gal
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[edit] English
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[edit] Etymology 1
From gallon.
[edit] Noun
gal (plural gal or gals)
- A gallon.
[edit] Etymology 2
Representing a nonstandard pronunciation of girl.
[edit] Noun
gal (plural gals)
- (colloquial, dated) An adolescent girl or young woman.
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- See also Wikisaurus:girl
[edit] Etymology 3
Shortened from galileo
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- A galileo.
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From Dutch see below
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gal
- The bodily fluid bile
[edit] Dutch
[edit] Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɑl
[edit] Noun
gal
- The bodily fluid bile
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[edit] Irish
[edit] Etymology
From Old Irish gal, from Proto-Celtic *galā (“ability”) (compare Welsh gallu (“be able”)).
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[edit] Noun
gal f. and m.
- warlike ardor
- valor, fury
- vapor, steam
- boiling heat
- puff, whiff (of smoke, hot air)
- fit, bout, turn
- demand
[edit] Declension
- Second declension
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[edit] Mutation
| Irish mutation | |||
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| gal | ghal | ngal | |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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[edit] Norwegian
[edit] Etymology
From Old Norse galinn, from gala (“sing bewitching songs, in actuality bewitched by magical singing”)
[edit] Adjective
gal (masculine gal; feminine gal; neuter galt; plural gale; comparative galere; superlative galest)
- insane; crazy; out of one's mind
- with a very strong interest in (love, the need for speed, etc.)
- incorrect; erroneous
- unfortunate
- wrong; illegal; morally reproachable
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- (insane; crazy): stormannsgal
- (with a very strong interest in): bilgal, fartsgal, guttegal, jentegal, sexgal
- (phrases): bære galt av sted, det er aldri så galt at det ikke er godt for noe, gå galt, riv ruskende gal, vill og gal
[edit] Noun
gal m. (definite singular galen; indefinite plural galer; definite plural galene)
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[edit] Verb
gal
- Imperative of gale
[edit] References
- “gal” in The Bokmål Dictionary / The Nynorsk Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.
[edit] Occitan
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From Latin gallus.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: [ɡal]
[edit] Noun
gal m. (plural gals)
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[edit] Old English
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From Proto-Germanic, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ghoilos (“frothing, tempestuous, wanton”). Cognate with Old Saxon gēl, Dutch geil (“salacious, lustful”), Old High German geil (German geil (“lustful”)), Old Norse geiligr (“beautiful”). The Indo-European root may also be the source of Lithuanian gailùs (“sharp, biting”), Russian зело (“very”).
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɡɑːl/
[edit] Adjective
gāl (comparative gālra, superlative gālost)
- wanton, lustful; wicked
- And se Iouis wearð swa swyðe gal þæt he on his agenre swyster gewifode. And Jove became so depraved that he married his own sister. (Wulfstan, De Falsis Deis)
[edit] Declension
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| m | n | f | m | n | f | m | n | f | |||||
| nominative | gāla | gāle | gāle | gālan | nom. | gāl | gāle | gāl | gāla, -e | ||||
| accusative | gālan | gāle | gālan | acc. | gālne | gāl | gāle | gāle | gāl | gāla, -e | |||
| genitive | gālan | gālra, gālena | gen. | gāles | gāles | gālre | gālra | ||||||
| dative | gālan | gālum | dat. | gālum | gālum | gālre | gālum | ||||||
| instrumental | gāle | ||||||||||||
[edit] Old French
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gal m. (oblique plural gals, nominative singular gals, nominative plural gal)
- A rock
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[edit] References
- Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition
[edit] Polish
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[edit] Etymology 1
From Latin
[edit] Noun
gal m.
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| Singular only | |
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| Nominative | gal |
| Genitive | galu |
| Dative | galowi |
| Accusative | gal |
| Instrumental | galem |
| Locative | galu |
| Vocative | galu |
[edit] Etymology 2
Named in honour of Galileo Galilei
[edit] Noun
gal m.
- A galileo
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[edit] Etymology 3
see gala
[edit] Noun
gal
- genitive plural of gala
[edit] Rohingya
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gal
- A mouth
[edit] Romanian
[edit] Etymology 1
From Latin Gallus.
[edit] Noun
- a Gaul
[edit] Etymology 2
From French gal.
[edit] Noun
- (physics) unit of measurement of acceleration, equal to 1 centimeter per second squared
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[edit] Scottish Gaelic
[edit] Noun
- Verbal noun of gail.
[edit] Serbo-Croatian
[edit] Alternative forms
[edit] Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *galъ.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /gâ:l/
- Hyphenation: gal
[edit] Adjective
gȃl (Cyrillic spelling га̑л)
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[edit] Verb
gal
- English nouns
- English colloquialisms
- English dated terms
- Afrikaans terms derived from Dutch
- Afrikaans nouns
- Dutch nouns
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Irish nouns
- ga:Water
- Norwegian terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian adjectives
- Norwegian nouns
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- Occitan terms derived from Latin
- Occitan nouns
- Occitan countable nouns
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old English adjectives
- Old French nouns
- Old French masculine nouns
- Polish terms derived from Latin
- Polish nouns
- Polish masculine nouns
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- pl:Chemical elements
- pl:Units of measure
- Polish terms with multiple etymologies
- Rohingya nouns
- Romanian terms derived from Latin
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- Romanian terms derived from French
- en:Physics
- Scottish Gaelic nouns
- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Serbo-Croatian adjectives
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