"wollen" meaning in Middle English

See wollen in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈwulən/
Etymology: From Old English wyllen, with influence from wolle, from Proto-Germanic *wullīnaz; thus equalling wolle + -en (“made of”). Etymology templates: {{root|enm|ine-pro|*h₂welh₁-|id=wool}}, {{inh|enm|ang|wyllen}} Old English wyllen, {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*wullīnaz}} Proto-Germanic *wullīnaz, {{af|enm|wolle|-en|id2=made of|t2=made of}} wolle + -en (“made of”) Head templates: {{head|enm|adjective||{{{1}}}||{{{2}}}||{{{3}}}|head=}} wollen, {{enm-adj}} wollen Forms: wollene [alternative], wolleyn [alternative], wollyn [alternative], wollun [alternative], wolland [alternative], wolen [alternative], wolyn [alternative], woullen [alternative], wullen [alternative], wullun [alternative], willene [alternative], wolnen [alternative], wullin [alternative]
  1. Made of wool fibers or fabric spun therefrom.
    Sense id: en-wollen-enm-adj-YMRXs5po Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English terms suffixed with -en (made of), Pages with entries Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 3 1 6 3 7 7 3 15 24 20 11 Disambiguation of Middle English terms suffixed with -en (made of): 4 1 5 3 5 5 2 12 39 16 8 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 31 0 2 2 2 2 1 2 25 20 11

Noun

IPA: /ˈwulən/
Etymology: From Old English wyllen, with influence from wolle, from Proto-Germanic *wullīnaz; thus equalling wolle + -en (“made of”). Etymology templates: {{root|enm|ine-pro|*h₂welh₁-|id=wool}}, {{inh|enm|ang|wyllen}} Old English wyllen, {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*wullīnaz}} Proto-Germanic *wullīnaz, {{af|enm|wolle|-en|id2=made of|t2=made of}} wolle + -en (“made of”) Head templates: {{head|enm|nouns|g=|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} wollen, {{enm-noun|-}} wollen (uncountable) Forms: wollene [alternative], wolleyn [alternative], wollyn [alternative], wollun [alternative], wolland [alternative], wolen [alternative], wolyn [alternative], woullen [alternative], wullen [alternative], wullun [alternative], willene [alternative], wolnen [alternative], wullin [alternative]
  1. Woollen fabric; fabric made out of woollen thread. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-wollen-enm-noun-1GjjY56D Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with entries, Fabrics Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 3 1 6 3 7 7 3 15 24 20 11 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 31 0 2 2 2 2 1 2 25 20 11 Disambiguation of Fabrics: 35 46 19
  2. Woollen clothing; woolwear or woolens. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-wollen-enm-noun-wCR2Oklc Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with entries, Clothing Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 3 1 6 3 7 7 3 15 24 20 11 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 31 0 2 2 2 2 1 2 25 20 11 Disambiguation of Clothing: 8 11 80

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (074e7de and f1c2b61). 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.