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gellen

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German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German gëllen, from Old High German gellan, from Proto-Germanic *gellaną (to yell). Cognate with English yell, Dutch gillen.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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gellen (weak, third-person singular present gellt, past tense gellte, past participle gegellt, auxiliary haben) (now rare outside the present participle gellend)

  1. (intransitive) to emit a loud, clear and strident sound
    Die gegnerische Mannschaft wurde mit einem gellenden Pfeifkonzert empfangen.
    The opposing team was welcomed with a shrill chorus of whistles.
  2. (intransitive, of a place or one’s ears) to be shaken by such a sound, to reverberate with it

Conjugation

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Further reading

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  • gellen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache[1] (in German)
  • 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

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Etymology

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From Middle Low German gelden, from Old Saxon geldan.

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

Verb

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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

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Conjugation of gellen (class 3 strong verb)
infinitive gellen
present preterite
1st person singular gell gull
2nd person singular gells(t) gulls(t)
3rd person singular gell(t) gull
plural gellt, gellen gullen
imperative
singular gell
plural gellt
present past
participle gellen (e)gullen, gegullen

Note: This conjugation is one of many.
Neither its grammar nor spelling apply to all dialects.

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Middle Dutch

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Etymology

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

Verb

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gellen

  1. to yell, scream

Inflection

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This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

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  • Dutch: gillen

Further reading

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