veel

veel (uncountable)

1. Obsolete spelling of veal

veel (third-person singular simple present veels, present participle veeling, simple past and past participle veeled)

1. (nonstandard, Britain) feel
   • 1869, James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire

     To Veel. v. To feel.

     Veel’d. part. Felt.

veel (plural veels)

1. (nonstandard, Britain) field

• 1850, James Orchard Halliwell, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century

  But why do they let ’un stray out of the veels?

• 1869, James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire

  Veel. s. A field; a corn land unenclosed.

• veelvare

• EVEL, elev., elve, vele

• Rhymes: -eːl
• IPA^(key): /veːl/

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From Middle Dutch vele, from Old Dutch filo, from Proto-Germanic *felu.

veel (comparative meer, superlative meest)

1. many, much

• weinig

• hoeveel
• veelal
• veelheid
• veelhoek
• veels
• veelst
• veler
• velerlei
• zoveel

veel (comparative meer, superlative het meest or het meeste)

1. much, a lot

   Vanaf hier kan ik veel zien.

   From here I can see a lot.

• weinig

veel (comparative meer, superlative meest)

1. much
2. often, frequently

• (frequently): vaak

• weinig
• (frequency): zelden

• veelgebruikt

veel

1. first-person singular present indicative of velen
2. imperative of velen

• leve, vele

• völle

Cognate to German viel.

• IPA^(key): /feˑl/

veel

1. much

veel

1. much, many

From a Baltic language. Cognate to Lithuanian vėl, Latvian vēl and Finnish vielä.

veel

1. yet, still

• elev

• vȩl
• vẹl
• (Mecklenburgisch, Western Pomeranian) vęl, vääl (väl, vel)
• (Eastern Westphalian) viel, vill

Cognate to German viel.

veel

1. (in many dialects, including Low Prussian) much

   (Low Prussian) veel to lat

   much too late

veel

1. (in many dialects, including Low Prussian) much (a lot of) (when used in the singular)

   (Low Prussian) veel Melk

   a lot of milk

2. (in many dialects, including Low Prussian) many (when used in the plural)

   (Low Prussian) veele Kinga

   many children

veel

1. yet

• veele, vele, veale

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman veel, from Latin vitellus.

• IPA^(key): /vɛːl/, /vɛl/

veel (plural veles)

1. veal (the meat of a calf)
2. A calf (young cow)
   • c. 1450, Mirour Saluacioun

     The ydolatiers of the golden veel.

• English: veal
• Scots: veal, veall, vale

• “vēl(e (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-5.

• vedel

Inherited from Latin vitellus.

veel m (oblique plural veeaus or veeax or veiaus or veiax or veels, nominative singular veeaus or veeax or veiaus or veiax or veels, nominative plural veel)

1. calf (young cow or bull)

• English: veal (borrowed)
• French: veau

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (veel, supplement)
• veel on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub