gellen

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See also: gëllen

German

Etymology

From Middle High German gëllen, from Old High German gellan, from Proto-Germanic *gellaną (to yell). More at yell.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɛlən/
  • Audio:(file)

Verb

gellen (weak, third-person singular present gellt, past tense gellte, past participle gegellt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (intransitive) to emit a clear, penetrating sound
  2. (intransitive) to be shaken by a sound; reverberate

Conjugation

Further reading

  • gellen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • gellen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • Vollständiges Deutsches Wörter-Buch vel Lexicon germanico-latinum cum praefationibus et autoris et Iohannis Ulrici König, Breßlau, 1734: "Gegollen (act. ich habe) praes. ich gelle, sonum edo, imperf. ich gall (& usus probat) gahl. Es gillt mir in den Ohren, aurium tinnitum percipio."
  • Joh. Siegm. Val. Popowitsch, Die nothwendigsten Anfangsgründe der Teutschen Sprachkunst zum Gebrauche der Österreichischen Schulen auf allerhöchsten Befehl ausgefertiget & Anfängsgründe der Teutschen Sprachkunst zum Gebrauche der Österreichischen Schulen herausgegeben, Wienn, 1754: "Gellen sonum edere, gieng ehedessen so: du gillst, es gillt, es gall, es gälle, es hat gegollen"

Low German

Etymology

From Middle Low German gelden, from Old Saxon geldan.

Compare Dutch gelden, English yield, West Frisian jilde, German gelten, Icelandic gjalda.

Verb

gellen (past singular gull, past participle gullen, auxiliary verb hebben)

  1. (intransitive) to be valid; to count; to hold true
  2. (intransitive) to be effective; to be in force
  3. (transitive) to be worth
  4. (intransitive, with an oblique personal object) to be meant for
  5. (intransitive, with “as” or “för) to be regarded (as something); to pass (for something)
  6. (impersonal) to be necessary
  7. (intransitive, with “laten) to pass; to go; (Like in standard German, often translated with laten as a unit into allow, endure, permit, accept, etc.)
    Dat will ik utnahmwies mal gellen laten.I will let that pass [allow, concede, endure, permit, accept that] as an exception.

Conjugation


Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *gellan, from Proto-Germanic *gellaną.

Verb

gellen

  1. to yell, scream

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Dutch: gillen

Further reading