An archaic or dialectal word meaning grief, sorrow, or distress, particularly in Scottish and Northern English.
From Old English 'dōl,' related to Gothic 'duls' and Old Norse 'dúll,' all meaning sorrow or mourning; the word has Germanic roots and was common in Middle English poetry.
Old English had rich vocabulary for sadness—'dool' is one of many lost words that modern English no longer uses, replaced by simpler terms like 'grief,' showing how languages gradually shed older emotional vocabulary.
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