kölj
North Frisian
Alternative forms
- kuul (Föhr-Amrum, Sylt)
Etymology
From Old Frisian *kōl, from Proto-West Germanic *kōl(ī), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gel-. Cognate with German kühl, English cool. Displaced or absorbed the descendant of West Germanic *kald, which would have yielded *küülj (cf. üülj).
Pronunciation
Adjective
kölj (comparative kouler, superlative koulst)
Inflection
| masculine | feminine / neuter |
plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | |||
| positive | ||||
| predicative / adverbial | kölj | |||
| attributive / independent | koulen | koule | koul | koule |
| partitive | kouls | — | ||
| comparative | ||||
| predicative / adverbial | kouler | |||
| attributive / independent | kouleren | koulere | kouler | koulere |
| partitive | koulers | — | ||
| superlative | ||||
| predicative / adverbial | am koulsten | |||
| attributive / independent | — | koulste | koulst | koulste |