wielle

Old English

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwi͜yl.le/, [ˈwi͜yɫ.ɫe]

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *wallijā, from Proto-Germanic *wallijǭ.

Alternative forms

Noun

wielle m or f[1]

  1. fountain, spring
  2. well
Usage notes
  • This noun is a feminine ō-stem in eastern Mercian (see wiell), a feminine n-stem in western Mercian, a masculine a-stem or ja-stem in West Saxon (see also wiell), and a masculine n-stem in Kentish (see wiella).[1]
Declension
Masculine

Strong ja-stem:

singular plural
nominative wielle wiellas
accusative wielle wiellas
genitive wielles wiella
dative wielle wiellum
Feminine

Weak n-stem:

Derived terms
Descendants
  • Middle English: welle, wille, wælle, walle, wolle (merged with descendant of Old English wiella and wiell)
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Kitson, Peter (1990), “On old English nouns of more than one gender”, in English Studies, volume 71, number 3, Taylor & Francis, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 208-210.

Etymology 2

Verb

wielle

  1. inflection of wiellan:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. singular present subjunctive