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gale

See also: Gale, galé, galè, galę, and gałę

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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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

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gale (third-person singular simple present gales, present participle galing, simple past galed or gole, past participle galed or galen)

  1. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To cry; groan; croak.
  2. (intransitive, of a person, now chiefly dialectal) To talk.
  3. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To sing; utter with musical modulations.

Etymology 2

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From Middle English gale (“a wind, breeze”), possibly from Old English galan, possibly an unknown North Germanic origin, related to Icelandic gola (“a breeze”), Danish gal (“furious, mad”),[1] both from Old Norse gala (“to sing”), and thus ultimately related to the above word (etymology 1).

Noun

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gale (plural gales)

  1. (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.
    It's blowing a gale outside.
    Many parts of the boat were damaged in the gale.
    • 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xii:
      With my mother's permission and blessings, I set off exultantly for Bombay, leaving my wife with a baby of a few months. But on arrival there, friends told my brother that the Indian Ocean was rough in June and July, and as this was my first voyage, I should not be allowed to sail until November. Someone also reported that a steamer had just been sunk in a gale. This made my brother uneasy, and he refused to take the risk of allowing me to sail immediately.
  2. 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.
  3. (literary, archaic) A light breeze.
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Verb

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gale (third-person singular simple present gales, present participle galing, simple past and past participle galed)

  1. (nautical) To sail, or sail fast.

Etymology 3

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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 myrtle”), German Gagel (“myrtle-bush”), Icelandic gaglviður (“sweet-gale; myrtle”).

Noun

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gale

 
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  1. A shrub, also called sweet gale or bog myrtle (Myrica gale), that grows on moors and fens.
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Etymology 4

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From Middle English gavel (“rent; tribute”), from Old English gafol.

Noun

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gale (plural gales)

  1. (archaic) A periodic payment, such as is made of a rent or annuity.
    Gale day - the day on which rent or interest is due.

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  1. ^ Etymology of gale

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Afar

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɡaˈle/ [ɡʌˈlɛ]
  • Hyphenation: ga‧le

Noun

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galé f 

  1. corner

Declension

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Declension of galé
absolutive galé
predicative galé
subjective galé
genitive galé
Postpositioned forms
l-case galél
k-case galék
t-case galét
h-case galéh

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  • E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “gale”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

Awtuw

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Noun

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gale

  1. fish
    Nan gale tek-nak-ey po.
    We've been catching fish.

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  • Harry Feldman. A Grammar of Awtuw. (Pacific Linguistics: Series B, 94.) (1986)

Basque

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Noun

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gale

  1. eagerness

Danish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɡaːlə/, [ˈɡ̊æːlə]

Etymology 1

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From Old Norse to sing, crow, chant, from Proto-Germanic *galaną, cognate with Norwegian gale, Swedish gala, English gale.

Verb

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gale (past tense galede, or (archaic) gol, past participle galet)

  1. to crow (mostly of the sound of the cock)
  2. to scream
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Inflection of gale
present past
simple galer galede or (archaic) gol
perfect har galet havde galet
passive gales —
participle galende galet
imperative gal —
infinitive gale —
auxiliary verb have —
gerund galen —
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

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gale

  1. definite singular of gal
  2. plural of gal

French

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Etymology

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Variant of galle.

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Noun

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gale f (plural gales)

  1. scabies; mange

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Galician

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gale

  1. inflection of galar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Italian

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Noun

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gale f

  1. plural of gala

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse gala.

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gale (imperative gal, present tense galer, simple past gol or galte, past participle galt)

  1. to make a sound characteristic of a rooster; to crow

Etymology 2

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Adjective

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gale

  1. definite singular of gal
  2. plural of gal

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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gale (present tense gjel, past tense gol, supine gale, past participle galen, present participle galande, imperative gal)

  1. Alternative form of gala

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Adjective

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gale

  1. neuter singular of galen

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Polish

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Noun

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gale

  1. dative/locative singular of gała

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gale

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of gala

Portuguese

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gale

  1. inflection of galar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Turkish

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Etymology 1

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Unknown

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gale (definite accusative galeyi, plural galeler)

  1. (Antalya) Synonym of sincap (“squirrel”)
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Etymology 2

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gale (definite accusative galeyi, plural galeler)

  1. (dialect) Alternative form of kale

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Etymology 3

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From Ottoman Turkish غاله (gale), from French galée.

Noun

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gale (definite accusative galeyi, plural galeler)

  1. (printing) galley

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