Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to well
Participle: welled
Gerund: welling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | well |
| you | well |
| he;she;it | wells |
| we | well |
| you | well |
| they | well |
Perfect
| I | have welled |
| you | have welled |
| he;she;it | has welled |
| we | have welled |
| you | have welled |
| they | have welled |
Past
| I | welled |
| you | welled |
| he;she;it | welled |
| we | welled |
| you | welled |
| they | welled |
Pluperfect
| I | had welled |
| you | had welled |
| he;she;it | had welled |
| we | had welled |
| you | had welled |
| they | had welled |
Future
| I | will well |
| you | will well |
| he;she;it | will well |
| we | will well |
| you | will well |
| they | will well |
Future Perfect
| I | will have welled |
| you | will have welled |
| he;she;it | will have welled |
| we | will have welled |
| you | will have welled |
| they | will have welled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | well |
| you | well |
| he;she;it | well |
| we | well |
| you | well |
| they | well |
Perfect
| I | have welled |
| you | have welled |
| he;she;it | have welled |
| we | have welled |
| you | have welled |
| they | have welled |
Imperfect
| I | welled |
| you | welled |
| he;she;it | welled |
| we | welled |
| you | welled |
| they | welled |
Pluperfect
| I | had welled |
| you | had welled |
| he;she;it | had welled |
| we | had welled |
| you | had welled |
| they | had welled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would well |
| you | would well |
| he;she;it | would well |
| we | would well |
| you | would well |
| they | would well |
Perfect
| I | would have welled |
| you | would have welled |
| he;she;it | would have welled |
| we | would have welled |
| you | would have welled |
| they | would have welled |
Imperative
| you | well |
| we | Let's well |
| you | well |
Verbs conjugated like 'well'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'well'
bell,
cell,
dwell,
fell,
hell,
jell,
mell,
pell,
sell,
swell,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "in a satisfactory manner," O.E.
wel, common Gmc. (cf. O.S.
wela, O.N.
vel, O.Fris.
wel, Du.
wel, O.H.G.
wela, Ger.
wohl, Goth.
waila "well"), from PIE
*wel-, *wol- (cf. Skt.
prati varam "at will," O.C.S.
vole "well," Welsh
gwell "better," L.
velle "to wish, will," O.E.
willan "to wish;" see will (v.)). Also used as an interjection and an expression of surprise in O.E.
Well-to-do "prosperous" is recorded from 1825.
2. From Middle English wellen, from a merger of Old English weallan (intransitive) and wiellan (transitive), both meaning “to boil.” Further from Proto-Germanic *wallaną and *wallijaną. Doublet of wall.
3. Cognate with German wallen (“boil, seethe”), Danish vælde (“gush”), Norwegian Nynorsk vella and outside Germanic, with Albanian valë (“hot, boiling”). See: Middle English '
wellen', Old English '
weallan', Proto-Germanic '
*wallaną', German, old spelling '
wallen', Danish '
vælde', Norwegian, nynorsk '
vella'.
Verbs referencing "well"
Norwegian, nynorsk
vella, German, old spelling
wallen.
Sample Sentences
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[...] It is built upon a height, commanding the harbour. When I paused for a moment at the door, and marked how fresh and free the whole scene was—what sparkling bubbles glanced upon the waves, and welled up every moment to the surface, as though the world below, like that above, were radiant with the bright day, and gushing over in its fulness of light: when I gazed from sail to sail away upon a [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)