Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-BantuCategory:Luganda terms inherited from Proto-Bantu#WOLACategory:Luganda terms derived from Proto-Bantu#WOLA *póda (“to be cold; be quiet”).

Etymology 2

Potentially from Common BantuCategory:Luganda terms inherited from Common Bantu#WOLACategory:Luganda terms derived from Common Bantu#WOLA *pòoda (“to pay dues”).

References

• Snoxall, R. A. (1967), Luganda-English Dictionary - with an Introduction on the Tonal System, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 338
• Murphy, John D. (1972), Luganda-English Dictionary, United States: The Catholic University of America Press, →ISBN, pages 597–8
• Entry 2589 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3; Entry 7167 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3

Alternative forms

• wëla (until the mid 9th C. CE)

Etymology

With rounding of wë- > wo- (as in wohha, wollen etc.), from Proto-GermanicCategory:Old High German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#WOLACategory:Old High German terms derived from Proto-Germanic#WOLA *wela. Cognate with Old Saxon wela, Old English wel, Old Norse vel (Icelandic vel). First attested in the early 9th C., and the normal form by the late 9th C. CE.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwo.la/Category:Old High German terms with IPA pronunciation#WOLA

Adverb

wolaCategory:Old High German lemmas#WOLACategory:Old High German adverbs#WOLACategory:Old High German entries with incorrect language header#WOLACategory:Pages with entries#WOLACategory:Pages with 8 entries#WOLA

1. well

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *voľà.Category:Old Polish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#WOLACategory:Old Polish terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic#WOLACategory:Old Polish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *welh₁-#WOLACategory:Old Polish terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#WOLACategory:Old Polish terms inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic#WOLACategory:Old Polish terms derived from Proto-Slavic#WOLACategory:Old Polish terms inherited from Proto-Slavic#WOLACategory:Pages with etymology trees#WOLACategory:Old Polish entries with etymology trees#WOLACategory:Old Polish entries with etymology texts#WOLACategory:Pages using etymon with no ID#WOLA First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /vɔlʲaː/Category:Old Polish terms with IPA pronunciation#WOLA
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /vɔlʲɒ/Category:Old Polish terms with IPA pronunciation#WOLA

Noun

wola fCategory:Old Polish lemmas#WOLACategory:Old Polish nouns#WOLACategory:Old Polish entries with incorrect language header#WOLACategory:Old Polish feminine nouns#WOLACategory:Pages with entries#WOLACategory:Pages with 8 entries#WOLA

1. (attested in Lesser PolandCategory:Lesser Poland Old Polish#WOLA) will (act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition)
   • 1939 [end of the 14th century], Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors, Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki [Sankt Florian Psalter]‎^{scan transliteration, transcription}, number 29, Krakow: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego [The Ossoliński National Institute: with the benefit of the Silesian Parliament]:

     Bo gnew v rozgnewanu iego a sziwot w woli iego (vita in voluntate eius)

     [Bo gniew w rozgniewaniu jego, a żywot w woli jego (vita in voluntate eius)]

     Category:Old Polish terms with quotations#WOLACategory:Old Polish quotations with omitted translation#WOLA

2. (attested in Lesser PolandCategory:Lesser Poland Old Polish#WOLA) will (one's independent faculty of choice)
   • Beginning of the 15th century, Łukasz z Wielkiego Koźmina, Kazania gnieźnieńskie‎^{transliteration, transcription}, Krakow, page 14b:

     Tho ne gest f[s] twe voly, abicz thobe Xpc dal dludze stroue

     [To nie jest w [s]twe woli, abyć tobie Kryst dał długie zdrowie]

     Category:Old Polish terms with quotations#WOLACategory:Old Polish quotations with omitted translation#WOLA

3. (attested in Lesser PolandCategory:Lesser Poland Old Polish#WOLA) will, desire, intention
   • Beginning of the 15th century, Łukasz z Wielkiego Koźmina, Kazania gnieźnieńskie‎^{transliteration, transcription}, Krakow, page 171b:

     Ktory clouek czyni volø othcza mego, tenczy przydze do krolefstwa nebeskego

     [Ktory człowiek czyni wolą otca mego, tenci przydzie do krolewstwa niebieskiego]

     Category:Old Polish terms with quotations#WOLACategory:Old Polish quotations with omitted translation#WOLA

4. (attested in Lesser PolandCategory:Lesser Poland Old Polish#WOLA) pleasure
   • 1939 [end of the 14th century], Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors, Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki [Sankt Florian Psalter]‎^{scan transliteration, transcription}, numbers 1, 2, Krakow: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego [The Ossoliński National Institute: with the benefit of the Silesian Parliament]:

     W zacone boszem wola iego (voluntas eius)

     [W zakonie bożem wola jego (voluntas eius)]

     Category:Old Polish terms with quotations#WOLACategory:Old Polish quotations with omitted translation#WOLA

5. intent
   • 15th century, Spowiedź powszechna - Confessio generalis, number 3:

     Davam szya vynyen bogv *wszechmogocemv..., czom szgrzessyl... slą volą

     [Dawam się winien Bogu wszechmogącemu..., com zgrzeszył... złą wolą]

     Category:Old Polish terms with quotations#WOLACategory:Old Polish quotations with omitted translation#WOLA

6. (attested in Greater PolandCategory:Greater Poland Old Polish#WOLA) agreement, acceptance, allowance
   • 1974 [1413], Henryk Kowalewicz, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz, editors, Wielkopolskie roty sądowe XIV-XV wieku, Roty kaliskie‎, volume IV, number 423, Kalisz:

     Jako była wola Januszowa..., kiegdy odbiła jego braci pani Burneta

     [Iaco bila wola Januszova..., kyegdi odbila yego braczi pani Burnetha]

     Category:Old Polish terms with quotations#WOLACategory:Old Polish quotations with omitted translation#WOLA

7. (property lawCategory:zlw-opl:Property law#WOLA, attested in Greater PolandCategory:Greater Poland Old Polish#WOLA) property owner's exemption from duties for a certain time
   • 1959 [1397], Henryk Kowalewicz, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz, editors, Wielkopolskie roty sądowe XIV-XV wieku, Roty poznańskie, volume I, number 221, Poznań:

     Jaco Mikosz ne dal Woczechoui wole

     [Jako Mikosz nie dał Wociechowi wole]

     Category:Old Polish terms with quotations#WOLACategory:Old Polish quotations with omitted translation#WOLA

References

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “wola”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “wola”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Further reading

• M. Arcta Słownik Staropolski/Wola on the Polish Wikisource.Wikisource ^pl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈwo.la]Category:Pagu terms with IPA pronunciation#WOLA

Noun

wolaCategory:Pagu lemmas#WOLACategory:Pagu nouns#WOLACategory:Pagu entries with incorrect language header#WOLACategory:Pages with entries#WOLACategory:Pages with 8 entries#WOLA

1. house

Alternative forms

• wóla (Żywiec)

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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  Category:Polish terms with audio pronunciation#WOLA
• Rhymes: -ɔlaCategory:Rhymes:Polish/ɔla#WOLACategory:Rhymes:Polish/ɔla/2 syllables#WOLA
• Syllabification: wo‧la
• Homophone: WolaCategory:Polish terms with homophones#WOLA

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Polish wola.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Further reading

• “wola”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “wola”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎ (in Polish)
• Wanda Decyk-Zięba, editor (2018-2022), “wola”, in Dydaktyczny Słownik Etymologiczno-historyczny Języka Polskiego [A Didactic, Historical, Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), →ISBN
• Oskar Kolberg (1867), “wola”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 278
• Oskar Kolberg (1877), “wola”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 25
• Izydor Kopernicki (1875), “wola”, in “Spostrzeżenia nad właściwościami językowémi w mowie Górali Bieskidowych z dodatkiem słowniczka wyrazów góralskich”, in Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności (I)‎, volume 3, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 378

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈwo.la]Category:Ternate terms with IPA pronunciation#WOLA

Verb

wolaCategory:Ternate lemmas#WOLACategory:Ternate verbs#WOLACategory:Ternate entries with incorrect language header#WOLACategory:Pages with entries#WOLACategory:Pages with 8 entries#WOLA

1. (stativeCategory:Ternate stative verbs#WOLA) to be loose

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-SlavicCategory:Upper Sorbian terms inherited from Proto-Slavic#WOLACategory:Upper Sorbian terms derived from Proto-Slavic#WOLA *voľà from Proto-Balto-SlavicCategory:Upper Sorbian terms inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic#WOLACategory:Upper Sorbian terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic#WOLA *wáljāˀ.

Noun

wola fCategory:Upper Sorbian lemmas#WOLACategory:Upper Sorbian nouns#WOLACategory:Upper Sorbian entries with incorrect language header#WOLACategory:Upper Sorbian feminine nouns#WOLACategory:Pages with entries#WOLACategory:Pages with 8 entries#WOLA

1. will

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Category:Requests for etymologies in Xhosa entries#WOLA

Verb

-wola^?Category:Xhosa lemmas#WOLACategory:Xhosa verbs#WOLACategory:Requests for tone in Xhosa verb entries#WOLACategory:Xhosa entries with incorrect language header#WOLACategory:Pages with entries#WOLACategory:Pages with 8 entries#WOLA

1. (transitiveCategory:Xhosa transitive verbs#WOLA) to hug