doel

Meaning

Frequency

A2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/dul/
Etymology

From Middle Dutch doel, doele (“ditch that separated two fields”), from Old Dutch *duola, from Proto-Germanic *dōlijǭ, *dōlijō (“dale, valley”). Related to dal (“dale, valley”). Likely, the initial meaning was "ditch, pit" which shifted to "pile of earth" to "pile of earth used as target in a shooting range" to "shooting target" to "goal".

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