sawl

Old English

Noun

sāwl f

  1. alternative form of sāwol

Tashelhit

Etymology

Morphologically from s- (“causative marker”) + awal (“speech”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sawl/

Verb

sawl (intensive aorist sawal, verbal noun awal, Tifinagh spelling ⵙⴰⵡⵍ, Arabic spelling ساول)

  1. to speak, to talk
    is a sawaln taɛrabt nġd tašlḥiyt. ― do they speak Arabic or Tashelhit.
  • amawal (“dictionary”)
  • awal (“speech”)
  • msiwil (“to talk one another”)

References

  • Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 3 m—š (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/3) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1935b

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sau̯l/

Pronoun

sawl

  1. (interrogative) how many?

Usage notes

  • Sawl means "how many" and is followed by the singular form of a countable noun.
Sawl cath? ― How many cats?
Sawl coffi? ― How many coffees?
  • Faint, on the other hand, corresponds to both English "how many", followed by o and the plural form of a countable noun, and to "how much", followed o and an uncountable noun.
Faint o gathod? ― How many cats?
Faint o goffi? ― How much coffee?

Determiner

sawl

  1. several

Usage notes

  • Once again, sawl is followed by the singular form of a countable noun.
Mae gen i sawl cath. ― I have several cats.

Derived terms

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