foular
Middle Scots
Alternative forms
- fouller, fowlar, fowlair, fowlare
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English fouler, foulere, from Old English fugelere, fuglere, from Proto-West Germanic *fuglārī; by surface analysis, foul (“bird”) + -ar (agent noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfuːlər/
Noun
foular (plural foularis)
References
- “foular, foul(l)er, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.