gala
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French gala or Italian gala.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
gala (not comparable)
Translations[edit]
Noun[edit]
gala (plural galas)
- (uncountable) Pomp, show, or festivity.
- (countable) A showy and festive party.
Translations[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Faroese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse gala.
Verb[edit]
gala
- to crow (of a chicken)
Conjugation[edit]
Icelandic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse gala, from Proto-Germanic *galaną.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
gala weak verb (third person singular past indicative galaði, supine galað)
gala strong verb (third person singular past indicative gól, third person plural past indicative gólum, supine galið)
- (intransitive, of a rooster) to crow
- (intransitive) to cry, to scream
Conjugation[edit]
Originally a strong verb, but now most usually weak; the strong conjugation is mostly archaic or poetic, and is especially rare in the present tense.
| infinitive (nafnháttur) |
að gala | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| supine (sagnbót) |
galað | ||||
| present participle (lýsingarháttur nútíðar) |
galandi | ||||
| indicative (framsöguháttur) |
subjunctive (viðtengingarháttur) |
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| present (nútíð) |
ég gala | við gölum | present (nútíð) |
ég gali | við gölum |
| þú galar | þið galið | þú galir | þið galið | ||
| hann, hún, það galar | þeir, þær, þau gala | hann, hún, það gali | þeir, þær, þau gali | ||
| past (þátíð) |
ég galaði | við göluðum | past (þátíð) |
ég galaði | við göluðum |
| þú galaðir | þið göluðuð | þú galaðir | þið göluðuð | ||
| hann, hún, það galaði | þeir, þær, þau göluðu | hann, hún, það galaði | þeir, þær, þau göluðu | ||
| imperative (boðháttur) |
gala (þú) | galið (þið) | |||
| Forms with appended personal pronoun | |||||
| galaðu | galiði * | ||||
| * Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred. | |||||
See also[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
- (scream): orga
Irish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA: [ˈɡal̪ˠə]
Noun[edit]
gala
- nominative plural of gal
Mutation[edit]
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| gala | ghala | ngala |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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Italian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gala f (plural gale)
Noun[edit]
gala m (invariable)
Anagrams[edit]
Old Norse[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *galaną, whence also Old English galan, Old Saxon galan, Old High German galan. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰol-, *gʰel- (“to shout, charm away”).
Verb[edit]
gala
Descendants[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Adjective[edit]
gala f (masculine galo, feminine plural galas, masculine plural galos)
- feminine form of galo
Swedish[edit]
Noun[edit]
gala c
Declension[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Verb[edit]
gala
- to crow; to make a sound characteristic of a rooster
- förrän hanen har galit ... Och i detsamma gol hanen ... Förrän hanen gal
- before the cock crow ... And immediately the cock crew ... Before the cock crow (Matthew 26:34, 74, 75)
- förrän hanen har galit ... Och i detsamma gol hanen ... Förrän hanen gal
Conjugation[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
- English terms derived from French
- English terms derived from Italian
- English adjectives
- English uncomparable adjectives
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- Faroese terms derived from Old Norse
- Faroese verbs
- Icelandic terms derived from Old Norse
- Icelandic terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Icelandic weak verbs
- Icelandic verbs
- Icelandic strong verbs
- Irish noun forms
- Italian nouns
- Italian nouns with irregular gender
- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Norse verbs
- Spanish adjective forms
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish verbs
- Swedish class 6 strong verbs