gals

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See also: GALS

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ɡælz/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ælz

Noun[edit]

gals

  1. plural of gal

Anagrams[edit]

Catalan[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

gals

  1. masculine plural of gal

Noun[edit]

gals

  1. plural of gal

Latvian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Possibly from Proto-Balto-Slavic *galas, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (ablauted to *gʷol-).

Cognates: Lithuanian gãlas (id.), Old Prussian gallan (acc.), golis (death), Old Norse kveld (evening, end of the day), etc.

Semantic development:

  1. "to stab" > "to kill" > "death", from here the verbs galēt (to slay), galināt, nogalināt (to kill), the same development in Proto-West Germanic *kwalm also from *gʷol-
  2. "to stab" > "a sharp point, tip, end."[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

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Noun[edit]

gals m (1st declension)

  1. tip, end
  2. (figuratively) demise, death
    darīt sev galuto kill oneself

Declension[edit]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “gals”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

Occitan[edit]

Noun[edit]

gals

  1. plural of gal

Old French[edit]

Noun[edit]

gals m

  1. inflection of gal:
    1. oblique plural
    2. nominative singular