coal – English noun declension

English noun forms of coal

Noun: coal
Singularcoal
Pluralcoals

Sample Sentences

  • The coal in this region was prized by ironmasters in centuries past, who mined it in the spots where the drainage methods of the day permitted.
  • Coal-eaters they may have been, but a more willing or harder working Atlantic engine was never designed. [1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, pages 3, 5:]
  • Put some coal on the fire.
  • Order some coal from the coalyard.
  • Put some coals on the fire.
  • hot coals
  • glowing coals
  • Just as the campfire died down to just coals, with no flames to burn the marshmallows, someone dumped a whole load of wood on, so I gave up and went to bed.
  • I'm so sick of seeing this coal online.

Etymology

1. From Middle English col, from Old English col, from Proto-West Germanic *kol, from Proto-Germanic *kulą (“coal”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵwelH- (“to burn, shine”).
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with North Frisian kööl (“coal”), Saterland Frisian Koole (“coal”), West Frisian koal (“coal”), Cimbrian kholl (“coal”), Dutch kool (“coal; carbon”), German Kohle (“coal”), Limburgish Kǫe̩l (“coal”), Luxembourgish Kuel (“coal”), Vilamovian köła (“coal”), Yiddish קויל (koyl, “coal”), Danish kul (“coal”), Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish kol (“coal; carbon”), Jamtish kuł (“coal; carbon”), Norwegian Bokmål kol, kull (“coal”). Compare Irish and Scottish Gaelic gual (“coal”), Manx geayl (“coal”), Lithuanian žvi̇̀lti (“to glow, twinkle”), Persian زکال (zakâl), زکار (zekâr), زغال (zoġâl, “coal”), Tocharian B śoliye (“hearth”), Sanskrit ज्वल् (jval, “to burn, glow”), all from the same root. See: Middle English Nouns 'col', Old English Nouns 'col', Dutch Nouns 'kool', German Nouns 'Kohle', Danish Nouns 'kul', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'kol'.

Verbs referencing "coal"

German Nouns Kohle, Danish Nouns kul.