# vella
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈbe.ʎə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈve.ʎə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈve.ʎa]

### Adjective

vella
* feminine singular of vell

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɛɟa/ [ˈbɛ.ɟɐ]
* Rhymes: -ɛɟa
* Hyphenation: ve‧lla

### Adjective

vella f sg
* feminine singular of vello

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvɛtla/
    Rhymes: -ɛtla

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse vella, from Proto-Germanic *wallijǭ, perhaps also partly from a *wellǭ.

#### Noun

vella f (genitive singular vellu, nominative plural vellur)
* boil, boiling, bubbling
* milk that has been boiled until it curdles and forms a reddish thick substance similar to whey cheese
* a stifling heat
* the sound made by a whimbrel
* chatter
* flattery
* weakling
* a small portion (e.g. of coffee)
* a minor sickness
* (regional) slob

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

From Old Norse vella, from Proto-Germanic *wellaną, *wallaną.

#### Verb

vella (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative vall, third-person plural past indicative ullu, supine ollið)
* to bubble, to boil, to simmer
* to flow, to well up, to stream
* to be crawling [with í ‘with’]
* to chatter
* to make the sound characteristic of the whimbrel

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 3

From Old Norse vella, from Proto-Germanic *wallijaną.

#### Verb

vella (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative velldi, supine vellt)
* to boil, cause to simmer [with accusative]
* to make the sound characteristic of the whimbrel (also figuratively in vella graut, literally “boil porridge”)

##### Conjugation
### References

* Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)

## Italian
### Verb

vella
* inflection of vellere:
** first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* valle

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* velle

### Etymology

From Old Norse vella. Akin to English well.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²ʋɛlːɑ/

### Verb

vella (present tense vell, past tense vall, supine volle, past participle vollen, present participle vellande, imperative vell)
* to well, gush, flow (issue forth, as water from the earth)

### References

* “vella” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old Norse
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *wallijǭ.

#### Noun

vella f
* boiling heat, ebullition

##### Descendants

* Icelandic: vella

#### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “vella”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *wellaną, *wallaną (“to well up”).

#### Verb

vella (singular past indicative vall, plural past indicative ullu, past participle ollinn)
* (intransitive) to be in a state of ebullition, boil
* to well up, swarm

##### Descendants

* Icelandic: vella
* Norwegian Nynorsk: vella, velle
* Norwegian Bokmål: velle
* Old Swedish: vælla
** Swedish: välla
* Danish: vælde

#### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “vella”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

vella
* genitive plural of vell

## Phuthi
### Verb

-vélla
* to go and check something, to take a look at, to keep an eyeon someone/something

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Portuguese
### Noun

vella f (plural vellas)
* Obsolete spelling of vela.

## Yola
### Etymology

The unetymological <-a> /-ә/ was inserted to separate consonants.

### Adverb

vella
* Alternative form of waal (“well”)
** 1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 129, line 9:Zien, "a blaak vall, a blaak vall, Ich meigh vella knew,Saying "a black fall, a black fall——I might well have known,

### References

* Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 129