fuayle

Middle English

Alternative forms

• fewell, fuell
• fewaile, fewaille, fewall, fewel, ffuell, fowell, fuel (Late Middle English)
• feoile (AB language); fuelle, fwell (Catholicon Anglicum); ffewayle, fowayle (Promptorium Parvulorum)
• feual, feuale, fewale, fewalle, fuayl, fwaill (Early Scots)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French feuaille, fouaille.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fiu̯ˈæi̯l(ə)/, /ˈfiu̯ɛl/
• IPA^(key): /fuːˈæi̯l(ə)/, /ˈfuːɛl/ (rare, from fouaille)

Noun

fuayle (uncountable)

1. Fuel; items to be burnt.

Descendants

• English: fuel
  • → French: fioul, fuel
• Middle Scots: fewaill, fewall, fewell
  • Scots: fuel

References

• “feuē̆l, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “fewale, fewall, fewel(l, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.