cawl

Meaning

Noun

• A traditional Welsh soup, typically made with beef, lamb, or salted bacon with carrot, leeks, potatoes, swedes, and other seasonal vegetables.
• Alternate spelling of caul

Origin

• Borrowed from Welsh cawl, itself borrowed from Latin caulis, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂wl̥, *keh₂ulós, or *kowos. The English word is a caulis, cole, and kale.
• A variant of caul.