different between goll vs boll

English

Etymology 1

Noun

goll (plural golls)

1. (obsolete) A hand.

Etymology 2

From God.

Proper noun

goll

1. (dialect, euphemistic) God

Manx

Etymology

See Irish goil.

Noun

goll m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. verbal noun of immee
2. going

Synonyms

• immeeaght

Derived terms

• goll as gaccan (“going and grumbling”)

Mutation

English

Etymology

From Middle English bolle (“pod; shell”) and Middle Dutch bolle (“round object”); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bullô (“round object; bowl”). More at bowl.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b?l/
• Rhymes: -?l
• (US) IPA^(key): /bo?l/
• Rhymes: -o?l
• Homophones: bole, bowl

Noun

boll (plural bolls)

1. The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.
   • 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 1, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, page 6:^[1]

     The champion picker of the day before was the hero of the dawn. If he prophesied that the cotton in today’s field was going to be sparse and stick to the bolls like glue, every listener would grunt a hearty agreement.

2. (Scotland) An old dry measure equal to six bushels.

Derived terms

• boll weevil
• throat-boll

Translations

Verb

boll (third-person singular simple present bolls, present participle bolling, simple past and past participle bolled)

1. To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.

   • The barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• bóol (Sette Comuni)

Etymology

From Middle High German wol, wole, from Old High German wola, from Proto-Germanic *wela. Cognate with German wohl, Dutch wel, English well, Icelandic vel.

Adverb

boll

1. (Luserna) well

   Synonym: gerècht

References

• “boll” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Maltese

Etymology

From Italian bollo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?ll/

Noun

boll m (plural bolol)

1. postage stamp
2. brand

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish balder, baller, from Old Norse b?llr (“ball, globe”), from Proto-Germanic *balluz, from Proto-Indo-European *b?oln- (“round thing, bubble”), from *b?el- (“to blow, inflate, swell”).

Pronunciation

Noun

boll c

1. a ball; a more or less spherical object which is not hard or unyielding

Declension

Derived terms

See also

• klot
• kula
• sfär

References

• boll in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)