jól

From Old Norse jól, cognate with Danish, Norwegian, Swedish jul, Icelandic jól, Old English geōl and English Yule, from Proto-Germanic *jehwlą, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *yekə- (“joke, play”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɔuːl/
• Rhymes: -ɔuːl

jól n pl (genitive plural jóla)

1. Christmas

   Eg gleði meg til jóla.

   I am looking forward to Christmas.

   Gleðilig jól! ― Merry Christmas!

2. Yule, Yuletide

Lexicalization of jó (“good”) +‎ -l (adverb-of-manner suffix).^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): [ˈjoːl]

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• Rhymes: -oːl

jól (comparative jobban, superlative legjobban)

1. well, fine

   A: Hogy vagy? B: Köszönöm, jól. ― A: How are you? B: Fine, thank you.

• jól in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

From Old Norse jól, from Proto-Germanic *jehwlą, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *yekə- (“joke, play”).

• IPA^(key): /jouːl/

  Rhymes: -ouːl

jól n pl (plural only, genitive plural jóla)

1. Christmas, Noel
2. Yule

•  ýlir

• jól

• *iūl — Old East Norse

From Proto-Germanic *jehwlą, *jeulō, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *yekə- (“joke, play”).

jól n pl (genitive jóla)

1. yule, midwinter season

• Icelandic: jól
• Faroese: jól
• Norwegian Nynorsk: jol
• Old Swedish: iūl
  • Swedish: jul
• Old Danish: iūl
  • Danish: jul
    • Norwegian Bokmål: jul
      • → Norwegian Nynorsk: jul (partially from an earlier East Nordic borrowing)
    • → German: Jul
      • → Dutch: joel
      • ⇒ German: Julfest
        • → Dutch: joelfeest
    • → Greenlandic: juulli
• Old Gutnish: iaul
• ⇒? Old French: jolif, joli
  • French: joli
  • → Middle English: joli, jolie, golli, yoli, yolie, jolif, jolife, jolef, joili
    • English: jolly
      • → Tamil: ஜாலி (jāli)
  • → Italian: giulivo

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “jól”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 234; also available at the Internet Archive