galwes

Middle English

Alternative forms

• galwe, galowe, galewes

Etymology

From Old English ġealga, galga, from Proto-Germanic *galgô.

Noun

galwes

1. gallows

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Descendants

• Scots: galow, gallo, gallows
• English: gallow, gallows

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “galwes”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Welsh

Alternative forms

• galwais

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡalwɛs/

Verb

galwes

1. (colloquial) first-person singular preterite of galw

Mutation

Mutated forms of galwes

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
galwes	alwes	ngalwes	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.