# saule
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɔːl/
* Rhymes: -ɔːl

### Noun

saule (plural saules)
* Obsolete form of soul.
** 1802, “Lyke-Wake Dirge”, in Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Walter Scott:To purgatory fire thou comest at laste ; And Christe receive thye saule.
* (Scotland, obsolete) A hired mourner at a funeral.

### Anagrams

* EULAs, Laues, esaul

## French
### Etymology

From Middle French saule, from Old French saule (“willow”), from Gaulish salico (“willow”), from Proto-Celtic *salik, from Proto-Indo-European *salǝḱ-, *salǝk- (“willow”). Cognate with Old High German salaha (“willow”), Old English sealh (“willow”), Latin salix (“willow, willow branch”), Middle Irish sail (“willow”). More at sallow.
Old French saule displaced Old French sauz (“willow”), from Latin salix.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sol/
* Audio (Paris):(file)
* Rhymes: -ol
* Homophone: saules

### Noun

saule m (plural saules)
* willow, willow tree

#### Derived terms

* saule fragile
* saule pleureur

### Further reading

* “saule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* salue, salué

## Latgalian
### Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *sáuˀlijāˀ. Cognates include Latvian saule and Lithuanian saulė.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈsàu̯lʲæ]
* Hyphenation: sau‧le

### Noun

saule f (diminutive sauleite)
* sun

#### Declension
### References

* Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 11

## Latvian
### Alternative forms

* Saule

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sáuˀlijāˀ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [sāūle]

### Noun

saule f (5th declension)
* sun (the star at the center of the Solar System, from which light and heat reach the Earth)
    saule spīd ― the sun is shining
    rīta, vakara, vasaras saule ― morning, evening, summer sun
    saule lec, riet ― the sun rises, sets
    saules lēkts, riets ― sunrise, sunset
    celties līdz ar sauli ― to rise with the sun (= early)
    saules stari, gaisma, siltums ― sun beams, light, heat
    saules sistēma ― Solar System
    saules aptumsums ― solar eclipse
    saules vējš ― solar wind
    saules plankumi ― sun spots
    saules enerģija ― solar energy
* sun, sunlight (the light and heat that comes from the sun; area reached by this light and heat)
    sildīties saulē ― to bask in the sun
    istabā nav saules ― in the room there is no sun
    kaktusiem vajadzīgs daudz saules ― cactuses need much sun
    acis žilbst saulē ― eyes are dazzled in the sun
    atlaisties saulē ― to sit in the sun
* (poetic) world
    šajā saulē dzivot ― to live in this world
    aiziet viņā saulē ― to go away from this world, to die

#### Usage notes

When used to refer to the central star of the Solar System, especially if seen as a location, saule is often capitalized: Saule.

#### Derived terms

* aizsaule
* pasaule
* saulains
* saulesbrilles, saules brilles
* saules sistēma
* saules vējš
* sauļup

#### Related terms

* sauļot, sauļoties

### References

* saule at tezaurs.lv

## Lithuanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɑulɛ/

### Noun

saule
* instrumental singular of saulė
* vocative singular of saulė

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French saoulee, soûlée, past participle of saouler, soûler; compare sauled.

#### Alternative forms

* saulee, sauly, sawle, sawlee, sawli, soule

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sau̯ˈleː/, /ˈsau̯leː/

#### Noun

saule (uncountable)
* One's fill; a sufficient amount of food.

##### References

* “saulẹ̄, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

saule
* Alternative form of sowel (“staff, stake”)

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

saule
* (chiefly Early Middle English, Northern) Alternative form of soule