different between gull vs goll

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: g?l, IPA^(key): /???l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English gulle, from Brythonic, from Proto-Celtic *w?lann? (“seagull”). Cognate with Cornish guilan, Welsh gwylan, Breton gouelan, Old Irish faílenn.

Noun

gull (plural gulls)

1. A seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae.
2. Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Cepora.

Synonyms

• (seabird): mew, seamew, seagull

Derived terms

• Audouin's gull (Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus)
• black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)
• Bonaparte's gull (Chroicocephalus philadelphia)
• Caspian gull (Larus cachinnans)
• common gull (Larus canus)
• Dominican gull (Larus dominicanus)
• flood gull (Rynchops nigra)
• Franklin's gull (Leucophaeus pipixcan)
• glaucous gull (Larus hyperboreus)
• great black-backed gull (Larus marinus)
• gull-billed tern (Gelochelidon nilotica)
• gull chaser (Stercorarius pomarius)
• gullfeed (Scaevola plumieri)
• herring gull (Larus spp.)
• Iceland gull (Larus glaucoides)
• ivory gull (Pagophila eburnea)
• kelp gull (Larus dominicanus)
• lesser black-backed gull (Larus fuscus)
• land gull (Larus marinus)
• laughing gull (Xema ridibundus, Leucophaeus atricilla)
• little gull (Larus minutus)
• Mediterranean gull (Ichthyaetus melanocephalus)
• mew gull (Larus canus)
• Pacific gull (Larus pacificus)
• Pallas's gull (Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus)
• red-billed gull (Chroicocephalus scopulinus)
• ring-billed gull (Larus delawarensis)
• Ross's gull (Rhodostethia rosea)
• Sabine's gull (Xema sabini)
• seagull (Laridae spp.)
• silver gull (Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae)
• slaty-backed gull (Larus schistisagus)
• slender-billed gull (Chroicocephalus genei)
• white-eyed gull (Ichthyaetus leucophthalmus)
• yellow-legged gull (Larus michahellis)

Translations

Etymology 2

Perhaps from an obsolete term gull (“swallow”).

Noun

gull (plural gulls)

1. (slang) A cheating trick; a fraud.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2 Scene 3

     BENEDICK. [Aside] I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it: knavery cannot, sure, hide itself in such reverence.

2. One easily cheated; a dupe.
3. (obsolete, Oxford University slang) A swindler or trickster.

Synonyms

• (dupe): See also Thesaurus:dupe
• (swindler): See also Thesaurus:fraudster

Verb

gull (third-person singular simple present gulls, present participle gulling, simple past and past participle gulled)

1. To deceive or cheat.
   • 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist

     O, but to ha' gulled him / Had been a mastery.

   • 1660, John Dryden, Astraea Redux

     The vulgar, gulled into rebellion, armed.

   • c. 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wallenstein

     I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service.

   • 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act IV, Scene I, verse 162-165

     […] speak your curses out

     Against me, who would sooner crush and grind

     A brace of toads, than league with them to oppress

     An innocent lady, gull an Emperor […]
2. (US, slang) To mislead.
3. (US, slang) To trick and defraud.

Synonyms

• (to deceive): See also Thesaurus:deceive

Derived terms

• gullcatcher
• gullible
• gullibility

Translations

References

Further reading

• gull on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Larus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse gull, from Proto-Germanic *gulþ?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?tl/

Noun

gull n (genitive singular guls, uncountable)

1. gold
2. (in proverbs) richness, money, livestock
3. gold medal, first place (sports, etc.)

Declension

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse gull (“gold”), from Proto-Germanic *gulþ?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?tl/
• Rhymes: -?tl

Noun

gull n (genitive singular gulls, nominative plural gull)

1. (uncountable) gold (chemical element)
2. (countable) a cherished thing
3. (countable) a gold medal or prize

Declension

Derived terms

• ekki er allt gull sem glóir
• glópagull
• gull af manni
• morgunstund gefur gull í mund

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse gull, from Proto-Germanic *gulþ?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l?/

Noun

gull n (definite singular gullet, uncountable)

1. gold

Derived terms

Related terms

• forgylle, forgylt

References

• “gull” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse gull and goll, from Proto-Germanic *gulþ?. Akin to English gold.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l?/

Noun

gull n (definite singular gullet, uncountable)

1. gold

Derived terms

References

• “gull” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• goll

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gulþ? (“gold”). Cognate with Old English gold, Old Frisian gold, Old Saxon gold, Old Dutch golt, Old High German gold, Gothic ???????????????? (gulþ). See also Finnish kulta. Ultimately from Pre-Germanic *??l?tóm (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *??elh?- (“yellow; gleam; to shine”).

Pronunciation

• (12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /??ul?/

Noun

gull n (genitive gulls, plural gull)

1. (uncountable, singular only) gold
   • Laurentius saga 65, in 1858, Jón_Sigurðsson, Guðbrandur_Vigfússon, Biskupa sögur, Volume I. Copenhagen, page 877:

     Vér viljum ok gefa þér gull vort, […]

     We also want to give you our gold, […]

2. (countable) a jewel, thing of value, especially a finger-ring
   • Stjórn 78, in 1862, C. R. Unger, Stjórn: gammelnorsk Bibelhistorie: fra Verdens Skabelse til det babyloniske Fangenskab. Christiania, page 254:

     Enn þegar sem hon bar þetta gull, […]

     But when she wore that ring, […]

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• gull in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gull in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
• gull in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

Swedish

Alternative forms

• guld (modern form)

Etymology

From Old Norse gull, from Proto-Germanic *gulþ?.

Noun

gull n

1. (poetic, archaic) gold

   Har du silver har du gull, / har du kistorna full?

   Do you have silver and gold, / are your treasure chests full? (song lyrics)

   Wilt thw wara tik sielffuir hull, / tw älska friiheet meer än gull (Old Swedish, poem by bishop Tomas, 1439)

   Vill du vara dig själver huld, / du älska frihet mer än guld (translated to standard Swedish)

   If you want to help yourself, you should love freedom more than gold

2. (colloquial) baby, darling, someone dear and cute (gullig), someone to cuddle (gulla med)

   mina små gull

   my little darlings

   Kom nu gullet, det är finfint väder ute

   Come on baby, it's a perfect sunny day

Usage notes

• The form gull is archaic or poetic outside compound words and fixed expressions, where it has taken the sense of beloved or favorable as in gullgosse (“golden boy”), gullegris (“darling, pet”), gullunge (“beloved child”), etc.

Declension

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse gull, goll, from Proto-Germanic *gulþ?.

Noun

gull n (definite gullä)

1. (uncountable) gold

Derived terms

• gullfinger
• gullskre
• gulltypp
• gyllerfeinger

English

Etymology 1

Noun

goll (plural golls)

1. (obsolete) A hand.

Etymology 2

From God.

Proper noun

goll

1. (dialect, euphemistic) God

Manx

Etymology

See Irish goil.

Noun

goll m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. verbal noun of immee
2. going

Synonyms

• immeeaght

Derived terms

• goll as gaccan (“going and grumbling”)

Mutation