oll

From German Low German oll-, the inflected stem of old/olt (“old”), from Middle Low German olt, from Old Saxon ald. Doublet of alt. Cognate with English old, which see for more.

• IPA^(key): /ɔl/

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oll (strong nominative masculine singular oller, comparative oller, superlative am ollsten)

1. (informal, often derogatory) old, shabby (of things)

   Der olle Teppich hier müsste mal raus.

   This shabby carpet needs to be thrown out.

2. (informal) old (used as a mild expletive, mostly before names)

   der olle Herr Schmidt ― old Mr. Schmidt (literally, “the old Mr. Schmidt”)

   • 1924, Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg, volume 2, Berlin: S. Fischer, page 479:

     „Nun werden Sie denken, Castorp, der olle Behrens muß zugeben, daß er die Behandlung verfehlt hat. Da hätten Sie aber einen Bock geschossen und wären der Sachlage nicht gerecht geworden und dem ollen Behrens auch nicht. […]

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• olle Kamelle

• “oll” in Duden online
• “oll” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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From Old Irish, from Proto-Celtic *ɸolnos, from Proto-Indo-European *polh₁-, o-grade derivative of the root *pleh₁- (“to fill”).

oll (genitive singular masculine oill, genitive singular feminine oille, plural olla, comparative oille)

1. great; huge, vast, immense

• oll- (“great, gross”, prefix)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “oll”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “oll”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Proto-Celtic *ɸolnos, from Proto-Indo-European *polh₁-, o-grade derivative of the root *pelh₁- (“to fill”). Cognates include Ancient Greek πολύς (polús, “many”), Latin plūs (“more”), Sanskrit पुरु (purú, “much, many, abundant”), and Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌿 (filu, “much, very”).

• IPA^(key): /ol͈/

oll (comparative uilliu)

1. great, vast

• Irish: oll

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “oll”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language