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gale
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?e?l/
- Rhymes: -e?l
- 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 *galan? (“to roop, sing, charm”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?el- (“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.
- c. 1346, Geoffrey Chaucer, Court of Love
- Can he cry and gale.
- c. 1346, Geoffrey Chaucer, 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”), both from Old Norse gala (“to sing”), and thus ultimately related to the above word (etymology 1).
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.
- 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.
- 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xii:
- An outburst, especially 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.
- 1972, International Association of Seed Crushers, Congress [proceedings]
- (literary, archaic) A light breeze.
- (obsolete) A song or story.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Toone to this entry?)
Coordinate terms
- (meteorology): breeze, hurricane, storm
Derived terms
- gale force
Translations
See also
- Beaufort scale
Verb
gale (third-person singular simple present gales, present participle galing, simple past and past participle galed)
- (nautical) To sail, or sail fast.
Etymology 3
From Middle English gaile, gawl, gawwyl, ga?el, 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
Etymology 4
From Middle English gavel (“rent; tribute”), from Old English gafol.
Noun
gale (plural gales)
- (archaic) A periodic payment, such as is made of a rent or annuity.
- Gale day - the day on which rent or interest is due.
References
- gale in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- Gael, Lega, egal, geal, lage, leag
Awtuw
Noun
gale
- fish
References
- Harry Feldman. A Grammar of Awtuw. (Pacific Linguistics: Series B, 94.) (1986)
Basque
Noun
gale
- eagerness
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a?l?/, [???æ?l?]
Etymology 1
From Old Norse to sing, crow, chant, from Proto-Germanic *galan?, cognate with Norwegian gale, Swedish gala, English gale.
Verb
gale (past tense galede, or (archaic) gol, past participle galet)
- to crow (mostly of the sound of the cock)
- to scream
Inflection
References
- “gale” in Den Danske Ordbog
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Adjective
gale
- definite singular of gal
- plural of gal
French
Etymology
Variant of galle.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?al/
Noun
gale f (plural gales)
- scabies; mange
Further reading
- “gale” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- égal, Gaël, gela
Italian
Noun
gale f
- plural of gala
Anagrams
- gela, lega
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Old Norse gala
Verb
gale (imperative gal, present tense galer, simple past gol or galte, past participle galt)
- to make a sound characteristic of a rooster; to crow
Etymology 2
Adjective
gale
- definite singular of gal
- plural of gal
References
- “gale” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
Verb
gale (present tense gjel, past tense gol, supine gale, past participle galen, present participle galande, imperative gal)
- Alternative form of gala
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
- galent
Adjective
gale
- neuter singular of galen
Anagrams
- alge, egal, egla, lage, lega
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??a.l?/
- Homophone: gal?
Noun
gale
- dative/locative singular of ga?a
Noun
gale
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of gala
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roar
English
Etymology
From Middle English roren, raren, from Old English r?rian (“to roar; wail; lament”), from Proto-Germanic *rair?n? (“to bellow; roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“to shout; bellow; yell; bark”), perhaps of imitative origin.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: rô, IPA(key): /???/
- (General American) enPR: rôr, IPA(key): /???/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: r?r, IPA(key): /?o(?)?/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /?o?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
- Homophone: raw (in non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
Verb
roar (third-person singular simple present roars, present participle roaring, simple past and past participle roared)
- (intransitive) To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.
- To laugh in a particularly loud manner.
- Of animals (especially the lion), to make a loud deep noise.
- {1590 Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene Bk 1, Canto VI, XXIV, lines 6&7}
- Roaring bulls he would him make to tame.
- {1590 Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene Bk 1, Canto VI, XXIV, lines 6&7}
- Generally, of inanimate objects etc., to make a loud resounding noise.
- How oft I crossed where carts and coaches roar.
- (figuratively) To proceed vigorously.
- (transitive) To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.
- 1639, John Ford, The Lady's Trial
- This last action will roar thy infamy.
- 1639, John Ford, The Lady's Trial
- To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
- 1724, Gilbert Burnet, History of My Own Time
- It was a mad, roaring time, full of extravagance.
- 1724, Gilbert Burnet, History of My Own Time
- To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses do when they have a certain disease.
- (Britain Yorkshire, North Midlands, informal) to cry
Translations
Noun
roar (plural roars)
- A long, loud, deep shout, as of rage or laughter, made with the mouth wide open.
- The cry of the lion.
- 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- The Winkies were not a brave people, but they had to do as they were told. So they marched away until they came near to Dorothy. Then the Lion gave a great roar and sprang towards them, and the poor Winkies were so frightened that they ran back as fast as they could.
- 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- The deep cry of the bull.
- A loud resounding noise.
- the roar of a motorbike
- 1944, Ernie Pyle, Brave Men, University of Nebraska Press (2001), page 107:
- "Those lovely valleys and mountains were filled throughout the day and night with the roar of heavy shooting."
- A show of strength or character.
Translations
Anagrams
- Raro, orra
Swedish
Verb
roar
- present tense of roa.
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