"gool" meaning in Cornish

See gool in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [ɡoːl] [Revived-Middle-Cornish], [ɡuːl] [Revived-Late-Cornish] Forms: golyow [plural], gol [alternative]
Etymology: From Middle Cornish goil, from Latin vigilia (“wakefulness, watch”), from vigil (“awake”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be strong”). Cognate with Breton gouel and Welsh gŵyl. Etymology templates: {{inh|kw|cnx|goil}} Middle Cornish goil, {{der|kw|la|vigilia|t=wakefulness, watch}} Latin vigilia (“wakefulness, watch”), {{der|kw|ine-pro|*weǵ-|t=to be strong}} Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be strong”), {{cog|br|gouel}} Breton gouel, {{cog|cy|gŵyl}} Welsh gŵyl Head templates: {{head|kw|noun||||{{{d2}}}|plural|golyow||||||cat2=|g=m|head=}} gool m (plural golyow), {{kw-noun|m|golyow}} gool m (plural golyow)
  1. feast, fair, festival Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-gool-kw-noun-EFIx3cTJ Categories (other): Cornish entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Cornish entries with incorrect language header: 34 24 42 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 34 33 33 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 33 32 35
  2. vigil, wake, watch Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-gool-kw-noun-shIucksz Categories (other): Cornish entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Cornish entries with incorrect language header: 34 24 42 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 34 33 33 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 33 32 35
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: dy'gol (english: feast day), gool an deys (english: harvest home), Gool Enys (english: carnival, Shrovetide), Gool Peran (english: St Piran's Day)
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: [ɡoːl] [Revived-Middle-Cornish], [ɡuːl] [Revived-Late-Cornish] Forms: golyow [plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], gool [unmutated], wool [soft], kool [error-unrecognized-form], hwool [mixed], wool [after-th, mutation-mixed], gol [alternative]
Etymology: From Latin velum (“veil, cloth”), similar to Old Irish fíal (“veil”). Possibly with influence from Proto-Brythonic *huɨl (compare Welsh hwyl (“sail”)). Etymology templates: {{der|kw|la|velum|t=veil, cloth}} Latin velum (“veil, cloth”), {{cog|sga|fíal|id=veil|t=veil}} Old Irish fíal (“veil”), {{noncog|cel-bry-pro|*huɨl}} Proto-Brythonic *huɨl, {{noncog|cy|hwyl||sail}} Welsh hwyl (“sail”) Head templates: {{head|kw|noun||||{{{d2}}}|plural|golyow||||||cat2=|g=m|head=}} gool m (plural golyow), {{kw-noun|m|golyow}} gool m (plural golyow)
  1. sail, veil Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-gool-kw-noun-jDwr9ppu Categories (other): Cornish entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Cornish entries with incorrect language header: 34 24 42 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 34 33 33 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 33 32 35
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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Download raw JSONL data for gool meaning in Cornish (4.8kB)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Cornish dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-02-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (f492ef9 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.