# jól
## Faroese
### Etymology

From Old Norse jól, cognate with Danish, Norwegian, Swedish jul, Icelandic jól, Old English geōl and English Yule, from Proto-Germanic *jehwlą, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *yekə- (“joke, play”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈjɔuːl/
* Rhymes: -ɔuːl

### Noun

jól n pl (plurale tantum, genitive plural jóla)
* Christmas
    Eg gleði meg til jóla.
       I am looking forward to Christmas.
    eg fekk tað til jóla í fjørI got it as a Christmas present last year
* Yule, Yuletide

#### Declension
## Hungarian
### Etymology

Lexicalization of jó (“good”) +‎ -l (adverb-of-manner suffix).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈjoːl]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -oːl

### Adverb

jól (comparative jobban, superlative legjobban)
* well, fine
    A: Hogy vagy? B: Köszönöm, jól. ― A: How are you? B: Fine, thank you.

#### Derived terms

* jóllehet
* jólesik
* jóllakik → jóllakat
* jóltart
* jól formált
* új seprű jól seper

### References

* ↑ jól in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
* ↑ Eőry, Vilma. Értelmező szótár+ (“Explanatory Dictionary Plus”). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2007. →ISBN

### Further reading

* jól in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse jól, from Proto-Germanic *jehwlą, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *yekə- (“joke, play”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jouːl/
    Rhymes: -ouːl

### Noun

jól n pl (plural only, genitive plural jóla)
* Christmas, Noel
* Yule

#### Derived terms

* jólabjór
* jóladagur
* jólafasta
* jólafrí
* jólagjöf
* jólahelgi
* jólakvöld
* jólaköttur
* jólalag
* jólaleyfi
* jólaleyti
* jólaljós
* jólamatur
* jólanótt
* jólasálmur
* jólaskraut
* jólasteik
* jólasveinn
* jólatré

#### Related terms

* ýlir

### References

* jól

## Old Norse
### Alternative forms

* *iūl — Old East Norse

### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *jehwlą, *jeulō, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *yekə- (“joke, play”).

### Noun

jól n pl (genitive jóla)
* yule, midwinter season

#### Derived terms

* jólaaptann m
* jólaboð n
* jóladagr m
* jóladrykkja f
* jólafasta f
* jólafriðr m
* jólagjǫf f
* jólahald n
* jólakveld n
* jólamorginn m
* jólanátt f, jólanótt f
* jólatíðir f pl
* jólaveizla f
* jólavist f
* jólaǫl n
* jólnir m

#### Descendants

* Icelandic: jól
* Faroese: jól
* Norwegian Nynorsk: jol
* Old Swedish: iūl
** Swedish: jul
* Old Danish: iūl
** Danish: jul
*** Norwegian Bokmål: jul
**** → Norwegian Nynorsk: jul (partially from an earlier East Nordic borrowing)
*** → German: Jul
**** → Dutch: joel
**** ⇒ German: Julfest
***** → Dutch: joelfeest
*** → Greenlandic: juulli
* Old Gutnish: iaul
* →? Old French: jolif (see there for further descendants)

### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “jól”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 234; also available at the [https://archive.org/stream/concisedictionar001857
* page/234 Internet Archive]