gille

See also: Gille

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

gille

1. (archaic) 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 singular gille, plural gillean)

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)

Usage notes

• The regular vocative a ghille is often, even in writing, shortened to 'ille.

Synonyms

• balach
• laochan (especially in vocative)

Hyponyms

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

Derived terms

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-mo-ghnothaich (“lively, enterprising, dependable young man”)
• gille-mirein (“puppet”)
• gille-mùchain (“chimney sweep”)
• gille-oifis (“office boy”)
• gille-ruadh (“parr”)
• gille-tòine (“faggot, queen”)
• leanabh gille (“baby boy”)
• seana-ghille (“bachelor”)

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
gille	ghille
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse gildi.

Noun

gille n

1. feast
2. guild

Declension

Declension of gille
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	gille	gillet	gillen	gillena
Genitive	gilles	gillets	gillens	gillenas