gally
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
gally (plural gallies)
- Archaic form of galley.
- 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 200:
- In the Year 1746, an Indian of Buenos Ayres having been condemned to the Gallies at Cadiz, proposed to the Governor to purchase his Liberty by exposing his Life at a public Festival.
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Adjective edit
gally (comparative more gally, superlative most gally)
- Characterised by or resembling gall; bitter.
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXV:
- For by the Dart, which is likewise a pipe, is made a deep passage into the skin, and then by the anger of the Fly, is his gally poisonous liquor injected […].
Etymology 3 edit
See gallow (transitive verb).
Verb edit
gally (third-person singular simple present gallies, present participle gallying, simple past and past participle gallied)
- (obsolete, UK, dialect) To frighten; to worry.
- April 8 1700, Tom Brown, letter to Mr. Briscoe in Covent-Garden
- The next Day being Sunday, call'd by the Natives of this Country Maze Sunday, (and indeed not without some Reason, for the People look'd as if they were gallied) […]
- April 8 1700, Tom Brown, letter to Mr. Briscoe in Covent-Garden
Etymology 4 edit
Noun edit
gally (plural not attested)
- Diminutive of gal (“girl”)
Synonyms edit
References edit
- “gally”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
From a Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *golь, a noun formed from *golъ (“bare, leafless”). Compare Czech hůl (“stick”), Old East Slavic голь (golĭ, “twig”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gally (plural gallyak)
Declension edit
| Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | gally | gallyak |
| accusative | gallyat | gallyakat |
| dative | gallynak | gallyaknak |
| instrumental | gallyal | gallyakkal |
| causal-final | gallyért | gallyakért |
| translative | gallyá | gallyakká |
| terminative | gallyig | gallyakig |
| essive-formal | gallyként | gallyakként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | gallyban | gallyakban |
| superessive | gallyon | gallyakon |
| adessive | gallynál | gallyaknál |
| illative | gallyba | gallyakba |
| sublative | gallyra | gallyakra |
| allative | gallyhoz | gallyakhoz |
| elative | gallyból | gallyakból |
| delative | gallyról | gallyakról |
| ablative | gallytól | gallyaktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
gallyé | gallyaké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
gallyéi | gallyakéi |
| Possessive forms of gally | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | gallyam | gallyaim |
| 2nd person sing. | gallyad | gallyaid |
| 3rd person sing. | gallya | gallyai |
| 1st person plural | gallyunk | gallyaink |
| 2nd person plural | gallyatok | gallyaitok |
| 3rd person plural | gallyuk | gallyaik |
See also edit
- gajra megy/vág (unrelated, though sometimes written gally(ra) due to an assumed relation)
- Appendix:Hungarian words with ly
Further reading edit
- gally in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*golь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 16