gille

See also: Gille

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

gille

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of gillen

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish gilla; compare English child, Old English ċild. Zimmer thinks it is borrowed from Old Norse gildr (“stout, brawny, of full worth”); compare English guild, Old English gild (“payment”) (see geall), gilda (“fellow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʲiʎə/

Noun

gille m (genitive gille, plural gillean, vocative 'ille)

1. (dated) servant, follower
2. boy, lad, youth (male aged from the toddler years to about the middle twenties)
3. man, boy (as a familiar address for a male of any age)
4. (Wester Ross) unmarried man of any age, bachelor

   Antonym: duine (dialectally)

Declension

Declension of gille (class IId masculine noun)

indefinite
	singular	plural
nominative	gille	gillean
genitive	gille	ghillean
dative	gille	gillean; gillibh1
definite
	singular	plural
nominative	(an) gille	(na) gillean
genitive	(a') ghille	(nan) gillean
dative	(a') ghille	(na) gillean; gillibh1
vocative	ghille	ghillean

¹ archaic or poetic form

Synonyms

• balach
• laochan (especially in vocative)

Hyponyms

• balachan (“little boy”)
• balachan-sgoile (“schoolboy”)
• brogach (“sturdy little boy”)
• proitseach (“stripling”)

Derived terms

• gille-coise (“valet”)
• gille-comhailteachd (“best man”)
• gille-cruidh (“cowboy”)
• gille-cupa
• gille-feadaig (“dunlin”)
• gille-frithealaidh (“waiter; page”)
• gille-gach-gnothaich (“factotum”)
• gille-gnothaich (“errand boy”)
• gille-mirein (“puppet”)
• gille-mo-ghnothaich (“lively, enterprising, dependable young man”)
• gille-mùchain (“chimney sweep”)
• gille-oifis (“office boy”)
• gille-ruadh (“parr”)
• gille-tòine (“faggot, queen”)
• leanabh gille (“baby boy”)
• seana-ghille (“bachelor”)

Mutation

Mutation of gille

radical	lenition
gille	ghille

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

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse gildi.

Noun

gille n

1. feast
2. guild

Declension

Declension of gille

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	gille	gilles
	definite	gillet	gillets
plural	indefinite	gillen	gillens
	definite	gillena	gillenas

Derived terms

• gillestuga
• ålagille

See also

• skrå

Further reading

• “gille”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• gille in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)