From Middle English hole, hol, from Old English hol ("orifice, hollow place, cavity"), from Proto-West Germanic *hol, from Proto-Germanic *hulÄ… ("hollow space, cavity"), noun derivative of Proto-Germanic *hulaz ("hollow"). Related to hollow.
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