Noun: vel
Gender: Neuter
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Haar velletje zat tussen de deur. (Her skin was caught in the door.)
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Tientallen vellen van beren en wolven lagen opeengestapeld. (Tens of pelts of bears and wolves had been stacked on each other.)
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Het glas van een gloeilamp is niet veel dikker dan een vel papier (The glass of a lightbulb is not much thicker than a sheet of paper.)
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Deze saus moet niet te lang koken, anders ontstaan er vellen. (This sauce shouldn't boil for too long or else membranes will appear.)
Nouns inflected like vel
internettrol,
grenstol,
zevende naamval,
diefstal,
mottenbal,
paasstol,
slachtofferrol,
Olympiajol,
boksbal,
boogbal,
boekrol,
spoedgeval,
bouwval,
niemendal,
bagatel,
grote pimpernel,
zoutwaterkrokodil,
sneeuwval,
sneeuwbol,
sneeuwbal, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle Dutch vel, from Old Dutch *fel, from Proto-West Germanic *fell, from Proto-Germanic *fellą, from Proto-Indo-European *pello-, *pelno-, whence Latin pellis, Greek πέλλα; cognate with German Fell. See: German Nouns '
Fell'.
Verbs referencing "vel"
English Nouns
film, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
fille.
Translations