Yule
Meaning
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- Christmastide, the Christmas season, the Twelve Days of Christmas (between December 25ᵗʰ and January 5ᵗʰ).
- A pagan wintertime holiday celebrated by Germanic peoples, particularly the Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon peoples, or a modern reconstruction of this holiday celebrated by neo-pagans.
- A surname.
Concepts
Yule
Christmas
Christmastide
Noel
Yuletide
Xmas
Christmastime
Christmas Day
Christmas season
Christmas time
Twelve Days of Christmas
yuletide
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/juːl/
Etymology
From Middle English yol, from Old English ġeōl (“Christmas, Yule”), either cognate with or from Old Norse jól, from Proto-Germanic *jehwlą. Cognate with Gothic 𐌾𐌹𐌿𐌻𐌴𐌹𐍃 (jiuleis); see also Old English ġēola and Old Norse ýlir.
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