kühl

🆒
Meaning

  1. cool (of temperature)
  2. calm, restrained, passionless
  3. cool, frigid (especially of the emotions)

Frequency

C1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kyːl/
Etymology

From Middle High German küele, Old High German kuoli, from Proto-West Germanic *kōl(ī), from Proto-Germanic *kōluz, *kōlaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gel-. Cognate with Dutch koel, English cool. Doublet of cool.

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