פֿויל
'lazy'

ETYMOLOGY

{The Yiddish word comes from MHG vûl (not voul). How new is the meaning 'lazy'?}
Got. fūls 'foul, putrid', ON fúll 'foul, stinking; mean', OE fūl 'foul, nasty', English foul, OS fulitha 'filth', Dutch vuil 'dirty', OHG fūl 'rotten, decayed, MHG vûl, voul, NHG faul 'putrid; lazy'; from PGmc ✱fūla- 'filthy, foul'; from PIE ✱púH-lo-; a lo-stem derived from the PIE root ✱puH- (or ✱pū- 'to rot, go bad'). Kluge/Seebold suggest that the root may come from a expression of disgust like NHG pfui (See פֿו! פֿע! פֿוי! פֿי); EWA concurs.
Related: Lithuanian pū́liai 'pus', piaulaĩ 'mold', pū́ti 'to rot', Sanskrit pū́yati 'rots, stinks', Latin pūs 'pus'.
{EWA 3: 615; Kluge/Seebold 2011: 280; Kroonen 2013: 158}
Vowel 44, Proto-Yiddish ✱ɔu

WESTERN

E fauler שליח is e halber נביא.

Oyberland (West Transcarpathian)

faul {WTCP, Budapest, Hutterer 1965: 130}

CENTRAL

a folər epl אַ פֿוילער עפּל {POLAND, Warsaw, 52211}

HASIDIC

AMERICA

fɔwl
ˈfɔwlə פֿוילע

EUROPE

fɔwl {Vienna, Eidel Malowicki}