Gerald
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See also: Gérald
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French, ultimately from Frankish *gaiʀ (“spear”) + *wald (“might, power”). The name was brought to England by the Normans. It survived in Ireland, and was revived in the 19th century.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛɹəld/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛɹəld
Proper noun
[edit]Gerald (countable and uncountable, plural Geralds)
- A male given name from the Germanic languages.
- 1855, Maturin Murray Ballou, The Turkish Spies Ali Abubeker Kaled, and Zenobia Marrita Mustapha., A.R.Orton, page 150:
- Helen interrupted her sister, by asking her opinion of the how the name, Gerald Vernon, sounded.
"Oh, charmingly!" said Charlotte, and, raising herself above her sister, and reclining her splendid head upon her arm, continued she, "Why, do you know such a one?"
"I do," said Helen, "It's a pretty name, that's all," and she tried to draw her sister's attention off, […]
- 1998 Barbara Vine ( Ruth Rendell ): The Chimney Sweeper's Boy. →ISBN page 168:
- "You're saying my father's favourite names were Gerald and Candless?"
- "Not likely, is it? But Gerald must have been a favourite name with Kathleen and George Candless or they wouldn't have called their son by it?"
- A surname.
- A placename
- A village in the Rural Municipality of Spy Hill No. 152, Saskatchewan, Canada.
- A place in the United States.
- A former unincorporated community in Dale County, Alabama.
- An unincorporated community in Champaign County, Illinois.
- An unincorporated community in Tobin Township, Perry County, Indiana.
- A small city in Franklin County, Missouri.
- An unincorporated community in Henry County, Ohio.
- The former name of Ponder, a town in Texas.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- (variants): Jerald, Jerrold, Garrett
- (pet forms): Gerry, Jerry
- (female given names): Geraldine, Jerilyn
- (surnames): Fitzgerald, Giraud, Giroud, Geralds, Geraldson
Translations
[edit]male given name
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Anagrams
[edit]Albanian
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Gerald m
- a male given name
Declension
[edit]singular | ||
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indefinite | definite | |
nominative | Gerald | Geraldi |
accusative | Geraldin | |
dat./abl. | Geraldi | Geraldit |
German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Proper noun
[edit]Gerald m (proper noun, strong, genitive Geralds)
- a male given name from the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Gerald
Related terms
[edit]Categories:
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Frankish
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂welh₁- (rule)
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ɛɹəld
- Rhymes:English/ɛɹəld/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
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- English given names
- English male given names
- English male given names from Germanic languages
- English terms with quotations
- English surnames
- en:Villages in Saskatchewan, Canada
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- en:Former settlements
- en:Places in Alabama, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in Illinois, USA
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- en:Unincorporated communities in Indiana, USA
- en:Places in Indiana, USA
- en:Cities in Missouri, USA
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- en:Places in Missouri, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in Ohio, USA
- en:Places in Ohio, USA
- en:Towns in Texas, USA
- en:Towns in the United States
- en:Places in Texas, USA
- Albanian lemmas
- Albanian proper nouns
- Albanian masculine nouns
- Albanian given names
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- Albanian uncountable nouns
- German terms with audio pronunciation
- German lemmas
- German proper nouns
- German masculine nouns
- German given names
- German male given names
- German male given names from Germanic languages