gâdila

Romanian

Alternative forms

  • gâdili

Etymology

Probably ultimately from Turkish gıdıklanmak. Compare Aromanian gadil, Bulgarian gădeličkam, Albanian gudulis. Other theories also existed, including the Latin catulīre, or *cattellāre, a derivation from the aforementioned Bulgarian, or a Dacian substratum word of Indo-European origin, compare *geid- (tickle) [1].

Verb

a gâdila (third-person singular present gâdilă, past participle gâdilat) 1st conj.

  1. to tickle

Conjugation

References

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