gelee

See also: Gelee, gelée, and gélée

English

Etymology 1

From the French gelée. Doublet of jelly.

Alternative forms

• gelée

Noun

gelee (plural gelees)

1. Any gelled suspension made for culinary purposes.

Translations

any gelled suspension made for culinary purposes

• Czech: želé (cs) n
• Finnish: hyytelö (fi), hyydyke
• German: Gelee (de) n
• Turkish: jöle (tr), pelte (tr)

Etymology 2

From the Yoruba word gele for a woman's headwrap.

Alternative forms

• gele

Noun

gelee (plural gelees)

1. A traditional form of West African headwrap worn by women.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣəˈleː/
• Hyphenation: ge‧lee
• Rhymes: -eː

Adverb

gelee

1. Apocopic form of geleden

Middle English

Noun

gelee

1. Alternative form of gele

Old French

Alternative forms

• gelede
• jallee, jaleie, jalee
• gelé, geley, geleye, giellee

Etymology

From Early Medieval Latin gelāta, derived from Latin gelāre. By surface analysis, geler +‎ -ee. Cognate with Old Galician-Portuguese geada.

Pronunciation

• (archaic) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒəˈleːðə/
• (classical) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒəˈleːə/, /d͡ʒa-/

Noun

gelee oblique singular, f (oblique plural gelees, nominative singular gelee, nominative plural gelees)

1. cold spell; period of coldness

Descendants

• Bourguignon: jailée, gellée
• Champenois: geulée
• Franc-Comtois: dgeolaie
• French: gelée
• Lorrain: djalâie, djalauïe
• Walloon: djalêye
• → Middle English: gele, jelyf, gelly, gelye, gelle, gelee, gely
  • English: jelly
  • Scots: jeely

References

• gelee on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “gĕlāre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 86