fuayle
Middle English
Alternative forms
- fewell, fuell
- fewaile, fewaille, fewall, fewel, ffuell, fowell, fuel (Late Middle English)
- feoile (AB language); fuelle, fwell (Catholicon Anglicum); ffewayle, fowayle (Promptorium Parvulorum)
- feual, feuale, fewale, fewalle, fuayl, fwaill (Early Scots)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French feuaille, fouaille.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fiu̯ˈæi̯l(ə)/, /ˈfiu̯ɛl/
- IPA(key): /fuːˈæi̯l(ə)/, /ˈfuːɛl/ (rare, from fouaille)
Noun
fuayle (uncountable)
Descendants
References
- “feuē̆l, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- “fewale, fewall, fewel(l, 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.