הויל
'bare, naked'

ETYMOLOGY

Beider suggests that הויל is from Czech holý, and that the root vowel was lengthened in an open syllable to produce protovowel O₂₃ (either in Y or in a German dialect from which Y borrowed the word).
{Beider 2015: 429, 454}
{The vowel had to be long in order to diphthongize (which suggests NHG hohl), but it could just as easily have been from Old Czech holý 'bare' as from MHG hol 'hollow'. The meaning corresponds better to the former - but that might be later influence. Perhaps a confluence of both forms? And influence by similar-sounding Polish goły (see גאָל).}
Ukrainian Polish goły; NHG hohl (see הייל)
MHG hol; OHG hol; cf. ON holr; OE hol; OS hol; from PGmc ✱hula- 'hollow, empty'; from PIE ✱ḱuH-ló-; cf. Greek κοῖλος 'hollow'; Latin cavus 'hollow'; Sanskrit śūnyá- 'empty'.

Polish goły 'bald, bare, empty'; Ukrainian го́лий; Belarusian го́лы; Russian го́лый

CENTRAL

Unterland (East Transcarpathian)

er ɛ́st a hojlʲn kɔp ער עסט אַ הוילן קאָפּ 'he eats bareheaded' {ETCP, Nyzhnya Apsha, 48233}
- hojlʲ vasər הויל וואַסער

hojʎ vasɛ הויל וואַסער {POLAND, Wolbrom, 50196}

hojlə {POLAND, Warsaw, 52211}

NORTHEASTERN

Lithuania

mitn höjlm kop מיטן הוילן קאָפּ {LITHUANIA, Vilnius, 54257}

SOUTHEASTERN

Ech red ništ fin kan hoiln Fas arous. איך רעד נישט פֿון קיין הוילן פֿאַס אַרויס 'Ich rede nicht ohne Grund, keine leeren Worte. Nicht aus einem leeren, hohlen Hafen, Faß reden. Gr. 4², 122f. meint: "vielleicht von Gaunerkunststückchen, die im 15. u. 16. Jahrh. im Schwange waren, eine Stimme aus einem leeren Topfe erschallen zu lassen", also eine Art Bauchreden.' {EAST GALICIA, Brody, Landau 1923, №25}

ɩn ojʎn kop אין הוילן קאָפּ {ROMANIA, Brăila, 45273}