pool – English noun declension

English noun forms of pool

Noun: pool
Singularpool
Pluralpools

Sample Sentences

  • the pools of Solomon
  • the Pool of London
  • […] at laſt I left them
  • I’ th’ filthy mantled poole beyond your Cell,
  • There dancing vp to th’ chins, that the fowle Lake
  • Ore-ſtunck their feet. [1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 15, column 2:]
  • A Single Life doth well with Church-men : For Charitie will hardly water the Ground, where it muſt firſt fill a Poole. [1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Marriage And Single Life. VIII.”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 37:]
  • I loved the brimming wave that swam
  • Thro’ quiet meadows round the mill,
  • The sleepy pool above the dam,
  • The pool beneath it never still,
  • The meal-sacks on the whiten’d floor,
  • The dark round of the dripping wheel,
  • The very air about the door
  • Made misty with the floating meal. [1833, Alfred Tennyson, “The Miller's Daughter”, in Poems, 5th edition, Edward Moxon, published 1848, page 86:]
  • a pool of blood
  • He walked slowly, passing through one pool of light after another, his shadow running tall across the fronts of the barber shop, the Western Auto, the video-rental shop. [1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English pool, pole, pol, from Old English pōl (“pool”), from Proto-West Germanic pōl, from Proto-Germanic *pōlaz (“pool, pond”), from Proto-Indo-European *bōlos (“bog, marsh”).
2. Cognate with Scots puil (“pool”), Saterland Frisian Pol (“pool”), West Frisian poel (“pool”), Dutch poel (“pool”), German Low German Pohl, Pool, Pul (“pool”), German Pfuhl (“quagmire, mudhole”), Danish pøl (“puddle”), Swedish pöl (“puddle, pool”), Icelandic pollur (“puddle”), Lithuanian bala (“puddle”), Latvian bala (“a muddly, treeless depression”), Russian боло́то (bolóto, “swamp, bog, marsh”).
3. For the meaning development to a supply of resources compare typologically Russian пруд пруди́ (prud prudí) (< пруд (prud)). See: Middle English Nouns 'pool', Dutch Nouns 'poel', German Nouns 'Pfuhl', Danish Nouns 'pøl', Swedish Nouns 'pöl', Icelandic Nouns 'pollur'.

Verbs referencing "pool"

Swedish Nouns pool, German Nouns Pool, Russian Nouns пул, German Nouns Pfuhl.