wool

Significado (Inglés)

1. The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
2. A cloth or yarn made from such hair.
3. Anything with a fibrous texture like that of sheep's wool.
4. A fine fiber obtained from the leaves of certain trees, such as firs and pines.
5. (obsolete) Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
6. Yarn, including that made from synthetic fibers.
7. A woolly back; a resident of a satellite town outside Liverpool, such as St Helens or Warrington. See also Yonner.
8. (slang) A marijuana cigarette or cigar laced with crack cocaine.

Conceptos

lana

vellón

lanar

ovillo

lana de oveja

lanosidad

pelusa

pelos de animal

vello

vello de animal

filatura di lana

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/wʊl/

Etimología (Inglés)

From Middle English wolle, from Old English wull, from Proto-West Germanic *wullu, from Proto-Germanic *wullō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Wulle, German Low German Wull, Dutch wol, German Wolle, Norwegian ull; also Welsh gwlân, Latin lāna, Lithuanian vìlna, Russian во́лос (vólos), Slovak vlna, Bulgarian влас (vlas), Albanian lesh (“wool, hair, fleece”). Doublet of lana.
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).

Oraciones

He paid for the wool and asked the shepherd to come back the following year .

Pagó por la lana y le pidió al pastor que regresara al año siguiente.

During the medieval period it became a centre for the wool trade .

Durante el período medieval se convirtió en un centro para el comercio de lana.