wool – English noun declension

English noun forms of wool

Noun: wool
Singularwool
Pluralwools

Sample Sentences

  • The sheep were caught and plucked, because shears had not yet been invented to cut the wool from the sheep's back. [2006, Nigel Guy Wilson, Ancient Greece, page 692:]
  • Spielvogel said wet cleaning also has limitations; while it is fine for cottons and fabrics worn in warm climates, he said, it can damage heavy wools or structured clothes like suit jackets. [2009 January 12, Mireya Navarro, “It May Market Organic Alternatives, but Is Your Cleaner Really Greener?”, in New York Times:]
  • The groundsels have leaves covered in wool for insulation[… [1975, Anthony Julian Huxley, Plant and Planet, page 223:]
  • wool of bat and tongue of dog [c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:]
  • The object of your affection is the treetop connection / Where basically you love to smoke your wools [1991 March 29, “Slow Down” (0:25 from the start), in One for All, performed by Brand Nubian:]
  • He rocked Caesar's chains, he pushed Caesar's Range / Smokin' mad wools all day, with Caesar's change [2003 June 24, “Sabotage” (0:40 from the start), in The Ownerz, performed by Gang Starr:]
  • Lopez said the shooter's name was Lou, known on the street as Wool Lou, because he sold "wools," which were cigarettes rolled up with crack cocaine. [2012, Chris Berdik, Mind Over Mind: The Surprising Power of Expectations, New York, N.Y.: Current, →ISBN, page 149:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English wolle, from Old English wull, from Proto-West Germanic *wullu, from Proto-Germanic *wullō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂.
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Wulle, German Low German Wull, Dutch wol, German Wolle, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish ull, Danish uld; also Welsh gwlân, Latin lāna, Lithuanian vi̇̀lna, Russian во́лос (vólos), Slovak vlna, Bulgarian влас (vlas), Albanian lesh (“wool, hair, fleece”). Doublet of lana.
4. The vowel development u → o → oo is purely graphical. Modern English generally avoids the string ⟨wu⟩ in favour of ⟨wo⟩, and the resulting woll was then altered to wool (as supposedly better representing the pronunciation). See: Middle English Nouns 'wolle', Old English Nouns 'wull', Dutch Nouns 'wol', German Nouns 'Wolle', Danish Nouns 'uld', Latin Nouns 'lāna', Slovak Nouns 'vlna', Bulgarian Nouns 'влас'.

Verbs referencing "wool"

Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns ull, Old Norse Nouns ull, Finnish Nouns villa, Latin Nouns lana, Polish Nouns wełna, Latvian Nouns vilna, Ancient Greek Nouns λῆνος, Danish Nouns uld.