vella

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈve.ʎə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈbe.ʎə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈve.ʎa/

vella

1. feminine singular of vell

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛʎɐ/

vella f sg

1. feminine singular of vello

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛtla/

  Rhymes: -ɛtla

From Old Norse vella, from Proto-Germanic *wallijǭ, perhaps also partly from a *wellǭ.

vella f (genitive singular vellu, nominative plural vellur)

1. boil, boiling, bubbling
2. milk that has been boiled until it curdles and forms a reddish thick substance similar to whey cheese
3. a stifling heat
4. the sound made by a whimbrel
5. chatter
6. flattery
7. weakling
8. a small portion (e.g. of coffee)
9. a minor sickness
10. (regional) slob

From Old Norse vella, from Proto-Germanic *wellaną, *wallaną.

vella (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative vall, third-person plural past indicative ullu, supine ollið)

1. to bubble, to boil, to simmer
2. to flow, to well up, to stream
3. (with preposition í) to be crawling with
4. to chatter
5. to make the sound characteristic of the whimbrel

From Old Norse vella, from Proto-Germanic *wallijaną.

vella (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative velldi, supine vellt)

1. (transitive, with accusative) to boil, cause to simmer
2. to make the sound characteristic of the whimbrel (also figuratively in vella graut, literally “boil porridge”)

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon — Íslensk orðsifjabók, (1989). Reykjavík, Orðabók Háskólans. (Available on Málið.is under the “Eldra mál” tab.)

vella

1. inflection of vellere:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• valle

• velle

From Old Norse vella. Akin to English well.

• IPA^(key): /²ʋɛlːɑ/

vella (present tense vell, past tense vall, supine volle, past participle vollen, present participle vellande, imperative vell)

1. to well, gush, flow (issue forth, as water from the earth)

• “vella” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *wallijǭ.

vella f

1. boiling heat, ebullition

• Icelandic: vella

• “vella”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From Proto-Germanic *wellaną, *wallaną (“to well up”).

vella (singular past indicative vall, plural past indicative ullu, past participle ollinn)

1. (intransitive) to be in a state of ebullition, boil
2. to well up, swarm

• “vella”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vella

1. genitive plural of vell

-vélla

1. to go and check something, to take a look at, to keep an eyeon someone/something

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

vella f (plural vellas)

1. Obsolete spelling of vela

From well.

vella

1. well
   • 1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, line 9:

     Zien, "a blaak vall, a blaak vall, Ich meigh vella knew,

     Saying "a black fall, a black fall——I might well have known,

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 129