doel

• IPA^(key): /dul/

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• Hyphenation: doel
• Rhymes: -ul

From Middle Dutch doel, doele (“ditch that separated two fields”), from Old Dutch *duola, from Proto-Germanic *dōlijǭ, *dōlijō (“dale, valley”). Related to dal (“dale, valley”). Likely, the initial meaning was "ditch, pit" which shifted to "pile of earth" to "pile of earth used as target in a shooting range" to "shooting target" to "goal".

doel n (plural doelen, diminutive doeltje n)

1. aim, purpose
2. destination
3. (sports) goal

• → Caribbean Javanese: dul

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

doel

1. inflection of doelen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• dole

doel oblique singular, m (oblique plural doeaus or doeax or doiaus or doiax or doels, nominative singular doeaus or doeax or doiaus or doiax or doels, nominative plural doel)

1. pain; suffering; anguish

   Synonyms: travail, dulor, paine, enui

   • 11th-century, La Chanson de Roland‎^[1], page 259:

     Dunc out tel doel unkes mais n'out si grant.

     Then he had such pain as he had never had so great.

• French: deuil
• → Middle English: dole, dele, doell
  • English: dole
  • Yola: dole