# jol
## English
### Etymology

Shortened from jolly?

### Pronunciation

* Audio (General Australian):(file)

### Noun

jol (plural jols)
* (South Africa, slang) A party.
** 2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 249:—Oh sure, high spirits, a jol that went a bit over the top.
** 2020 September 2, “More sex in Stellies with Eva Mazza”, in Sunday Times‎:I had a jol observing the Friday mix at the Radisson RED’s Roof Bar and the engagement between the patrons, especially between the older men and younger women.

### Verb

jol (third-person singular simple present jols, present participle jolling or joling, simple past and past participle jolled or joled)
* (South Africa, slang) to party

### See also

* JO1
* JOI

### Anagrams

* J-Lo

## Dutch
### Etymology

Possibly from Low German and Middle Low German jolle (“dinghy”), possibly ultimately from a Proto-Germanic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewlos (“tube”), see also Lithuanian aulas, Norwegian aul, Hittite [script needed] (auli-, “tube-shaped organ in the neck”), Albanian hollë, Latin alvus.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

jol f (plural jollen, diminutive jolletje n)
* yawl

### References

* ↑ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “205”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 205

## Karaim
### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yōl. Cognate to Karachay-Balkar джол (col), Kumyk ёл (yol), Crimean Tatar yol, Urum йол (yol), etc.

### Noun

jol
* way, road

### References

* N. A. Baskakov, S.M. Šapšala, editor (1973), “jol”, in Karaimsko-Russko-Polʹskij Slovarʹ [Karaim-Russian-Polish Dictionary], Moscow: Moskva, →ISBN

## Karakalpak
### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yōl.

### Noun

jol
* way, road

### References

* N. A. Baskakov, editor (1958), “жол”, in Karakalpaksko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Karakalpak-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: Akademija Nauk Uzbekskoj SSR, →ISBN

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse jóll, jóli, whence also Faroese jólur and Icelandic njóli (< hvannjóli). Related to aul and aule (“hollow plant stem”).

#### Alternative forms

* jøl, ol, jul (dialectal)

#### Noun

jol m (definite singular jolen, indefinite plural jolar, definite plural jolane)
* wild angelica (Angelica sylvestris)
    Synonyms: sløkje, skogstut

##### Derived terms

* geitjol
* kujol
* kvannjol
* sløkjejol
* vendeljol

### Etymology 2

From Old West Norse jól n pl, from Proto-Germanic *jehwlą, *jeulō. Cognate with Old East Norse iūl, whence also jul. Akin to English Yule.

#### Alternative forms

* jul

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /juːl/, /juːɽ/

#### Noun

jol f (definite singular jola, uncountable)
* Christmas, Christmastide
    Eg gler meg til jol.I look forward to Christmas.
* Yule (Germanic celebration of the winter solstice)

##### Derived terms

* god jol
* jolaftan
* jolekvelden
* jolenissen
* jolenek
* joletuften
* joleøl
* romjol

#### References

* “jol” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
* “jol” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

jol f
* (eye dialect spelling, Trøndelag dialect, Eastern Norway) Alternative spelling of jord (“earth”)

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈjɔl/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔl
* Syllabification: jol

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Jolle, from Low German jolle, from Middle Low German jolle. Doublet of jola.

#### Noun

jol m inan
* yawl (fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen stepped abaft the rudder post)
* yawl (small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars)

##### Related terms

* jola
* jolka

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

jol f
* genitive plural of jola

### References

* ↑ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “jol”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
* ↑ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “jol”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN

### Further reading

* jol in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Volapük
### Noun

jol (nominative plural jols)
* waterside, beach, bank

#### Declension

* $^1$ status as a case is disputed
* $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only