wahl

• vaal
• vaal
• val
• val
• vaḷ
• vɑ̂ɽ
• vääl
• vol

• IPA^(key): [ʋɑ̀ːɽ], [wɑ̀ːɽ], [ʋæ̀ːɽ], [ʋòːɽ], [ʋèːɽ] (example of pronunciation)

From Old Norse verða

wāhl (present tense wa´hl, preterite wa´htt or vahdt or vadht, supine wōhttĭ or vohdtä or vodhtä, past participle wōhlĭ or volän)

1. to become

   val varan

   to remain, to stay

   hä will int wahl

   it is not happening, it does not want to occur

   Han a vodhtä store fola förmer

   He has become all the multitude better.

   Ji ha vodhtä fredu sjukdomen

   I have become free from the sickness

   Han a vodhtä sä mått dill säg nu, att’n ändteligen jär sä kangäl säg frå sängja dill spisom

   He has now become better so that he at last can stagger from the bed to the stove

   Han a tövlä pójken sä’n a vodhtä ljettvisst

   He has softened the boy so that he willingly goes where you send him.

2. may, should

   du wahl gå nu

   you may or should go now

• wăhlstȧ̆

From Old Norse verða, from Proto-Germanic *werþōną.

wāhl (preterite wāhlä̆)

1. to guarantee

   urmakarn valä klakka at hon skul ga

   The watchmaker guaranteed that the clock would work

• Stenberg, Pehr, Widmark, Gusten “varda v wāhl”, “vorden a wōhlĭ” in Ordbok över Umemålet [Dictionary of the Umeå speech], →ISBN, page 143, 149
• Rietz, Johan Ernst, “vodhtä”, in Svenskt dialektlexikon: ordbok öfver svenska allmogespråket [Swedish dialectal lexicon: a dictionary for the Swedish lects] (in Swedish), 1962 edition, Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups Förlag, published 1862–1867, page 129, 164, 307, 747