jol

Shortened from jolly?

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jol (plural jols)

1. (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.

jol (third-person singular simple present jols, present participle jolling or joling, simple past and past participle jolled or joled)

1. (South Africa, slang) to party

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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.[1]

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jol f (plural jollen, diminutive jolletje n)

1. yawl

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

• jøl, ol, jul (dialectal)

jol m (definite singular jolen, indefinite plural jolar, definite plural jolane)

1. wild angelica (Angelica sylvestris)

   Synonyms: sløkje, skogstut

• geitjol
• kujol
• kvannjol
• sløkjejol
• vendeljol

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.

• jul

• IPA^(key): /juːl/, /juːɽ/

jol f (definite singular jola, uncountable)

1. Christmas, Christmastide

   Eg gler meg til jol.

   I look forward to Christmas.

2. Yule (Germanic celebration of the winter solstice)

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

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

jol f

1. (eye dialect spelling, Trøndelag, Eastern Norway) Alternative spelling of jord (“earth”)

jol (nominative plural jols)

1. waterside, beach, bank

From Old Norse jǫrð, from Proto-Germanic *erþō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁er-. Akin to English earth.

• IPA^(key): /juːɽ/, /jouːɽ/

  Rhymes: -úːɽ

jol f (definite singular jola, dative joln)

1. earth, soil, ground
2. grave

   Far’n skal dill joln åt helgän

   The father will be buried next Sunday.

• bärjol
• jolbann
• jolber
• jolklotr
• jolmån
• skenjol

From Old Norse jarða and the above noun.

• IPA^(key): /²juːɽ/, /²jouːɽ/

  Rhymes: -ùːɽ

jol

1. to bury