gale
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡeɪl/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪl
- Homophone: Gail
Etymology 1
From Middle English galen, from Old English galan (“to sing, enchant, call, cry, scream; sing charms, practice incantation”), from Proto-Germanic *galaną (“to roop, sing, charm”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to shout, scream, charm away”). Cognate with Danish gale (“to crow”), Swedish gala (“to crow”), Icelandic gala (“to sing, chant, crow”), Dutch galm (“echo, sound, noise”). Related to yell.
Verb
gale (third-person singular simple present gales, present participle galing, simple past galed or gole, past participle galed or galen)
- (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To sing; charm; enchant.
- Court of Love
- Can he cry and gale.
- Court of Love
- (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To cry; groan; croak.
- (intransitive, of a person, now chiefly dialectal) To talk.
- (intransitive, of a bird, Scotland) To call.
- (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To sing; utter with musical modulations.
Etymology 2
From Middle English gale (“a wind, breeze”), probably of North Germanic origin, related to Icelandic gola (“a breeze”), Danish gal (“furious, mad”),[1] both from Old Norse gala (“to sing”).
Noun
gale (plural gales)
- (meteorology) A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through to 9 winds on the 12-step Beaufort scale.
- An outburst, especially of laughter.
- a gale of laughter
- 1972, International Association of Seed Crushers, Congress [proceedings]
- The slightest hint of smugness would have had the nation leaning over our shoulders to blow out the birthday candles with a gale of reproach and disapproval.
- (archaic) A light breeze.
- Shakespeare
- A little gale will soon disperse that cloud.
- Milton
- And winds of gentlest gale Arabian odours fanned / From their soft wings.
- Shakespeare
- (obsolete) A song or story.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Toone to this entry?)
Translations
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Verb
gale (third-person singular simple present gales, present participle galing, simple past and past participle galed)
See also
Etymology 3
From Middle English gaile, gawl, gawwyl, gaȝel, gagel, from Old English gagel, gagelle, gagille, gagolle (“gale; sweet gale”), from Proto-Germanic *gagulaz (“gale; sweet-willow”). Cognate with Scots gaul, gall (“bog-myrtle”), Dutch gagel (“wild mytle”), German Gagel (“mytle-bush”), Icelandic gaglviður (“sweet-gale; myrtle”).
Noun
gale
- A shrub, also called sweet gale or bog myrtle (Myrica gale), that grows on moors and fens.
Translations
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Etymology 4
Middle English gavel (“rent; tribute”), from Old English gafol
Noun
gale (plural gales)
References
- gale in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Awtuw
References
- Harry Feldman. A Grammar of Awtuw. (Pacific Linguistics: Series B, 94.) (1986)
Basque
French
Etymology
Variant of galle.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡal/
Audio (Paris) (file)
Further reading
- “gale” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 2
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
Verb
gale (present tense gjel, past tense gol, past participle gale, present participle galande, imperative gal)
- Alternative form of gala