different between gals vs gads

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ælz/
• Rhymes: -ælz

Noun

gals

1. plural of gal

Anagrams

• lags, slag

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /??als/

Adjective

gals

1. masculine plural of gal

Noun

gals

1. plural of gal

Latvian

Etymology

Proto-Indo-European *g?elH- (ablauted to *g?ol-). Cognates: Lithuanian gãlas (“id.”), Old Prussian gallan (acc.), golis (“death”), Old Norse kveld (“evening, end of the day”), etc.

Semantic development:

1. "to stab" > "to kill" > "death", from here the verbs gal?t (“to slay”), galin?t, nogalin?t (“to kill”), the same development in Proto-West Germanic *kwalm also from *g?ol-
2. "to stab" > "a sharp point, tip, end."

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?als]

Noun

gals m (1st declension)

1. tip, end
2. (figuratively) demise, death

Declension

Synonyms

• beigas

References

Occitan

Noun

gals

1. plural of gal

Old French

Noun

gals m

1. inflection of gal:
   1. oblique plural
   2. nominative singular

English

Noun

gads

1. plural of gad

Verb

gads

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gad

Anagrams

• S.D. Ga., dags

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *gad-, from Proto-Indo-European *g?od-, o-grade of *g?ed- (“to unify, to match”) (whence also gad?ties, q.v.). The semantic evolution of the term probably went from “matching, appropriate” > “appropriate, determined, specific time (period)” > “(church) holiday” > “sequence of church holidays in a year” > “year”. Since this evolution parallels that of Russian ??? (god), there may also have been Russian influence on the meaning changes of Latvian gads. Cognates include Lithuanian gadýn? (“time, period”) (< Belarusian ???????? (hadzína)), Old Church Slavonic ???? (god?, “suitable time, holiday, year”), Russian, Belarusian ??? (god, “year”), Upper Sorbian hod, hody (“winter holidays”), Czech hod (“church holiday”), Polish gody (“wedding feast, wedding”), Serbo-Croatian g?d (“name day, important holiday”).

Noun

gads m (1st declension)

1. year

Declension

Derived terms

• gadsimts
• n?kamgad, n?košgad, šogad, togad

References

Scots

Interjection

gads

1. Expression of disgust