Where does “yawl” come from?

Yawl comes from Middle Low German jolle, a small sailing vessel.

yawl (English): A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six...

Definitions

  1. A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six...

Ancestry of “yawl”, step by step

yawl traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Middle Low German jolle

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Low Germanjolledinghy

via Norwegian jolle

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Norwegianjolle—

Words derived from “yawl”

Every word from Middle Low German jolle →