate with German Aal, English eel etc.

The front-vowel byforms are backformations from the (rare, but attested) Middle High German umlauted plural æle. The same also explains the alternative feminine gender. The form Iel would be the strictly phonetic development in most areas, but is in practice the rarest because of the influence of the original singular. (Note that this form does underlie in Luxembourgish Éil.)

• IPA^(key): /ɔːl/

Ool m or f (plural Oole or Ööl or Ääl, diminutive Öölche or Äälche)

1. (many dialects) eel (fish)

   Hä wengk sich wie nen Ool.

   He’s wriggling like an eel.

• Mostly masculine, locally feminine.

First attested as ole between 1294 and 1295. Derived from ool (“land next to water, humid low-lying land”), an obsolete derivative of Proto-West Germanic *auwju (“floodplain, meadow”).

See also Limburgish Oeal.

• IPA^(key): /oːl/
• Hyphenation: Ool
• Rhymes: -oːl

Ool n

1. a village in Roermond, Limburg, Netherlands

• van Berkel, Gerard; Samplonius, Kees (2018), Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN

Ool m (plural Olen)

1. alternative form of Aal

Ool m (plural Ööle)

1. (Paderbornisch) alternative form of Aal

• Niu lustert mol! Plattdeutsche Erzählungen und Anekdoten im Paderborner Dialekt. Aus dem Leben gegriffen und niedergeschrieben von einem Sohne der rothen Erde. Nebst einer Zugabe von plattdeutschen Gedichten, Celle, 1870, p. 6f.

From Middle High German āl, from Old High German āl.

• IPA^(key): /ˈoːl/
• Rhymes: -oːl
• Syllabification: Ool

Ool m (plural Eel or Ool)

1. eel

   Meer hon en Ool gefang.

   We caught an eel.

• Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “Ool”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 120