oll

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See also: Oll, OLL, öll, oll-, and Oll.

German

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Etymology

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From German Low German oll-, the inflected stem of old/olt (old), from Middle Low German olt, from Old Saxon ald. Doublet of alt. Cognate with English old, which see for more.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɔl/
  • Audio:(file)

Adjective

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oll (strong nominative masculine singular oller, comparative oller, superlative am ollsten)

  1. (informal, often derogatory) old, shabby (of things)
    Der olle Teppich hier müsste mal raus.
    This shabby carpet needs to be thrown out.
  2. (informal) old (used as a mild expletive, mostly before names)
    der olle Herr Schmidtold Mr. Schmidt (literally, “the old Mr. Schmidt”)
    • 1924, Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain], volume 2, Berlin: S. Fischer, page 479:
      „Nun werden Sie denken, Castorp, der olle Behrens muß zugeben, daß er die Behandlung verfehlt hat. Da hätten Sie aber einen Bock geschossen und wären der Sachlage nicht gerecht geworden und dem ollen Behrens auch nicht. []
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • oll” in Duden online
  • oll” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish, from Proto-Celtic *ɸolnos, from Proto-Indo-European *polh₁-, o-grade derivative of the root *pleh₁- (to fill).

Adjective

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oll (genitive singular masculine oill, genitive singular feminine oille, plural olla, comparative oille)

  1. great; huge, vast, immense

Declension

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  • oll- (great, gross, prefix)

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
oll n-oll holl not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *ɸolnos, from Proto-Indo-European *polh₁-, o-grade derivative of the root *pelh₁- (to fill). Cognates include Ancient Greek πολύς (polús, many), Latin plūs (more), Sanskrit पुरु (purú, much, many, abundant), and Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌿 (filu, much, very).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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oll (comparative uilliu)

  1. great, vast

Inflection

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o/ā-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative oll oll oll
Vocative uill*
oll**
Accusative oll uill
Genitive uill uille uill
Dative oll uill oll
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative uill olla
Vocative ollu
olla
Accusative ollu
olla
Genitive oll
Dative ollaib
Notes *modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative

**modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative
† not when substantivized

Descendants

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  • Irish: oll

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
oll
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged n-oll
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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