weel

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /wiːl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /wil/
  • (US)

    (file)

• Homophones: weal, wheel (in accents with the wine-whine merger), wheal (in accents with the wine-whine merger), we'll (one pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -iːl

From Middle English wele, wyle, welle, likely a fusion of Old Norse vél ("device"; compare Icelandic vél (“a contrivance to catch fish”)) and Middle English welwe, wilwe (“a weir, trap, or other device made of willow branches”), from Old English wilige, wylige (“basket”), related to Old English welig (“willow”).

• weal (dialectal)

weel (plural weels)

1. trap for catching fish; a weely.

• weely

From Middle English wel, weel, wele, wæl, from Old English wǣl (“weel, a deep pool, gulf, deep water of a stream or of the sea”). Cognate with Scots weil, weel (“pool, eddy, whirlpool”), Middle Low German wêl (“a pool”), Middle Low German wêlen (“to swirl, whirl”).

• weil, wiel, wale (dialectal)
• wheel (Lancashire)

weel (plural weels)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) A whirlpool.

weel

1. Pronunciation spelling of will, representing Latino-accented English.

weel

1. Alternative form of wel
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Myllers Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     He thakked hire aboute the lendes weel

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

weel

1. Alternative form of wel

weel (comparative better, superlative best)

1. Well.

weel (comparative better, superlative best)

1. Well.
   • 1794, Robert Burns, A Red, Red Rose:

     And fare thee weel, my only Luve
     And fare thee weel a while!

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• guid an weel (“well and good”)
• weel-kent (“well-known”)

weel

1. Well.

• IPA^(key): /wiːɫ/
• Homophones: wheel, whil, while

weel

1. Alternative form of woul

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 77